President Trump on
Saturday gave an optimistic Independence Day message to the nation, declaring
that the U.S. is “coming back” and will be “greater than ever before” after it
emerges from the coronavirus pandemic --
which he described as a “terrible plague from China.”© Provided by FOX News President Trump prepares to address a crowd of thousands
amid racial unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic; reaction and analysis on 'The
Five.'
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“I
just want to wish everybody a really Happy Fourth of July,” he said in a video
message. "We’re on the way to a tremendous victory, it’s going to happen
and it’s going to happen big, our country will be greater than ever before.”
Trump
began the short message by saying that July 4 is about many different things,
“but more than anything else -- freedom.”
He
focused on the U.S. economy, and touted its gains in the stock market and
unemployment rate before the pandemic hit in March.
“We
were doing better than any country had ever done in history and not just us,
any country, and then we got hit with this terrible plague from China and now
we’re getting close to fighting our way out of it,” he said.
“Our
country’s coming back, our jobs numbers are spectacular, a lot of things are
happening that people don’t quite see yet but you’ll see over the next couple
of months,” he said.
It
comes the morning after he gave a broader speech at Mount Rushmore, in which he
targeted a rise in what he called “left-wing fascism” and called for a defense
of "Judeo-Christian principles."
"We
will state the truth in full, without apology: We declare that the United
States of America is the most just and exceptional nation ever to exist on
Earth," Trump said. "We are proud of the fact that our country was
founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and we understand that these values have
dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the
world."
Fox News’ Gregg Re contributed to this report.
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