Trump said he would deliver the speech despite the rain and storms (archive photo)
US President Donald Trump insisted on Saturday (local time) that he will go ahead with his Fourth of July speech even after storms and rain forced the evacuation of the National Mall.“Storms bring luck no matter what the occasion. They also make events a little more exciting! We’ll wait, I don’t care if it’s 2:00 in the morning, or one hour from now.
It seems like it will pass, they always do. The US President said on the Truth Social channel: “I will be there no matter what, but the ‘what’ is usually a good thing.”“It’s Saturday night, let’s have some fun, even if we’re out late at night. They say 11:00 a.m. for the speech. Who cares??? Remember two weeks ago when the big UFC event was 100% exposed to heavy rain, all week, and just minutes before the card started,” he added, justifying his reasons.
Well, there wasn’t a single drop, and the battles turned out to be among the greatest in history, an event for the ages. Our great veterans, especially the veterans, many of them out there, have been through hellfire, and it hasn’t stopped them.
It won’t stop us either! I’m not going to let a little rain stop our 250th route. I’m leaving the White House soon. God bless America!”
It comes as the Secret Service temporarily suspended security screening on the National Mall ahead of Trump’s Independence Day speech, citing dangerous storms, and urging attendees to seek shelter immediately.
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However, they later confirmed that the place will reopen soon. “The Secret Service screening area will reopen soon.
Anyone who vacates the site will be screened again. The Secret Service works to make the screening process as smooth as possible. Our bag restrictions and list of prohibited items remain the same. For programming information, continue monitoring.”
Visitors waited for hours to enter the event, amid tight security measures and scorching temperatures that reached 102 degrees Fahrenheit (39 degrees Celsius).
The record-breaking heat wave also led to the cancellation of many parades and other Independence Day events across the region.“It’s just part of the deal I signed,” Glen Solander, 60, a visiting software engineer from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, said while waiting at a security checkpoint on Saturday afternoon, according to Reuters.
Many attendees shared their experience from there during the evacuation.
News Nation’s White House correspondent shared a video in which the announcement can be heard.Meanwhile, the agency also shared a list of designated shelter locations for attendees, including the Ronald Reagan Building, the Departments of Commerce, Agriculture, and Education, the Internal Revenue Service Building, the Voice of America Building, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the National Museum of American History, the National Museum of Natural History, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
