Tag: 250th Anniversary

Trump’s Freedom 250 Fair Sponsors Failed to Disclose Their Donations

“I just think he’s totally wrong. They did a beautiful job. There were a couple of little things, but that was not a big deal. And everybody saw the vandalism, all you have to do is look at the tape, if you look at the tape. Plus, we have a witness, or two witnesses that […]

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Trump Caused Millions in Damage After Freedom 250 Oil Spill

“If the states choose not to participate with the state program, and they choose not to participate in securing the elections, we will make sure that we make those states a priority to look at who voted in their states, and hold them—the election officials—accountable,” Mullin said. “If the election officials, once we gave them […]

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Trump Is Literally Frying a Rare Copy of the Emancipation Proclamation

Trump’s 2025 executive order followed a similar attempt to target the ICC in his first term. That attempt was blocked by a judge in 2020 and formally rescinded under President Biden in 2021. This lawsuit comes two days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration would seek to dismantle the court, […]

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Trump’s 250th Is a Festival of Slop History

The narrative reaches a climactic absurdity in the treatment of the debates concerning religious freedom in Virginia. As Hall notes, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, authored principally by George Mason, declares “that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and […]

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Ten Great American Achievements We Can’t Take for Granted

National parks: Our national park system—more than 85 million acres of land—has long been the envy of much of the world. Even the Chinese government, no slouch at public infrastructure creation, regards it as a model. We constantly celebrate our great wilderness in America, from legends about the frontier to the “purple mountains’ majesty” of […]

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Trump’s July 4 Event Is Coming Apart at the Seams—Literally

When asked how she could prove that, Pirro said, “With an expert,” and urged the reporter who asked the question to come to the trial. The reporter incredulously asked if Hearn used his bare hands, to which Pirro affirmed yes, both hands. The reporter then asked if the pool wasn’t already damaged before. “Oh, he […]

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How Much Is Trump’s Insane July 4 Fireworks Show Going to Cost?

The timing of these trades suggests he planned to cash in, realizing that markets would rally after his announcement. Those weren’t the only suspicious stock trades he made last year, either. On August 18, Trump’s accounts bought between $250,000 and $500,000 of stock in chipmaker Intel, four days before the president announced that the federal […]

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White House Deletes State Fair Photos After Trump Threw a Tantrum

On New Hampshire, U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante found the administration’s request to get the state’s voter registration list infringed the Civil Rights Act’s provisions on federal election records. LaPlante also ruled that the Justice Department couldn’t find any real violations of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which created standards for states’ voter […]

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Trump Team Panics Over July 4 After Tiny Fair Crowd Sent Him Raging

“Administration officials from the Acting Attorney General to the FBI Director and the Counselor overseeing the Brennan investigations have been publicly declaring Director Brennan a criminal, not only before securing a conviction in court but even before a full investigation and an indictment,” Brennan’s attorneys wrote. “And, certain officials in the Department of Justice are […]

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Far-Right Host at Trump State Fair Lectures Kid on Salem Witch Trials

Kean said that months ago, he underwent medical testing at a hospital and was diagnosed with depression. While Kean didn’t believe he would need a long-term hospital stay, he said he was advised to remain put by doctors. Early on, he didn’t understand his condition, he added. Rep. Tom Kean says his absence from the […]

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Trump’s July 4 Fireworks Show is Monumentally Insane

“Over 50% of insured Americans struggle to afford seeing a doctor, and 1 in 4 insured Americans skip medical treatments because of out-of-pocket costs,” Melanie D’Arrigo, director of the Campaign for New York Health, wrote on X. “The actual fraud is Americans being price gouged on healthcare.” Many Americans on Obamacare marketplace plans struggle to […]

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Trump’s State Fair Celebrates America With Pancakes, Gagging

“Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to ‘review’ a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I never met (Decades old celebrity photo line, standing with her husband, does not count!),” Trump wrote. “This Case is really against the United States of America, and all it stands for, and should never be allowed to happen […]

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Americans’ Pride Drops to New Low as 250th Anniversary Approaches

Carroll, a former writer, accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996. When she spoke out publicly against him, he posted on social media that the case was “a complete con job” and a “Hoax and a lie.” In 2022, she sued him for both sexual abuse and defamation, […]

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The Trump Administration Keeps Promoting Slop History

These back-to-back slipups are somewhat unsurprising coming from an administration regarded by no means as a paragon of truth or factual accuracy. Examples abound of officials getting caught playing fast and loose with quotations. Recall Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s notorious delivery of a prayer that he claimed was based on the Book of Ezekiel, but […]

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Trump Says He Will DJ His Own July 4 Rally After Total Humiliation

“But there is a crisis with those stockpiles right now?” pressed Brennan. “There is a crisis with those stockpiles right now in private industry. You have testified to it in front of Congress.” “No there’s not,” Hegseth replied. “That is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle. And ultimately, we are, our stockpiles […]

