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Published 16:20 06 Jul 2026 GMT
Donald Trump made a bold claim about other countries’ perception of the USA during a lengthy speech on America’s 250th birthday.
Speaking at the celebration event in Washington DC on July 4th, Trump addressed a crowd of around 150,000 people for over 40 minutes and certainly didn’t hold back.
It’s well documented that Donald Trump likes a speech - he’s given many before and during his two terms in government, and they often contain something controversial.
After all, everything that Trump does is controversial - whether it is sharing pictures and posts on social media, getting involved in soccer politics, or criticizing his many rivals and opponents in no uncertain terms.
This time, near to the Lincoln Memorial - which has been in the news itself recently - Trump made a particularly bold claim about the way America is perceived around the world.
He said: “For 250 years, the United States of America has been the hope, the promise, the light, and the glory among all of the nations of the world, all over the world.”
Then, he added: “They try and be like us. Nobody can be like us.”
Well, that is certainly true - that second part, anyway.
Of course, Trump couldn’t let the occasion pass without putting forth his opinions on his own record, as well as the perceived threats from his opponents,
“America will never be a communist country — won’t happen,” he said.
In a bizarre move, he then called communism itself a ‘loser’ and added: “Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world, only to have that menace rear its ugly head right back here in America. We’re not going to let it happen.”
According to Trump, communism is a ‘cancer’ and ‘you have to cut it out fast’.
Veering back towards the whole point of the event, Trump went on to describe some of the virtues of the USA.
He said: “Unlike so many others in the world, in this country we have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equal justice under the law. Although I wasn’t treated that well, but we won’t get into that,
“This is only the dawn of the Golden Age of America, and on this 250th Fourth of July, we declare, just as they did two and a half centuries ago, that for our country, for our children, for the cause of liberty, we are going to take our country to new levels, to levels not reached.
“We’re going to make it bigger, better, stronger, and we’re going to love it even more.
“And I just want to thank you … and I want to thank everybody, and we love you all, and it’s an honor to be your president.”
At least he ended it well.
Exactly how his comments will play around the world, we’ll have to wait and see.
