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Military parades are so last year. Now, it’s all about fireworks.

President Trump tweeted a save-the-date on Saturday morning for a Fourth of July event he’s calling “A Salute to America.” The event will take place at the Lincoln Memorial and will feature an address by, as he put it, “your favorite President, me!”

D.C. already hosts a number of annual events over the July 4 holiday, including the Independence Day Parade down Constitution Avenue, a baseball game at Nationals Park, the Folklife Festival on the National Mall, A Capitol Fourth concert on the U.S. Capitol’s West Lawn and fireworks on the Mall.

On Sunday, Trump clarified that the “major fireworks display” he proposed would be the same as the annual fireworks show, which is put on by the National Park Service.

A spokesman for the National Park Service, Mike Litterst, confirmed that the agency is working with the White House to plan the event. “While no final decisions have been made, we continue to work on creating a Salute to America program that will bring Americans from all over the country together in celebration of our great nation,” Litterst said in a statement.

The Lincoln Memorial is managed by the Park Service, and organizers must secure a permit from the agency before hosting an event there.

The District’s representative in Congress, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) worries that Trump’s event would politicize the traditionally non-political July 4th celebrations in the nation’s capital.

“I’m not sure if the President is trying to make up for his inauguration fiasco on the Mall, but he seems to be unaware of the traditions of our nation on the Fourth of July,” she told WAMU on Monday.

Her comments referred to the heated debate over crowd size at the president’s 2017 inauguration.

Norton also noted that the Lincoln Memorial is “fraught with African American history” that stands in sharp contrast to the president’s agenda.

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech from the memorial’s steps during the March on Washington in 1963. Twenty-four years earlier, African American contralto Marian Anderson stood in the same place and sang to a crowd of 75,000 people after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let her sing in Constitution Hall, which was segregated at the time. Her concert was lauded as both an act of patriotism and a call for unity.

“The president symbolizes, if anything, the very opposite,” Norton said.

The proposal for a July 4 event comes six months after the Department of Defense postponed the president’s plan for a Veterans Day military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue after a U.S. official estimated it would cost upwards of $90 million, according to Reuters.

On Twitter, Trump blamed the parade’s postponement on the unwillingness of D.C. officials to foot part of the bill. The federal government typically reimburses the city for events like inaugurations and large-scale demonstrations related to federal issues. Major costs for the city for those types of events include salaries for local police forces, emergency personnel, and cleanup crews.

Mayor Muriel Bowser clapped back at Trump with a tweet that quickly went viral.

Mayor Bowser did not respond to a request for comment on the July 4 event. Her director of communications, LaToya Foster, said in a statement that the mayor’s office is “still assessing what will be different this year” about the District’s annual Independence Day events, “but we know these celebrations only truly salute America when they are inclusive, diverse, and welcome all.”

This story originally appeared at WAMU.

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