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For one night,<\/span> in the heart of deep-blue Washington, D.C., a fenced-off section of the National Mall became an oasis for members of the MAGA base. They had believed in President Trump from the beginning and carried him triumphantly back to power in 2024, and now they came to the grand opening of America\u2019s 250th birthday celebration in red-white-and-blue headbands, draped in flags, and sporting dangly blue AMERICA earrings. Doubts about anything related to\u00a0 Trump\u2014his abysmal approval ratings, inflation accelerated by the war he started in Iran, his clashes with Republican senators earlier in the day\u2014were, for an evening, drowned out by the roar of fighter jets overhead.<\/p>\n

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Last night\u2019s festivities were meant to kick off two weeks in which Americans could come together and commemorate America\u2019s semiquincentennial. But a string of artists had pulled out of events in Washington amid concerns that the celebrations would become the Trump show. And indeed, the evening felt like a Trump rally, with a montage of hits that his most die-hard fans know and love, including Trump\u2019s favorite tenor singing \u201cAve Maria.\u201d The president declared that America is \u201cthe hottest country anywhere in the world\u201d and rattled off a list of ways in which his administration continues to Make America great again. \u201cThe best is yet to come!\u201d<\/p>\n

The crowd agreed. At this moment, attendees told me, when so much seems uncertain, the most logical thing for them to do is to put their faith in the president.<\/p>\n

Karen and Paul Depperschmidt are living the retirement they always dreamed about\u2014 road-tripping around America, visiting national parks. They live full-time in Wilmington, North Carolina, and they made the six-and-a-half-hour trip up to D.C. for the Great American State Fair\u2014and the rally especially. The trip came with an added bonus\u2014the chance to share RV parks with international visitors here for the World Cup. They met a family from Brazil and three Scottish tourists who were en route from Boston to Florida. \u201cThe nicest guys, they are having the best time,\u201d Karen told me. \u201cThey love this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trump rallies they\u2019d previously attended\u2014Karen\u2019s been to two, Paul to three\u2014had been a blast, they said. \u201cEverybody\u2019s so nice.\u201d And, as lifelong conservatives originally from Texas, they wanted to show support for a president who they believe is keeping his word. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t like it, but he is doing exactly what he said he was going to do,\u201d Paul said.<\/p>\n

When I asked them about the cost of gas\u2014a particular concern for those living the camper-van lifestyle\u2014it didn\u2019t seem to matter: Prices at the pump are coming down, they said, which they knew would happen. More important, they told me, Trump was trying to eliminate the nuclear threat from Iran. When Paul finds himself questioning Trump\u2019s decision making, he reminds himself to back up; the president has information that isn\u2019t available to the public. \u201cI think he\u2019s earned our trust,\u201d Paul told me. \u201cI trust he\u2019s going to do the right thing, and he hasn\u2019t let us down yet.\u201d The couple said they appreciate the breadth of the administration\u2019s ambitions globally: across the Middle East and in China, Venezuela, and Cuba. In each place, Paul told me, he sees a president who\u2019s \u201cnot ashamed to use the power that we have economically to benefit us and, in the long run, benefit the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rally attendees who didn\u2019t want to stand shoulder to shoulder or who didn\u2019t snag a chair close to the stage settled in on picnic blankets or broken-down cardboard boxes on the sidelines to take in nearly two hours of entertainment\u2014including the U.S. Army\u2019s rock band riling up the crowd with \u201cSweet Caroline,\u201d Lee Greenwood singing \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.,\u201d and Alexis Wilkins, a country singer who is FBI Director Kash Patel\u2019s girlfriend, performing the national anthem. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told the crowd that the night\u2019s musical acts were \u201cway better than those libtards that canceled on us,\u201d to raucous cheers.<\/p>\n

As I wove my way through the crowd before the show began while many rally-goers were still making their way through security, it seemed that journalists and evangelists spreading the gospel were competing for families\u2019 attention. More than once, eyeing attendees to see if they\u2019d be willing to chat with me, I realized they were already speaking with a reporter. Multiple conversations were interrupted by someone hoping to share that Jesus loves us.<\/p>\n

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Suzanne Jones and Joey Ervin flew to Washington from Chattanooga, Tennessee, yesterday morning to celebrate their son\u2019s birthday. They managed to squeeze in visits to both the National Air and Space Museum and the Washington Monument before arriving at the night\u2019s festivities. Their son, Alex, was particularly excited to see the president do \u201cthe dance\u201d\u2014pumping his arms to the Village People\u2019s \u201cY.M.C.A.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones told me that one of her biggest concerns going into the 2024 elections was border security. She said she feels safer today than she did under President Biden, and she noted that the \u201cdisastrous\u201d four years under him felt all too recent. \u201cHaving a president, somebody that\u2019s protecting my country, that can\u2019t even have a speech\u2014that\u2019s rough. It makes me feel, you know, insecure,\u201d Ervin told me of Biden. He said that while he wasn\u2019t necessarily a fan of Trump\u2019s decision to go to war with Iran, \u201cI\u2019d prefer to do that than what we did when we withdrew out of Afghanistan\u201410 times out of 10.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not everything, the couple concedes, is perfect. They bought their house before interest rates dropped and prices skyrocketed in 2020, and said they wouldn\u2019t move now, because the market is difficult and doesn\u2019t seem to be getting better. \u201cMy view of the economy is once stuff goes up, it\u2019s not coming back down\u2014I don\u2019t care who\u2019s in charge.\u201d Gas prices, Ervin said, were high long before the Iran war. \u201cWe were in L.A. in 2024 and the gas prices were $7. That was before any of the Iran stuff started.\u201d<\/p>\n

Washington\u2014where the president has called up the National Guard, put his mark on local parks, and turned the city\u2019s monumental core into a construction zone\u2014is a bastion of opposition to Trump. But not everyone in D.C. is critical of the president. Jessica Greenfield and her husband, a D.C. police officer, moved to the city from Virginia in 2024. She said she\u2019s seen a \u201chuge difference\u201d in crime over the past year\u2014the streets are clean, and there are fewer carjackings and robberies. She credits, in part, Trump\u2019s decision to deploy the guard. \u201cI haven\u2019t heard of crime in our neighborhood in a really long time,\u201d Greenfield said.<\/p>\n

The 2024 election marked Greenfield\u2019s first time voting for Trump\u2014a decision that put a strain on her relationship with some friends and family members. \u201cIt\u2019s gotten tough with some of my more liberal friends, where they\u2019ll really try to debate with me about it,\u201d she told me. \u201cI\u2019m not really into that.\u201d Greenfield said she reasons that \u201cif I can have a nice street and walk my daughter and feel safe, that\u2019s what\u2019s important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even those in the crowd who weren\u2019t ardent Trump fans told me they appreciated that America\u2019s birthday was being headlined by a showman. And they felt lucky to be at the party. \u201cIs President Trump my favorite person in the world?\u201d Ervin said. \u201cNo. But he is a good president; he does a good job. So we\u2019re here to see him and put it on the bucket list: We saw the president.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Pant-Pant, Choo-Choo<\/a><\/p>\n

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