President Donald Trump ushered in the 250th anniversary of American independence on Friday with soaring rhetoric about American exceptionalism before veering into a darkly political speech with warnings about a sinister threat of communism that evoked one of the country’s ugliest chapters. Ian Reifowitz, SUNY Distinguished Professor of history at SUNY-Empire State University, said Trump has "one goal - make himself more popular and more powerful," as he pointed to how Trump has politicised the c