Donald Trump chose to put his fragile, maniacal ego on full display over the holiday weekend with a positively massive fireworks display meant to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. However, it seems the ordeal only left countless D.C. residents stranded indoors as they waited for the acrid smoke to clear.
That massive fireworks show was originally scheduled for 9 pm. Still, it was ultimately rescheduled to take place after Trump’s big speech, which didn’t begin until after 11 pm due to an evacuation order following dangerously high temperatures that swept through Washington, D.C. this weekend, sending the city into a record-breaking 103-degree heatwave. As a result of all of the rescheduling, the fireworks display didn’t wrap up until the wee hours of the morning on July 5th.
Visually speaking, the display was certainly spectacular, if not a bit overwhelming. Featuring something in the ballpark of a staggering 850,000 fireworks, launched from 20 different sites across the nation’s Capital, lasting an entire 40 minutes, the pyrotechnics event was dubbed the “largest fireworks show in history” by the big man himself.
However, it seemed to leave D.C. residents worse for wear when it was all said and done, as the over-the-top display left the air thick with a blurry haze of acrid smoke that blanketed the D.C. skyline, obscured the big finale, and led to a “Code Red” warning about unsafe air quality for residents of the city.
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