According to Axios, President Trump is reframing the nation's 250th birthday celebration as a political rally. On July 4th at the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument, he plans to hold what he's calling 'the most spectacular Trump rally of them all,' complete with record-breaking fireworks. The announcement exposes deepening partisan divides. A concert series for the celebration already collapsed after performers dropped out citing politicization concerns. The episode underscores the tension between plans for a bipartisan national milestone and the increasingly partisan spectacle now surrounding it—turning America's birthday into a Trump political event.

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