Trump launches America’s 250th birthday celebrations with partisan attack
by David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#76RHP)
In a speech at Mount Rushmore on Friday evening, the US president claimed a resurgent communist menace' posed a severe threat the country
Donald Trump has kicked off America's 250th birthday weekend with an extraordinary partisan attack on what he called the communist menace" in America, framing its supporters as the enemy of July 4th, 1776".
The US president spoke for half an hour on Friday night at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, the latest stop on his tour celebrating the milestone anniversary of the US declaration of independence from Britain.
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