CNN cut to a commercial about a half-hour into President Trump’s Fourth of July speech Thursday, the event having evidently not proven important enough to remain tuned in to despite several days of controversy leading up to it.

The cable network cut away as Trump was giving a salute to the U.S. Air Force, part of the event’s tribute to the five branches of the U.S. military, and a B-2 flyover.

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