Remarks by the president of the United States in celebration of Independent Day, July 5, 2019
[as prepared for delivery]
My fellow Americans. Wow, I mean, what a country. Look at this crowd. My people just told me, they told me this is the biggest crowd in the history of the Fourth of July. The biggest. There are so many people here that we had to turn like a million people away. They're outside the gates. You can't see them right now but they're there. They’re watching this from out there.
When I ran for office, I said this was the greatest country in the world, except that we weren't great anymore because of our stupid leaders. So I ran, I said let's get someone smart in there. Someone who made a lot of money. I made ten billion dollars. And we did it. And we made it great again, because I'm a smart guy. A lot of people say I am the tallest and the smartest president ever. My doctor said that, he said “wow, you could live to be a million. Great genes.”
But anyway, we are here to celebrate the oranges of our great country. And the Founding Fathers, they founded it. And it has the mountains, and the prairies, and the amber grainy waves. And casinos, this country has the best casinos in the world. Go to Vegas, go to Atlantic City, best casinos. I had a casino in Atlantic City, it was too popular. It was too popular, we couldn't keep up. Had to close it down. We have the most big league casinos of anybody, forget Europe, forget China. Big league.
And the Founding Fathers, they signed a little thing called the Declaration of Independence. Lot of people don't know that. Lot of people don't know about that. And it said, we're out. We're done. And we founded a country. They threw the tea in the harbor, because of the taxes. Lot of people don't know that. And then there was Thomas Jefferson, there was Andrew Jackson. And they did some stuff, they made things work. And Lincoln here. Take a look, the guy behind me, the guy in the monument. He wasn't that big, of course. Lot of people don't know that. Lincoln, they said he was maybe the best president ever until I came along. Super tall. Super tall, but not that big. That’s just the statue.
So we're gonna celebrate America tonight, we're gonna put on a show. The fireworks are going to be over there somewhere, they’re going to come up there, bam. It's gonna be the biggest fireworks show in the world. I told my people, I told them I want the biggest fireworks in the world and they said “yes sir.” And you're going to be able to see it from space. The people on the space station, they're gonna be able to see it. It's going to be that big league, because I said let’s do that.
Anyway, as Frederick Douglass said, forget the haters. We're gonna forget the haters tonight. Great man, Freddy Douglass. Lotta people don't know about him, he's doing a great job.
So in conclusion, America is great. It's great. And we made it great again. See that guy there, he knows it. He knows it. And we're gonna do more next time, so if you like this, with the greatest fireworks the world has ever seen, that's what we're gonna do more of when I win next time. And we are one nation, under God and indivisible, with liberty, so much liberty. So much liberty we don't even know what to do with all the liberty. The other countries don’t have that.
And they've been ripping us off, they did that under other presidents but not anymore, not with me. And we might have more tariffs, we'll see. We’ll see. Anyway vote for me again and enjoy this, let’s have some fun and watch the show.
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