President Trump gave an optimistic Independence Day message to the nation on Saturday, declaring that the United States is “coming back” and will be “bigger than ever” after it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic, which it described as a “plague.” terrible from China. “
“I just want to wish everyone a happy Fourth of July,” he said in a video message. “We are on the way to a tremendous victory, it is going to happen and it is going to happen in a big way, our country will be bigger than ever.”
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Trump started the short message by saying that July 4 is about many different things, “but more than anything: freedom.”
He focused on the United States economy and touted his stock market earnings and unemployment rate before the pandemic in March.
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“We were doing better than any country in history and not just us, any country, and then we were hit with this terrible plague from China and now we are close to fighting to get out of it,” he said. .
“The return of our country, our job numbers are spectacular, many things are happening that people still do not see but will see in the coming months,” he said.
The morning comes after he delivered a broader speech on Mount Rushmore, in which he pointed to an increase in what he called “left fascism” and called for a defense of “Judeo-Christian principles.”
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“We will declare the truth in its entirety, without apology: we declare that the United States of America is the most just and exceptional nation that ever lived on Earth,” Trump said. “We are proud of the fact that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and we understand that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world.”
Fox News’ Gregg Re contributed to this report.