“They’re taking that down,” says Keith Krach when I ask if the White House’s UFC stage will still be up on July 4, as Donald Trump had suggested. “I think they’re disassembling it right now.” Krach is chief executive of Freedom 250 and responsible for planning events to mark America’s 250th birthday. Well, partially responsible.

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The milestone called for the epic vision of a JFK or the soaring oratory of a Barack Obama. Instead it got a Trump rally