{"id":743308,"date":"2026-07-04T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743308\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:40:10","slug":"us-marks-250th-independence-anniversary-as-heatwave-disrupts-celebrations-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743308\/","title":{"rendered":"US marks 250th independence anniversary as heatwave disrupts celebrations – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump downplays heat impact on celebrations as he says ‘crowds in DC are incredible’published at 20:10 BST<\/p>\n

20:10 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Bernd Debusmann Jr
White House reporter<\/p>\n

We’ve just heard from Donald Trump on Truth Social, where he directly addresses the sweltering weather that the US capital is experiencing. <\/p>\n

“Despite the heat, which isn’t as bad as predicted, the crowds in DC are incredible,” he writes. “The love of our country has never been stronger.”<\/p>\n

He also addresses the aerial flyovers, which he describes as “at a level never seen before”, as well as his remarks later and the Reflecting Pool, which he says “looks great” despite “vandal thugs” he claims defaced it. <\/p>\n

It’s still about 101F (38C) outside in DC. <\/p>\n

Ahead of the event, various US outlets reported that the celebration’s organisers and the White House were concerned that the high temperatures might prompt many would-be attendees to stay home.<\/p>\n

Trump, it should be noted, has long been preoccupied with crowd sizes, on which he frequently comments.<\/p>\n

This stretches back as far as his first inauguration in 2017, when the size of the crowd became the source of considerable debate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump downplays heat impact on celebrations as he says ‘crowds in DC are incredible’published at 20:10 BST 20:10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-743308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}