Donald Trump is staging a 4th of July takeover | Analysis by CNN's zbyronwolf
Where usually there's a Smithsonian-sponsored festival celebrating foreign cultures and a concert broadcast on PBS for Independence Day, this year there will be fighter jets, tanks and a Trump rally -- plus protests and politics.
— Jim Acosta July 2, 2019 Planning for the annual event fell victim to last winter's government shutdown and a 10-day program was truncated to just two. It wrapped up over the weekend. A Smithsonian spokesperson said the change had nothing to do with the Salute to America and the festival will return to a 10-day format next year.
— Carole King June 28, 2019 PBS broadcasts the fireworks display along with that concert and they'll get an extra long and spectacular show thanks to Trump on the other end of the Mall.With donations from fireworks manufacturers, the fireworks display has been expanded from 20 minutes to 35 and will be larger than the bicentennial celebration in 1976, a Park Service spokesman told the Washington Examiner.
— Council of DC July 1, 2019 This being the US, where free speech is written into the Constitution, activists from Code Pink have obtained a permit to bring an inflatable likeness of Trump as a baby to a section of the Mall. And anti-Trump veterans plan to troll the President by handing out USS John McCain T-shirts.
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