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At @WhiteHouse #SocialMediaSummit, @POTUS says "this is a historic day" as never before have so many online journalists and social media influencers have come together.
"You reach more people than any television network broadcast by far," adds @POTUS.
Faint praise for @Scavino45 -- @POTUS says he wasn't so good at running clubs but he was always looking at his computer screen.
Pretty cool to have a front row seat for the #SaluteToAmerica here on the #NationalMall #LincolnMemorial #FourthofJuly #FourthofJuly2019
Under the Stealth Bomber flyover #SaluteToAmerica #LincolnMemorial #NationalMall #FourthofJuly #FourthofJuly2019
Eager crowds starting to stream in for the #SaluteToAmerica, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
Scene from the media riser about an hour before the #IndependenceDay #SaluteToAmerica event begins @ the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. (4G basically nonexistent due to the big crowd; will send more photos/video when possible!) 
I had the distinct honor to participate in 4th of July celebrations for the FIRST TIME—#SaluteToAmerica—here in Washington, DC (you may know that I'm Canadian). I saw a genuine and moving celebration of America and especially the US military. VIDEO & PHOTO THREAD commencing NOW👇
In 1852 abolitionist, orator, and former slave Frederick Douglass delivered his most famous speech: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July”—a blistering review of the gap between the ideals of America and its failures in practice. Should be the centerpiece of July 4 celebration
“Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us...The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”bit.ly/29lNffs
“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, ...
