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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Travel Pool Report No. 11 🚁✈️
Marine One was wheels down at 10:15 p.m.
Trump disembarked at 10:19 p.m.
He put his fist in the air and mouthed something inaudible when pool asked him to come talk.
He boarded at 10:20 p.m. with family members following him.
Ahead of POTUS’s arrival, his family members, who were on a different chopper, took a selfie together on the tarmac in front of the new Air Force One.
We'll be wheels up JBA shortly.
Nikki Schwab
Fri. Jul. 3, 10:24 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2073263942185435210
White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Travel Pool Report No. 10 - M1 wheels up 🚁
POTUS lifted in Marine One at 9:47 p.m. as the fireworks show was still going.
Nikki Schwab
Fri. Jul. 3, 9:49 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2073263409580130593
White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Travel Pool Report No. 9 - speech color
Trump remarks ended at 9:33 p.m.
Some tidbits -
Trump called July 4, 1776 a “big day.”
“I consider this a big day because I’m with you,” he told the crowd.
“These men could only have been made in the USA,” he said of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt.
He boasted how the country created a "new breed of citizen."
"That's you," Trump said. "Congratulations."
"In America we speak English because it is the language of our founding. That has been the language of freedom," Trump said.
"You do not have to be born here, but you do have to love what we have built," he said.
From there he warned of the "menace of communism."
Called it "death, tyranny and the pursuit of evil."
He called on Americans to "vanquish communism quickly."
“Don’t let them take too much of your time."
Also asked - with Thune in the audience - the Senate GOP to kill the filibuster and pass the Save America Act.
Trump called communism a "big loser," which had audience members cracking up.
He talked about America ingenuity including in "air conditioning" - a crack likely aimed at Zohran Mamdani.
Mentioned the Nobel prizes won by Americans.
"Well, they haven't given me one," he joked.
He referenced the "Gulf of America" at the end of his speech.
Nikki Schwab
Fri. Jul. 3, 9:33 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2073263017614037172
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