Trump launches US’s 250th birthday celebrations with partisan attack
In speech at Mount Rushmore, US president claims resurgent ‘communist menace’ poses threat to country Donald Trump has kicked off the US’s 250th birthday weekend with an extraordinary partisan attack on the “communist menace” in the US, 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 Britai…

