Re: “Trump will star in Fourth of July festivities”:
I hope everyone will choose to spend the Fourth of July this year in their own hometown or anywhere else except Washington, D.C. My husband and I look forward to watching the PBS broadcast of the “Capital Fourth” every year. We will not be watching any broadcast of the MAGA event in D.C.
My hope is the crowd turnout will be less than the 2017 inauguration. My husband’s response to this change from a unifying American event to a polarizing Trump campaign rally is, “Nuts!” This was a general’s response to a German request to surrender at Bastogne in World War II.
Evidently no one under the president is rising up against this change in an American celebration. It is up to the American public to register their indignation by not attending. Better than a large demonstration is just to not be there.
Elaine Fisher Randolph, Kirkland
