'President Donald Trump is billing his Fourth of July celebration as a 'Salute to America.' But the way things are shaping up, it's beginning to look a lot more like just a salute to him,' writes John Kirby for CNNOpinion
CNN national security analyst John Kirby, a retired rear admiral in the US Navy, was a spokesman for both the state and defense departments in the Obama administration. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
President Donald Trump is billing his Fourth of July celebration as a"Salute to America." But the way things are shaping up, it's beginning to look a lot more like just a salute to him. John KirbyTo be fair, Trump won't preside over anything as spectacular as the Bastille Day commemoration he attended in Paris a couple years ago. No missile launchers or Army tanks will roll down Pennsylvania Avenue. No troops will march past, saluting him smartly. Seems like the President finally bowed to concerns over the damage that the tank tracks could do to the pavement, as well as the exorbitant costs of securing and sustaining a parade route.
See tanks that will be used in Trump's July Fourth event 01:48"When a long train of abuses and usurpations," they wrote in the Declaration of Independence,"evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."It was a radical idea, new in the world and fraught with peril.
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