Fireworks fill the sky at the end of a pre-Inaugural “Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration” at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. The president is reportedly moving the annual fireworks display to this location.

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The traditional Fourth of July fireworks celebration in D.C. will undergo some major changes this year, thanks to President Donald Trump.

Trump told people over Twitter to “HOLD THE DATE” back in February, when he said that “A Salute To America” would be one of the “biggest gatherings in the history of Washington” and include a major fireworks display and an address by the president at the Lincoln Memorial. Some local politicians and Democrats objected at the time, saying that the president was politicizing a longstanding nonpartisan event. The National Park Service has organized a fireworks display on the National Mall for more than 50 years.

Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C.’s delegate to the House of Representatives, tells DCist she’s “so angry at the whole notion that anyone would try to do this. You have to be a narcissist to even think of such an idea … [Trump] believes he can wrap himself in the flag, but all he does is wrap himself in controversy.”

The Washington Post has new details about the event, which Trump has reportedly made a priority for new Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and has personally exhibited an outsized interest in, aides told the Post. The fireworks launch is now taking place in West Potomac Park, rather than on the National Mall. The Trump administration gave a heads up about these changes to the D.C. government, an official in Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration told the Post, though the logistics and cost haven’t been solidified.

Trump has long sought a D.C.-based event for himself and his supporters. He initially floated a military parade on the Fourth of July or Veterans Day, inspired by France’s Bastille Day. In August, he blamed D.C. officials for the cancellation of the plan, which would have cost upwards of $90 million. Bowser refuted Trump’s claims, telling DCist at the time that “Maybe he’s angry with his own team that they can’t pull off the parade by November, and he made the target Washington, D.C., and its taxpayers.”

Norton says that Trump is practically inviting protesters to demonstrate on Independence Day. “He failed to take over Veterans Day,” says Norton. “He’s trying again in the run up to an election year to commandeer July Fourth, and that’s like trying to take over Christmas.”

This story has been updated with comment from Eleanor Holmes Norton.