WATCH: President Trump Delivers Surprise Message To Daily Wire And YAF’s ‘Freedom at 250’ Event

President Donald Trump surprised the joint Daily Wire and Young America’s Foundation event in Nashville with an inspiring message on Friday.

“A very special hello to everyone gathered at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. I love Nashville,” the president said in a video message. “Thank you all for coming out to join the Young America’s Foundation and The Daily Wire, and celebrating one of the most important milestones in the history of our country, America 250.”

Trump told the audience of young people that they have a crucial role to play in carrying on the American spirit like those who came before them nearly 250 years ago.

“As we approach the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, young people like all of you have a crucial role to play in revitalizing and reasserting the unyielding American spirit that first inspired the cause of independence two and a half centuries ago. Sounds like a long time, but it does fly doesn’t it.”

Conservative leaders, lawmakers, and activists gathered in Nashville for the “Freedom at 250” tour kickoff. In addition to the president, speakers included Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee, Daily Wire hosts Reagan Conrad and Michael Knowles, and Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan.

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The president reminded the audience that the nation’s founding fathers understood that rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness did not come from government officials but from God.

“Together we believe in the principle that the government exists to serve its citizens and that our rights are given to us not by bureaucrats, but by Almighty God.”

“These ideas, embodied in the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, have animated the conservative movement for generations,” Trump added. “This year, we celebrate and reassert those foundations of American freedom because together we make America great again, and that’s what we are doing. America is back stronger, bigger, and better than ever before.”

Trump then thanked the young audience for their support and patriotism and told them to never stop fighting or winning.

President Trump has maintained a close relationship with Young America’s Foundation, inviting many of the group’s members to join him as he signed an executive order supporting the First Amendment rights of students nationwide.