President Donald Trump delivered a delayed Fourth of July speech in Washington, D.C., on Saturday night after severe thunderstorms forced the postponement of events originally planned for earlier in the evening. Addressing a crowd that had waited through the weather, Trump thanked his team for heeding the lightning warnings and vowed he would have spoken no matter the hour, even to a single attendee. His 37-minute remarks celebrated American exceptionalism on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and warned against the rise of democratic socialism and communism, continuing themes from his prior night’s address at Mount Rushmore. He brought World War II veterans and Gold Star families onstage before a record fireworks display of roughly 850,000 shells. The speech underscored the president’s insistence on proceeding despite the storms.