Former President Donald Trump’s planned rally on the eve of Independence Day has been canceled as officials worried it would be too ‘partisan’.

Trump’s rally was slated to take place at the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park on Saturday.

‘After the request was made, then there was contact with the Republican Party, they contacted us and then it became apparent that it was going to be a partisan political event, rather than just a patriotic event planned for that evening,’ park commission chairman Bill Tunnell told NBC15.

Park commissioners asked for an opinion from the attorney general’s office in late May, Tunnell said. Attorney General Steve Marshall’s response, obtained by NBC 15, stated that he did not have much time to issue a formal opinion but that the park could be used for political events as long as access was ‘available for all political parties and candidates on an equal basis’.

The park has been used for political events but a 2012 rally by Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum ‘was the straw that broke the camel’s back’, Tunnell said.

‘That’s when the commission went to the no partisan politics open to the public,’ Tunnell said.

The Alabama event was scheduled to take place a week after Trump held his first rally after losing the 2020 presidential election, at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio. During the rally last Saturday night, Trump called President Joe Biden’s victory the ‘scam of the century’ and it was marketed as the first of many ‘revenge rallies’.

While the Alabama event was crapped, Trump’s planned rally in Sarasota, Florida, at 8pm on Saturday still appears on his website. The ex-president will deliver remarks at the Sarasota Fairgrounds with doors opening at 2pm.

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