Not good -Trump launches America's 250th birthday celebrations with partisan attack

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/trump-launches-americas-250th-birthday-celebrations-with-partisan-attack

The president has been widely criticised for weaponising the semiquincentennial to rewrite history, promoting a narrative focused on white Christian men such as Washington and Jefferson while neglecting to acknowledge that both were slaveholders. He used Friday’s speech to attack progressive narratives.

“As for those who peddle Marxist lies about our heritage, tell our children that we live on stolen land or that our heroes were oppressors, they’re doing something much worse than slandering our past,” said Trump. “They are slandering and attacking our future – not going to let that happen.”

Yet he was speaking in the Black Hills, which the US government illegally seized from the Sioux Nation in 1877 after Congress forced the tribe to cede land it had been guaranteed under treaty.

Trump went on to equate the alleged communist threat with immigrants whom he suggested could be expelled. Pledging to “vanquish communism quickly” and “send them into exile”, he told the cheering crowd: “We will send them quickly away, and we will continue to build our country bigger and better and stronger than ever before. America will never be a communist country.”
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A sick divisive racist monster does not quite describe him

[Solly Mack]

1. White supremacists are going to spout lies. They have to lie to keep the lie of white supremacy going.

[newdeal2]

2. I've come to the realization that we need to more forcefully speak out against MAGA

Label them as traitors and more and make it a dirty word. I see young people already indoctrinated in this crap because they think it's strong or moral - we have to break that illusion somehow.

[kentuck]

3. No day is better than the Fourth of July to divide the people with hateful and divisive speeches...

...But he has shown no respect for anyone that might disagree with his greedy motives.

[Blue Owl]

4. In-depends-ence Day for Diarrhea Donny and his dirty diaper

Still 10 hours left in the day for his Nazi ass to croak… C’mon karma score one for Lady Liberty!

[malaise]

6. LOL

😂

[karynnj]

5. Isn't immigrant Melania the daughter of 2 immigrant communists?

Unlike the people he wants to portray as communists.

[SamuelTheThird]

7. Jefferson and Washington were not christian men

Though they attended church socially, they were Deists.

[Biophilic]

8. Did anyone actually expect anything more? trump is consistent in his hatred and fear.

[Renew Deal]

9. Trump loves communists like Xi, Putin, and Un.

Maybe he only loves foreign communists.

[bif]

10. Did you expect the rapist to act civilized?

[spanone]

11. The divider-in-chief.

K&R