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    Trump’s Fourth of July Takeover Was Inevitable

    The event is the latest expression of the 45th president’s creeping ubiquity.
    by Peter Nicholas Jul 03, 2019 6 minutes
    Source: Alex Edelman / Getty

    If you fear that President Donald Trump has been underexposed lately—if you missed the back-to-back news conferences he gave in Asia over the weekend, or the 45 tweets he’s sent out since his return, or the footage of him speaking with reporters from the Oval Office on Monday afternoon, or the Fox News interview he gave later that night—know that, on the Fourth of July, he will come out of seclusion.

    Trump is making himself the centerpiece of what traditionally has been a civic celebration on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., delivering an evening address in front of the Lincoln Memorial. He has wrangled the Pentagon into displaying heavy military hardware for the occasion. Invited guests will watch him from a reserved VIP section stretching from the stage toward the Reflecting Pool, with the White House, the Trump reelection campaign, and the Republican National Committee controlling the tickets.

    The event is the latest expression of the 45th president’s creeping ubiquity. A Washington tradition that, for decades,

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