On the eve of the Fourth of July, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Washington Gov. Jay Inslee criticized President Donald Trump’s planned celebration for the national holiday, calling it a self-aggrandizing partisan event which misuses public funds.

July Fourth is “a good moment of national unification,” Inslee told ABC News Political Director Rick Klein and ABC News Deputy Political Director MaryAlice Parks on the Powerhouse Politics podcast Wednesday, but added that Trump has turned it into a “matter of debate.”

The event is called “Salute to America” and will feature military plane flyovers, military tanks on display, fireworks and an address from Trump at the Lincoln Memorial.

“It should not be used as a personal aggrandizement. It’s something we should feel good about ourselves,” Inslee said of the holiday. Read more

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On the eve of the Fourth of July, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Washington Gov. Jay Inslee criticized President Donald Trump’s planned celebration for the national holiday, calling it a self-aggrandizing partisan event which misuses public funds.

July Fourth is “a good moment of national unification,” Inslee told ABC News Political Director Rick Klein and ABC News Deputy Political Director MaryAlice Parks on the Powerhouse Politics podcast Wednesday, but added that Trump has turned it into a “matter of debate.”

The event is called “Salute to America” and will feature military plane flyovers, military tanks on display, fireworks and an address from Trump at the Lincoln Memorial.

“It should not be used as a personal aggrandizement. It’s something we should feel good about ourselves,” Inslee said of the holiday

On the eve of the Fourth of July, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Washington Gov. Jay Inslee criticized President Donald Trump’s planned celebration for the national holiday, calling it a self-aggrandizing partisan event which misuses public funds.

July Fourth is “a good moment of national unification,” Inslee told ABC News Political Director Rick Klein and ABC News Deputy Political Director MaryAlice Parks on the Powerhouse Politics podcast Wednesday, but added that Trump has turned it into a “matter of debate.”

The event is called “Salute to America” and will feature military plane flyovers, military tanks on display, fireworks and an address from Trump at the Lincoln Memorial.

“It should not be used as a personal aggrandizement. It’s something we should feel good about ourselves,” Inslee said of the holiday