KEYSTONE, S.D. - President Donald Trump planned a fiery Mount Rushmore speech Friday night including denunciations of protesters he says are trying to “tear down” the nation's history.
He's adding the condemnation of those who pull down statues to a big fireworks show and his more traditional July Fourth praise of America's past and values.Hours before the event, protesters blocked a road leading to the monument.
Authorities worked to move the demonstrators, mostly Native Americans protesting that South Dakota's Black Hills were taken from the Lakota people against treaty agreements.One group parked three vans across the road and took the tires from two of them to make it more difficult to remove them.