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After a day defined by scrutiny of the president’s finances, Donald Trump next heads to Mount Rushmore on Friday for another round of 250th-anniversary celebrations.
In the Black Hills, South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden will welcome the president, who will also be joined by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
Together, they will take in a fireworks show above the iconic landmark, an event environmentalists fear could risk sparking wildfires.
Throughout Thursday, Trump spent the day defending his ethics record, after financial disclosures showed he earned more than $1 billion from his family’s crypto businesses last year.
The Republican told CNBC he has been uninvolved with the effort, as well as his other businesses, since taking office.
“I could know about it,” Trump said. “I didn’t. There’s nothing illegal.”
Democratic lawmakers, meanwhile, are accusing Trump of capitalizing on America’s 250th anniversary by misleading donors into giving money to Freedom 250, an administration-backed planning group, rather than America250, the congressionally-backed effort to organize the historic celebrations.
“Donald Trump hijacked what was supposed to be a unifying, non-political celebration of our country’s 250th birthday and made it all about him,” Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee said in a report released Thursday.
Key Points
- Donors were misled into giving to a Trump-backed group instead of bipartisan America 250 team: report
- Trump claims he didn’t know about crypto moves, which made him more than $1 billion last year
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- Hegseth honors members of National Guard in DC to the sound of protesters
- President ‘livid’ over crowd size at National Mall state fair
- US economy added 57,000 jobs in June – underperforming expectations
- Trump claims US achieved ‘regime change’ in Iran
ICYMI: Trump allegedly has staff furiously deleting social media photos about failing State Fair
President Donald Trump became so upset over photos showing less-than-enthusiastic turnout at his Great American State Fair kickoff speech that White House staff scrambled to delete the images from social media after he melted down at them.
The president was “livid” over an aerial image of his MAGA rally-style remarks to mark the opening of the shambolic event last week, which NBC News later reported as having drawn “nowhere near” the 45,000-strong crowd he boasted about on Truth Social, CNN reported.
The network reported that his angry reaction prompted his own staff to scrub photos of the small crowds from official and personal social media channels in a vain attempt to memory-hole the poor turnout.
Trump had turned the launch event for his Freedom 250 project into a celebration of himself as much as America’s 250th birthday after a group of artists booked to perform backed out because they’d been led to believe it had been organized by America 250, the bipartisan, Congressionally chartered group celebrating America’s 250th anniversary that has been sidelined by the MAGA-aligned Freedom 250 organization.
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