New Delhi, May 31 -- US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) responded to a wave of cancellations by artists slated to perform in Washington for the US's 250th anniversary by suggesting himself as a better alternative.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, "I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate 'Artists,' and give a major speech."

He noted that he would rally the country forward and added, "like I...