Patriotic pageantry and public protests marked the 249th anniversary of the independence of the United States as Trump signed the controversial spending bill into law.read more<\/p>\n
Patriotic pageantry and public protests marked the 249th anniversary of the independence of the United States. While Washington, DC celebrated the Fourth of July with an Independence Day Parade, thousands took to the streets and voiced their stance against US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Trump supporters joined the parade with MAGA hats on their heads, with some celebrating the Big Beautiful Bill turning into a law.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been the best year I\u2019ve ever had in business, I think, with the changes Trump has made. We\u2019re going to see our most profitable year ever, even with some of the higher prices that we have to pay in tariffs,\u201d one of the supporters told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS ADProtests took over the capital<\/p>\n
While the marching bands passed along Washington\u2019s Constitution Avenue, a group of more than 20 people gathered to demonstrate against Trump\u2019s policy. The protesters read out from the Declaration of Independence. \u201cI think it\u2019s important for us to go back to our founding documents, to our mission statement and refocus on that,\u201d said one of the organisers, Jason Hellenberg.<\/p>\n
When asked how he feels about the trade war initiated by Trump Tariffs, Hellenberg told CTV News that he doesn\u2019t appreciate what he calls the \u201cTrump trade war,\u201d adding that Canada and the US \u201chave worked together for hundreds of years, and there\u2019s no reason to screw up that relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, there were still Americans who were celebrating the day with a renewed sense of patriotism. However, both the protesters and supporters expressed to CTV their hope for a better future for their country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patriotic pageantry and public protests marked the 249th anniversary of the independence of the United States as Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[93190,93193,93192,93179,93197,93187,93175,93188,93199,93196,93189,93182,93183,93184,93185,93186,93200,93198,93194,93177,93195,93181,93191,93180,49,978,93174,93178,659,93176],"class_list":{"0":"post-239544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-4-july-2025","9":"tag-4th-2025-images","10":"tag-4th-happy-july","11":"tag-4th-july-independence-day","12":"tag-4th-of-july-picture","13":"tag-4th-of-july-pictures","14":"tag-american-independence-day","15":"tag-fourth-of-july-images","16":"tag-fourth-of-july-meaning","17":"tag-fourth-of-july-pictures","18":"tag-happy-4th-july-happy","19":"tag-happy-4th-of-july-2025-gif","20":"tag-happy-4th-of-july-images","21":"tag-happy-fourth-of-july-images","22":"tag-happy-independence-day-2025","23":"tag-happy-independence-day-2025-images","24":"tag-happy-july-4","25":"tag-happy-july-4th-images","26":"tag-happy-july-4th-wishes","27":"tag-independence-day-2025","28":"tag-independence-day-quotes","29":"tag-july-4-events","30":"tag-meaning-of-july","31":"tag-trump-iow","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-us-independence-day","35":"tag-us-independence-day-2025","36":"tag-usa","37":"tag-usa-independence-day"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}