{"id":139916,"date":"2026-07-04T18:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/139916\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:01:13","slug":"trump-seeks-to-put-himself-centre-stage-for-us-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/139916\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump seeks to put himself centre stage for US Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">President Donald Trump will headline US Independence Day celebrations on Saturday with a speech and a show that seek to place him at the centre of the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump has made no secret of his joy at presiding over the July 4 festivities, portraying the timing as a side benefit of winning a second term starting in 2025 \u2013 even as the Republican falsely claims he also won the previous election against Democrat Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Celebrations will be held across the US to mark the occasion, which commemorates the 1776 adoption of the Declaration of Independence that separated the American colonies from Great Britain. Americans traditionally celebrate with fireworks, picnics and red, white and blue memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The July 4 holiday, and Trump\u2019s role in it, coincides with political polarisation among Americans and low approval ratings for the president.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His efforts to remake Washington with pet projects \u2013 a White House ballroom, a triumphal arch and a revamped John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts \u2013 contrast with voters\u2019 concerns about the economy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ships parade under flyovers during the International Parade of Sail in New York on Saturday. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1f6be4b8-5440-43f6-a8ae-030c62e9477d_d5301715.jpg\" title=\"Ships parade under flyovers during the International Parade of Sail in New York on Saturday. Photo: AP\"\/>Ships parade under flyovers during the International Parade of Sail in New York on Saturday. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US hiring slowed sharply in June, according to Bureau of Labour Statistics data released Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump will headline US Independence Day celebrations on Saturday with a speech and a show that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[12,20934,5761,63765,20935,34363,10,65,11,64,24660,739],"class_list":["post-139916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump","tag-fireworks","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-heatwave","tag-independence-day","tag-parade","tag-potus","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-president-of-the-united-states","tag-president-trump","tag-us-250","tag-washington"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116863020975364066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}