# How will Trump's 4th of July address pan out? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 14, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-4th-of-july-address-pan-out/833954 "2019-05-14T16:28:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-4th-of-july-address-pan-out/833954/1 "2019-05-14T16:28:47Z")
So Trump has decided to[hijack](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/05/13/trumps-fourth-july-plans-include-presidential-address-report-says/1186852001/)that national fourth of July festivities on the Mall in Washington DC, and try to make it all about him and how he made America Great again. While it turns my stomach to see what should be a non-partisan celebration of our nation be turned into a tribute to our Cheeto in chief, part of me is curious about how all of this is going to shake out. I’ve always wondered the extent to which Trump actually believes his own Bullshit. The fact that he thinks the rally is a good thing makes me think that he may be drinking too much of his own Kool-Aid. Presumably Trump is expecting something just like his other rallies but even more so. Thousands of cheering fans, in front of the most patriotic background possible on the most patriotic day possible celebrating his greatness. 2020 here we come. But in actuality the crowd will be made primarily of locals who: (1) vote reliably vote Democrat over Republican by a[factor of twelve to 1](https://www.270towin.com/states/District_of_Columbia); (2) largely work for the federal government, and so still have bitter feeling towards their being used as pawns in his shutdown fight over the stupid border wall; (3) probably feel the same way as I do about having what is normally a nice day for a picnic, fireworks, good music, and a chance to feel good about their country transformed into an event celebrating a man that is the embodiment of everything that is making them feel bad about it. Needless to say, its not going to be the friendly crowd of MAGA heads that Trump is used to. To my knowledge Trump has never really directly confronted a group that was actively hostile against him, and certainly never gave a speech that wasn’t in front of a group that wasn’t composed primarily of his supporters. His standard tactic of going off script and throwing red meat to the crowd and feeding of their blood lust isn’t going to work as well when the target of their blood lust is him. So I don’t know what he will do. I see this as panning out in four possible ways 1. Trump chickens out citing security concerns, once it becomes apparent that most of the signs being held up are more against him than for him 2. Trump gets so flustered that his entire speech becomes a Palinesque word salad. 3. Trump assumes that everyone is shouting[boo-urns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y2R01k4SXI)and goes on as normal. 4. Trump follows his instinct to punch back, and spends much of the speech attacking the crowd. In any case under any of these we can assume that it will end with Trump tweeting claims about how huge the crowds were (biggest crowd on the mall ever), that they only came to cheer him and how high his ratings were. How do you guys think it will pan out? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-trumps-4th-of-july-address-pan-out/833954)._