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The Tiny Problem That Could Bring Down Trump’s Giant UFC Birthday Bash

Fighters in the octagon will be lit by an enormous, five-ton lighting rig that includes more than 175 square feet of LED lighting—a setup that White observed would be the perfect magnet for all sorts of flying insects. Beyond that, the bugs could cause a sticky problem between fighters. “In your nose, in your mouth […]

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Trump’s Embarrassing Guest List for Birthday UFC Match

So far, the guest list includes first lady Melania Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and his new wife Bettina Trump, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, and Eric and Lara Trump, according to insiders that spoke with the New York Post. Ringside seats for nonmilitary personnel are exclusively invite-only. The president has reportedly invited 1,000 […]

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UFC Fighter Expertly Skewers Trump’s Birthday Match at White House

This week, the DOJ’s director of public affairs Emily Covington shared a superseding indictment with the media that was supposed to have fixed the errors. Instead, Covington made a grave error herself by publishing a draft version of the document and, in turn, potentially violating grand jury secrecy rules, national security journalist Marcy Wheeler wrote […]

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Trump Is Plundering National Parks to Pay for His Vanity Projects

Just two days ago, Trump was bragging on Truth Social about having a “38-0” record, crowing about taking “out many bad Political ‘Leaders’ and Pundits including Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lightweight ‘Congressman’ Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Brad Raffensperger of Georgia, REALLY DUMB Stephen Colbert of CBS, and others.” Lahn, a farmer, drew a lot […]

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Commemorating Our History Under a Historically Ignorant President

Arguably the popularization of history telling beyond professional circles represents a further front in the democratization that the field of American history has undergone over the last half-century. Especially from the mid-twentieth century, historians have striven to make the telling of American history more inclusive and democratic. By the 1980s, when I entered graduate school, […]

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The American Revolution Is Not Complete

But these conservative orations were countered by the speeches of abolitionists, feminists, and labor organizers. Nearly all, Perl-Rosenthal finds, portrayed their fights for economic, racial, and gender equality as part of the ongoing struggle for freedom that commenced in Lexington and Concord. In 1836, the working-class leader Seth Luther cast the fight of labor against […]

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Trump’s Great American State Fair Loses Almost All of Its Performers

According to federal documents, the Gilders’ Studio will use gold paint that is very thick, heavier and purer than the gold paint job the same studio made on the Wyoming state Capitol dome seven years ago. Trump’s Department of the Interior is spending $95 million on beautification projects in Washington, D.C., according to NOTUS, all […]

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Trump Makes It Even Easier for Him to Ignore Protesters

On Truth Social, Trump barely mentioned the festival, posting a note at 8:30 a.m. Sunday: “I HOPE EVERYBODY AT REDEDICATE 250 IS HAVING A GOOD TIME. IF THERE IS ANYTHING I CAN DO TO HELP, JUST HAVE OUR BEAUTIFUL, BOTH INSIDE AND OUT, RACHAEL C.D., GIVE ME A CALL. I’M BACK FROM CHINA!!! President DJT.” […]

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Trump’s Latest Renovation Destroys a Historic Protest Space

On Truth Social, Trump barely mentioned the festival, posting a note at 8:30 a.m. Sunday: “I HOPE EVERYBODY AT REDEDICATE 250 IS HAVING A GOOD TIME. IF THERE IS ANYTHING I CAN DO TO HELP, JUST HAVE OUR BEAUTIFUL, BOTH INSIDE AND OUT, RACHAEL C.D., GIVE ME A CALL. I’M BACK FROM CHINA!!! President DJT.” […]

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Trump Gives Bizarre Message to Half-Empty Christian Nationalist Event

Across the board, voters disapprove of everything Trump is doing by majorities approaching 60 percent, according to the poll. About 59 percent of them disapprove of how he is handling his job as president, and 56 percent disapprove of how he’s handling immigration. 64 percent don’t approve of what he’s doing with the economy. Trump […]

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Trump Treated His Evangelical Supporters Like Dogs This Weekend

Across the board, voters disapprove of everything Trump is doing by majorities approaching 60 percent, according to the poll. About 59 percent of them disapprove of how he is handling his job as president, and 56 percent disapprove of how he’s handling immigration. 64 percent don’t approve of what he’s doing with the economy. Trump […]

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Trump Team Is Freaking Out About His Plan for Birthday Pardons

“Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said. The senator’s son then went on a rant against Jewish people, calling them anti-American and claiming Lawler and his “Jewish supporters” served Israel over America. Lawler argued with Paul and defended his support of Israel, telling him that he was antisemitic. Paul then […]

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Trump Team Is Panicking About Plan to Issue Pardons on His Birthday

“Oh wow, I’m so sorry for calling you a Jew,” Paul said. The senator’s son then went on a rant against Jewish people, calling them anti-American and claiming Lawler and his “Jewish supporters” served Israel over America. Lawler argued with Paul and defended his support of Israel, telling him that he was antisemitic. Paul then […]

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