{"id":17443,"date":"2026-06-24T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17443"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:31:40","slug":"trump-turns-america-250-kickoff-into-a-campaign-style-rally-on-the-national-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=17443","title":{"rendered":"Trump turns America 250 kickoff into a campaign-style rally on the National Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JOSH BOAK<\/strong><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump sees America\u2019s 250th anniversary as a chance to get the country excited again \u2014 about Donald Trump.<\/p>

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The president is hosting a rally Wednesday on the National Mall in Washington. He has said it will be replete with a military flyover by stealth bombers, military bands, singer Lee Greenwood of \u201cGod Bless the USA\u201d fame and a speech by Trump.<\/p>\n

It comes as Trump works to convince Americans ahead of critical November midterm elections that he\u2019s put the unpopular Iran war in the rearview mirror, with oil prices easing as the Strait of Hormuz has started to reopen in the wake of an interim deal to end the war with Tehran.<\/p>\n

The rally is designed to kick off weeks of celebrations about America and its 1776 founding as part of \u201cThe Great American State Fair\u201d on the mall, the national park that stretches from the U.S. Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial.<\/p>\n

But Trump\u2019s appearance onstage was only announced after several musicians \u2014 including Young MC, Martina McBride and the Commodores \u2014 canceled their concerts because of concerns the event had become politicized. The president stepped into the void as he hyped his own ability to command a crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History,\u201d Trump posted on social media about his plan to be the event\u2019s headliner.<\/p>\n

In a video posted Monday night, he said the event would be \u201cthe biggest rally we\u2019ve ever had,\u201d and declared: \u201cIt\u2019s our music, our playlist. We don\u2019t have a lot of people boring you with songs you don\u2019t want to hear. We have the hottest people.\u201d<\/p>

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Tuesday afternoon, country singer Alexis Wilkins, the longtime girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, posted on X that she would be performing at Wednesday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n