Trump's secretary says he disagrees with the supremacist act on the 4th of July, but says: 'in the USA, freedom of expression is allowed'

A passenger on the Washington subway surrounded by masked members of the Patriot Front, a supremacist group, on July 4, 2026 Cheney Orr/Reuters A high-ranking official from Donald Trump's government downplayed, this Sunday (5), the parade of white supremacists held a day earlier in Washington and highlighted the importance of freedom of expression in American democracy. On Saturday, as thousands of people gathered in the federal capital to commemorate the Declaration of Independence from the British Crown on July 4, 1776, hundreds of masked people, some with Confederate flags and others with emblems of the supremacist Patriot Front movement, marched shouting: "We will take back America." "What they defend is something I could never agree with. But one of the fundamental principles of the United States, which makes democracy messy, is freedom of expression," Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told CNN on Sunday. "There are many things that I see that, personally, I would find offensive and reprehensible. But in the United States, freedom of expression is allowed," he added.