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Trump announces that July 4th events in Washington were a tremendous success
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Trump highlights that the historic UFC event on the White House lawn broke viewership records, notes that Roger Penske secured IndyCar race approval in about 15 minutes, and states that the fireworks display achieved record television ratings.
"America is back and stronger than ever.". from the historic UFC event on the White House lawn, which was a record in the history of fighting on uh television. There were more viewers on that watching that than any other fight ever. To an unforgettable race through [clears throat] the streets of Washington, that was Roger Penske's group. The IndyCars were incredible. And Roger was here, and he thought it was amazing. He He said he's come here for 25 years trying to get that race approved. But we got it done in about 15 minutes. We got it all taken care of, and it was likewise like UFC, it was a tremendous success. To the largest fireworks display in world history. And uh I don't know if you noticed the television ratings. You know, we got We thought we're going to be rained out, but we wouldn't put up with the rain. So, we just said, "Let's just wait till it didn't rain." And even though the event got started at 11:00 instead of 9:00, we waited for the rain to go and pass. It got record television ratings. It was amazing. And it was the greatest fireworks display, the largest ever, but I thought it was also the greatest that I've ever seen, certainly, and I've seen a lot of them. But we welcomed hundreds of thousands of people to our nation's capital that night, that that day, that period of time was incredible. July 4th was uh not to be forgotten by anybody. So, this is a summer that showed the world America's back and stronger than ever, bigger, better than ever before. Think of it, FIFA, all those years of FIFA, and we did literally five times the numbers of the second most successfulView official source
