Trump hijacked the 250th party – and it blew up in his face ...Middle East

In the battle between President Donald Trump and Mother Nature, once again on Saturday night in Washington DC, the old lady triumphed.

The president’s plans to commemorate America’s 250th birthday with a speech that he had already warned the country’s television networks would be “very long” even by his own circuitous rhetorical standards were upended by heat advisories and a severe thunderstorm that forced the mandatory evacuation of the National Mall.

By 11:19pm, when he finally started speaking, the crowds attending the event had dramatically thinned out. Trump suggested that the audience had more than halved from 350,000 people he claimed were present at the start of the evening, down to 150,000 who he said had sought shelter in the Smithsonian museums that line the Mall and then traipsed back to watch the speech.

As ever when it comes to Trump and crowd size, neither of those numbers appears moderately close to reality.

In his 37-minute address, the President meandered constantly from his prepared remarks. He made absolutely no reference to climate change, despite the fact that his second term in office has so far been bookended by an inauguration that was moved indoors due to extreme cold, and America’s 250th birthday that was disrupted by Washington’s 40-degree heat.

If Americans were hoping for soaring, unifying rhetoric from their President on the 250th anniversary of the country’s now-parlous democratic experiment, they would have been disappointed. Trump misquoted the Declaration of Independence, claiming the document “tells us we are all made in the image of one Almighty God” (the text says no such thing).

He sought to weave his own record in office into the country’s rich historic tapestry, in one extraordinary section of the speech, connecting recent events with the country’s 19th-century Westward Expansion.

“You look at Venezuela, you look at Iran. We wiped it out, wiped out their militaries. Americans crossed the Great Plains, scaled the Rockies…tamed the wilderness and conquered the frontier and built the empire. It’s called the ‘Empire of Liberty’”, he claimed, citing a controversial Jeffersonian phrase that has been previously used to justify the country’s territorial expansion.

For those who somehow skipped the basics, the President described the Civil War as “a very big, big deal at the time” (which indeed it was). He claimed that “everywhere the American flag has flown it has been a symbol of strength, righteousness and hope”, and promised that Mars would be within the country’s sights “very soon”.

But this was not so much a set-piece event marking America’s birthday as a Trump stump speech, replete with the customary claims that more factories were being built in America than ever before (they are not), the country is receiving $19.2 trillion (£14.3trn) of inward investment (it isn’t), and more people are working in the United States than ever before (a meaningless claim, say economists, because the country’s population is constantly growing).

Some passages were simultaneously incomprehensible and inconsistent with other parts of his speech. “Over 250 years, the mighty nations and terrible tyrants, they came and they went”, Trump intoned. “But after two and a half centuries, this American republic still stands tall and strong. And we love each other.”

That will have come as a surprise to any “communists” who happened to be watching. Just minutes earlier, in echoes of the “American carnage” claims voiced during his first inaugural address, Trump suggested the country could soon fall to the hammer and sickle. In what appeared to be references to recent election wins by left-wing Democrats in the party’s primary contests, Trump called their rise “like a cancer…You’ve got to cut it out fast”.

“America will never be a communist country”, he thundered. “Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields all over the world, only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America. We’re not going to let it happen…the Stars and Stripes cast the hammer and sickle into oblivion before, and we will do it again if necessary”, he bloviated.

A president drenched in allegations of insider dealing, $2.2 billion better off than he was when he returned to power, and facing fresh claims about his efforts to cash in even on the nation’s 250th birthday, could not locate the voice on Saturday to bring the country together and heal political divides.

By the time it was mercifully all over and the fireworks began, the clock was closing in on midnight.

Literally, but perhaps also figuratively for the United States.

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