Trump’s view of the day appeared to be singular. “The sun shone, the sky was cloudless” were the first lines of Gay Talese’s next-day Times dispatch about the 1964 ceremony. There was no rainfall. Ammann was Swiss, not Swedish, and he had lived in the United States for decades before the bridge’s completion, having emigrated from Switzerland in 1904. And in fact, Ammann was among the first people Moses called on to be acknowledged with applause during the ceremony.
