We are rapidly approach the 250th anniversary of the founding of this country….and to celebrate Donny is making it all about himself and not this great nation.
There has got to be some way to rescue this event from the claws of Donny and his egotistical mind. A auto race, state fair, BBQ or a UFC match is not the way to commemorate our beginnings.
I was around for the celebration in 1976 and its was the way to celebrate the beginnings of the US of A….it was and will be heads above the silliness the Donny thinks will celebrate our country.
On the 250th anniversary of the United States, some details of the celebrations might seem familiar from the celebrations in 1976 of America’s 200th. People sip from cans decorated with the Liberty Bell and a big round number. Commemorative vehicles drive or fly around with founding documents. Federal dollars and private donations flow toward politicians’ goals. A president directs federal funding toward his pet projects.
A big difference is just how prominent Trump is making himself this time around. It wasn’t always headed this way: Congress created the United States Semiquincentennial Commission in 2016, during the Obama administration. In 2020, Trump created the 1776 Commission—an advisory body committed to propagating whitewashed American history—which Biden disbanded on his first day in office in 2021. Trump reassembled it in 2025, more determined to make the national birthday about him, his followers, and their shared visions of the past. While Richard Nixon sought to leverage bicentennial funds to motivate political support in the 1970s, Trump uses the semiquincentennial moment to promote himself. Trump is even attempting to align a semiquincentennial UFC match with his own 80th birthday.
As historian Marc Stein traces in Bicentennial: A Revolutionary History of the 1970s, a national birthday can launch a much broader, more inclusive, and ambitious national project. Yes, the bicentennial too involved politicians advancing their own aims, and it involved selling things, with a proliferation of commemorative objects. But the events and their backlash also helped promote broader goals. Stein writes of the urban planners who sought to direct bicentennial resources toward remaking cities and revamping tourist destinations. He writes of the contingent of the New Left that hoped to rekindle what they viewed as the radicalism of the founders, and of marginalized communities, who mobilized for a reexamination of American history and for reform in contemporary society. Sometimes these groups disagreed about the past and agreed on the future. Sometimes they disagreed about the future, despite shared ideals of the past.
https://newrepublic.com/article/209315/rescue-america-250th-trump
I will not participate in anything the Donny and his clowns have planned for this point in our history.
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
keep saying this: he cannot live forever. He’s fragile as soft boiled eggs. He cannot survive much more of himself. And we’re better than he is. Money doesn’t talk, it sometimes whines.
(It also helps to not read all the news every day. Not even headlines…)
Judy please forgive me but….look how long they kept Cheney alive and in office…you are right about the news….but I am a political historian and that makes me a sick individual that has to get his fix everyday. chuq
Judy, the problem is that he and his sycophants have so thoroughly corrupted the whole system that even if he were to leave office tomorrow it would take years, if not decades, to try to fix everything that he’s destroyed.
And who would follow him could be just as bad
That is true…look a Vance as trustworthy as a rattlesnake in heat. chuq
This was always going to be about him. Anyone who thought this was going to be a celebration of the founding of the country was a fool.
The whole thing stinks to high heaven. Apparently the artists they claim they’d booked for the event were not told what was actually going on and once they found out, they started canceling. At least three of the “headliners” have already canceled claiming they were deceived about what they were going to be appearing at.
Gf looks like milli, Vanilla and Bret Micheal may be the original list only survivors……I am sure Kid Rock the slime will help bail it out. chuq
Trump sees the 250th (and the soccer World Cup) in simple terms, as a money-making event all about him that he has to milk for all it is worth. I would advise everyone there to refuse to participate. Don’t buy the commemorative stuff, don’t go to the events, don’t cheer him on. Empty streets and stadiums will show what people really think of him. And 250 years really is not such a big deal. I have an Oak Tree in my back garden that is 280 years old.
Best wishes, Pete.
Pete it is for us Colonials….LOL chuq
Sour grapes? What if there is free ice cream? What then?
It would probably be one of those god awful mint flavors. chuq
On the plus side, six of the nine “headliners” have canceled
But to make things worse, we now know that trump bought stock in the UFC company putting on the fight right before he booked it for the WH.
Is not a surprise….his presidency is always been about profit taking. chuq