# President Donald Trump marked the 250th anniversary of the United States on Saturday with a campaign-style speech on the National Mall in Washington. After a storm-related delay of nearly two hours, Trump delivered a speech that mixed broad appeals to patriotism with pointed attacks on perceived ideological threats at home and abroad. Before Trump, presidents generally avoided in-person appearances at July 4 celebrations, but he has blurred the line between official commemoration and campaign-style politics. Aside from a similar address he gave in 2019, no US president has delivered a July 4 speech on the Mall since 1951.
Trump gives campaign-style July 4 speech for US 250th anniversary