“President Donald Trump said Sunday he personally overruled a recommendation to cancel the July Fourth ‘Salute to America’ event on the National Mall after approaching storms forced a chaotic evacuation of hundreds of thousands of revelers and triple-digit heat cast a sweltering pall over much of the day,” the Washington Post reports.
Trump Overruled Plan to Cancel July 4th Celebration
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