{"id":779743,"date":"2026-07-05T02:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779743\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T02:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:48:11","slug":"us-4th-of-july-celebrations-live-updates-trump-says-the-show-will-go-on-after-washington-event-postponed-by-storm-upending-americas-250th-anniversary-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/779743\/","title":{"rendered":"US 4th of July celebrations LIVE updates: Trump says the show will go on after Washington event postponed by storm, upending America\u2019s 250th anniversary celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: US President Donald Trump says the show will go on this evening \u2013 no matter how late. It\u2019s not clear how security will manage tens of thousands of people trying to get back into the National Mall \u2013 after a few drinks, in all likelihood \u2013 but he says it will happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStorms bring luck to whatever the occasion. They also make events a little bit more exciting!\u201d the president said on Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will wait it out, I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s 2:00 O\u2019Clock in the morning, or in one hour from now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"There was still a party mood outside the event, despite the postponement.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/5b988225baf429912043eab85d97618826e6f8df.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>There was still a party mood outside the event, despite the postponement.Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooks like it is going to pass, they always do. I will be there no matter what, but the \u2018what\u2019 usually turns out to be a good thing. It\u2019s Saturday night, LETS HAVE SOME FUN, even if we are out late tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington: US President Donald Trump says the show will go on this evening \u2013 no matter how late.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-779743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}