Former President Donald Trump questioned his successor’s patriotism throughout an Independence Day celebration in Florida.
Trump stated President Joe Biden “is perhaps the most unpatriotic president in American historical past” as a result of his administration canceled a deliberate Fourth of July fireworks celebration at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota attributable to issues about the transmission of COVID-19.
“We had fireworks at Mount Rushmore that have been so unbelievable … and it was great, after which, I noticed the different day that they refuse to permit it to occur once more. I feel they do it in spite,” he advised a Sarasota crowd Saturday evening. “It’s so ridiculous. It’s so unhappy.”
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sued the National Park Service after the federal division denied a request to carry fireworks on the Fourth of July at Mount Rushmore. Noem’s lawsuit was tossed by the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota on June 2, with a choose writing that the fireworks show was “interesting” however ruling in Noem’s favor would quantity to “improper judicial activism.”
Trump alleged that the Left desires “to cancel the heroes on Mount Rushmore,” jokingly saying they wish to exchange the likeness of President Thomas Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., with that of Al Sharpton or Biden.