800,000 fireworks planned for DC event
Trump's America 250 celebration in Washington DC is planned to include over 800,000 fireworks in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record.
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Trump's America 250 Plans: Fireworks, Heat Speech, and Teddy Roosevelt
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Jon Favreau lays out Trump's Fourth of July itinerary: a trip to the Theodore Roosevelt Library for its opening and a fireworks show at Mount Rushmore, followed by a return to DC for what Trump is billing as 'the most spectacular Trump rally of them all,' featuring over 800,000 fireworks in a bid for the Guinness World Record. Trump also announced he intends to give a 'really long speech' in approximately 107-degree heat 'just to show that I can do anything,' pushing fireworks past 11 PM Eastern. The hosts then play a remarkable clip from the Roosevelt Library where Trump delivers a digressive speech invoking the 'racehorse theory' of genetics, praises Teddy's son's bravery, proposes giving Medals of Honor to himself and his two sons — calling it a 'threesome' — and then holds a conversation with an AI hologram of Teddy Roosevelt about the Panama Canal. Jon and Dan react with bemused astonishment, questioning whether Trump understands how AI holograms work and whether he caught the double entendre.
Trump's 'Threesome' Medal of Honor Gaffe
Trump, speaking at the Theodore Roosevelt Library opening, proposed giving Medals of Honor to himself and his two sons — and called it a 'threesome.' The hosts question whether Trump even understood how an AI hologram of Teddy Roosevelt worked, let alone what he was saying.
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