{"id":744045,"date":"2026-07-05T05:09:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744045\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T05:09:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:09:10","slug":"4th-of-july-celebrations-for-americas-250th-birthday-across-usa-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/744045\/","title":{"rendered":"4th of July celebrations for America\u2019s 250th birthday across USA: Live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump wrapped up his remarks after 39 minutes at 11:54 p.m. ET, shortly before the calendar flipped to July 5. <\/p>\n<p>He gave a slightly truncated version of his speech, which had originally been set to go about 45 minutes before weather delays intervened. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 250 years old, we may be the oldest constitutional republic on earth, but our country is just getting started, because the best is yet to come,&#8221; Trump said on the National Mall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" data-modal-image=\"39891960\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-washington-dc-americans-celebrating-133336804.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump reacts during his speech at &quot;Salute to America 250&quot; on the National Mall on July 4, 2026.\" class=\"wp-image-39891960\" \/>President Donald Trump reacts during his speech at &#8220;Salute to America 250&#8221; on the National Mall on July 4, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is only the dawn of the Golden Age of America, and on this 250th Fourth of July, we declare, just as they did two and a half centuries ago, that for our country, for our children, for the cause of liberty, we are going to take our country to new levels, to levels not reached. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to make it bigger, better, stronger, and we&#8217;re going to love it even more. And I just want to thank you &#8230; and I want to thank everybody, and we love you all, and it&#8217;s an honor to be your president.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump wrapped up his remarks after 39 minutes at 11:54 p.m. ET, shortly before the calendar flipped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,57362,12,1918,56851,319561,1999,3,319562,21,19,22,20,25,194,24,5832],"class_list":["post-744045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-america-250","tag-donald-trump","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-live-blogs","tag-macys-fourth-of-july-fireworks-show","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-sail4th-250","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744045","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=744045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}