July 3, 2020

President Donald Trump is struggling to plan his grand spectacles without highlighting his fraught relationship with people of color.

He wanted to go to Tulsa, Okla., to relaunch his campaign mega-rallies — and ran into controversy over his decision to speak on Juneteenth at the site of one of the worst incidents of white violence against Black people in American history.

Now Trump is planning to visit Mount Rushmore on Friday to kick off Independence Day weekend with a glitzy fireworks display and a military flyover — and has run into strife and contention over his decision to celebrate at a national landmark built on land stolen from Native Americans at the same time the country is reassessing the offensiveness of such monuments.

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