By
Margaret Hartmann,
senior editor for Intelligencer who has worked at New York since 2012
And on July 5, he rested.
Donald Trump has been fretting about the crowd size for his July 4 speech on the National Mall for some time. When he opened the Great American State Fair on June 24, he begged people to “please show up,” on Independence Day. “If we have two empty seats, you know what’s gonna happen?” he said. “The fake news is gonna say, ‘He didn’t fill out the arena.’” Trump was reportedly “enraged” when he saw photos of the less-than-impressive state fair crowd, which prompted several White House officials to delete their posts from the event.
