U.S. President Donald Trump called on Americans to protect ​the freedoms the nation's founders envisioned 250 years ago against what he has portrayed as the "communist" threat posed by progressive Democrats, speaking on the eve of Independence Day at Mount Rushmore. "We stand beneath the monument of these heroes, a true group of unbelievable people, and we ‌rededicate ourselves to ⁠being a nation ⁠as big, bold, noble, and as great as these American giants, and that's not easy to do, but we're going to do ​it," Trump said at the granite mountain in South Dakota where the heads of four American presidents are carved. Show more Show less