Trump touts America as ‘nation of winners,’ slams communism in July Fourth speech

Attendees at the “Salute to America 250” event in Washington, D.C., were told to evacuate the National Mall due to thunderstorms, but are now being allowed back.

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Trump tonight condemned communism in his speech, contrasting the "freedoms" of America to the "talks from communists" that he said threaten them.
"Communism is a loser, and it always will be. The communist system is the opposite of the American system, and the communist system has never worked," Trump said. "We like to stop a threat like that immediately, and before it begins, it's like a cancer, you got to cut it out, you got to cut it out fast."
The president said that America's history showed that it would "never let anyone take our freedom away."
"Won't happen, and all these talks from the communists, they haven't got a chance, not even a chance. We don't want communists in our country — never worked, and it never will work," Trump said.
The president then listed a number of freedoms promised under the Constitution.
"Unlike so many others in the world, in this country we have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equal justice under the law," Trump said.
"You showed that tonight with one flag, and as our Declaration of Independence tells us, we are all made in the image of one almighty God, and a communist will never say that, that’s for sure," he continued.
Trump's comments came after he warned during his address at Mount Rushmore last night that the U.S. is under threat from a "communist menace."
While he did not name any particular political figures so far tonight or last night, the president has taken aim at a number of democratic socialists who won primary races in New York last month.