America's 250th birthday celebration increasingly centers on Trump

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America’s 250th birthday celebration increasingly centers on Trump

From a $250 bill to special passports to a presidential rally, many Independence Day commemorations will revolve around the president.

June 3, 2026 at 6:00 a.m. EDT Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT


President Donald Trump hugs the American flag while walking onstage in 2024 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Tom Brenner/For the Washington Post )

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term putting his personal stamp — and in many cases his image — on American institutions. Now his eponymous impulses have expanded to the celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.

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[The Blue Flower]

1. "Remember, thou art mortal"

I read that one of the Roman emperors was always followed in public by a servant who kept repeating these words as the crowds cheered. This emperor, like all who came before him, has a pull date. I believe he knows it and wants to destroy as many as he can out of vengeance for that reality. I guarantee, my celebration of 250 years of America will have nothing to do with this loser. I've been reading biographies of real American heroes (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Frederick Douglass to name three) to celebrate the incomparable, unprecedented experiment they brought into the world.

[2naSalit]

2. I'm planning on...

Staying home and mourning the loss of my rights and my country.

[MiHale]

5. Hate to say this...he ruined it.

Even the local fireworks don’t seem right this year.

I do realize that I shouldn’t let one putrid excuse for a human dictate a celebration of 250 years of America.
But the separation of ‘birthdays’ is getting harder to do.

How do you celebrate American freedom when you see them being eroded away every day?

How do you celebrate American values when you must dig them out of a garbage dumpster?

How do you celebrate American greatness when it feels like white, male exceptionalism?

America is a second-rate country slipping into rapid degradation. Yeah, let’s celebrate that.

[sop]

3. "L'etat, c'est moi" (translation: "I am the state")

Attributed to King Louis XIV of France, referring to his divinely ordained power of absolute monarchy, and that his personal will and the laws of the nation were completely inseparable. It's useful to note that Louis' absolute monarchy led to the French Revolution.

[AloeVera]

4. And look what happened to HIM.

Enduring much pain in his last days, he finally "yielded up his soul without any effort, like a candle going out", while reciting the psalm Deus, in adjutorium me festina (O Lord, make haste to help me).[123] His body was laid to rest in the Basilica of Saint-Denis outside Paris. It remained there undisturbed for about 80 years until revolutionaries exhumed and destroyed all of the remains found in the Basilica.[124] In 1848, at Nuneham House, a piece of Louis's mummified heart, taken from his tomb and kept in a silver locket by Lord Harcourt, Archbishop of York, was shown to the Dean of Westminster, William Buckland, who ate a part of it.Nuneham House[125] It is reported that a part of his heart and that of Louis XIII were used to obtain mummy-brown by Martin Drolling. [126]

-wiki

Mummx-brown, btw, was made from the flesh of mummies mixed with white pitch and myrrh.

It's possible we may have a brand new pigment, if history repeats.