Trump opens US 250th birthday party with rally-style speech

The address kicked off the Great American State Fair, a free festival marking the semiquincentennial anniversary of the Declaration of Independence

U.S. President Donald Trump salutes during the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 25, 2026.

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