Trump hails American exceptionalism before railing at communism at 250th celebration

On America's two hundred fiftieth anniversary, President Trump used today's Fourth of July address to highlight American exceptionalism while warning against what he called the sinister threat of communism. According to France Twenty-Four, the rhetoric echoed the nineteen fifty Red Scare era, when alleged communists were persecuted and blacklisted from jobs across the nation.

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