Trump marks Caesar Rodney’s 80-mile ride at Freedom Plaza exhibition
The president recounts how the Delaware delegate braved a thunderstorm to cast the decisive vote for Independence, now honored by a statue at the new Spirit of '76 exhibit in Washington.
The president recounts how the Delaware delegate braved a thunderstorm to cast the decisive vote for Independence, now honored by a statue at the new Spirit of '76 exhibit in Washington.
WHITE HOUSE — Donald J. Trump has honored Caesar Rodney’s decisive Independence vote on a Truth Social post on July 2, 2026 at 8:57 PM EST.
Here is the full post (see truthsocial): “250 years ago, on the eve of America’s momentous vote for Independence, Caesar Rodney received word that he was urgently needed to break a deadlock among the Delegates to the Second Continental Congress. Although he suffered from asthma and facial cancer, Rodney immediately set forth on a 80-mile overnight journey by horseback from Dover, Delaware, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Enduring a raging thunderstorm, he arrived 250 years ago this very day, July 2, 1776, to cast his decisive vote, and secure America’s glorious destiny of Freedom and Independence. An equestrian statue honoring Rodney’s key contribution now anchors Spirit of 76’ at Freedom Plaza, a new Exhibition in Washington, D.C., honoring the heroes and martyrs of the American Revolution. Go and see!”
Trump described the Delaware delegate riding overnight from Dover to Philadelphia despite asthma and facial cancer to break a deadlock in the Second Continental Congress. He said Rodney arrived through a raging thunderstorm on July 2, 1776, to cast the vote that secured American Independence. Trump directed the public to an equestrian statue of Rodney that now anchors the Spirit of ’76 exhibition at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C.
Equestrian statue of Caesar Rodney posed at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., on 07/02/2026. The statue anchors the "Spirit of '76" exhibition, which President Donald J.
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The post lands as the United States observes the Semiquincentennial, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (see washingtonpost.com). Records show that Congress adopted the independence section of the Lee Resolution on July 2, 1776, then approved the Declaration itself on July 4 (see archives.gov). Fifty-six delegates eventually signed the engrossed document, with signing beginning on August 2, 1776 (see archives.gov).
In the last 30 days, 29 of 523 Trump posts were on topic “Culture”.
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