Donald Trump hijacked America's 250 and turned it into a 'theatre of the absurd'
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This tone was set earlier this month when, on 14 June, coinciding with his 80th birthday, Trump commandeered the White House South Lawn to host brutal Ultimate Fighting Championship cage matches. He followed up last week on the National Mall with a formal kick off the Great American State Fair, effectively a Trump rally with military jets roaring overhead that was hastily arranged when previously announced performing artists withdrew over the event’s partisan nature.
Addressing the crowd, transportation secretary Sean Duffy railed against “those libtards that cancelled on us” while praising Trump as “the greatest president that’s ever existed in this country since George Washington”. The affair featured no Democrats and culminated with Trump’s familiar battle cry of “Make America great again” and signature dance to the Village People’s YMCA performed by the US Marine Band
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The upshot is that America’s milestone birthday feels particularly joyless, less a celebration of the world’s most powerful country than a case study in how a demoralised, self-doubting nation has fallen prey to culture wars and the narcissism of its leader. Trump – a uniquely divisive president laying siege to freedoms, institutions and truth itself – has proved to be the ultimate party pooper.
Speaking from a hotel across the street from Independence Hall, David Blight, a professor of American history at Yale University, said: “I don’t feel celebratory at all. I don’t know how to explain [Trump’s] vanity projects any better than anybody else. This is who he is. He’s not unlike Mussolini, who wanted to leave his mark all over Rome. It’s like theatre of the absurd.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/29/america-250th-anniversary-trump
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Is if the cankleking dies.
That will be worth celebrating.
