The spin is getting louder and louder, with far too many on the left pointing fingers at President Trump as to why celebrating this Republic’s 250th is a bad idea. It’s because of him and his ego as to why this will be a failure.

America’s 250th birthday could have been — should have been — a celebration to end all celebrations. The nation’s biggest birthday yet could have been an opportunity for both commemoration and recommitment, a festival marking a quarter millennium of democracy and a challenge to envision a bolder, better, brighter America for the generations to come.
Instead, we got a canceled Vanilla Ice concert, a half-painted Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, and a massive UFC arena on the White House lawn.

It is no surprise that few Americans are excited about — or even paying attention to — a July 4 celebration that President Trump has taken every opportunity to rebrand into a party for himself.

Given his talk of a MAGA rally on the National Mall and marking the nation’s big day with his own face on a new $250 bill, Trump’s bottomless ego has made it impossible for anyone who isn’t a die-hard supporter to enjoy what should be a shared cultural moment.

Oh, well — maybe we’ll get it right for the tricentennial in 2076.

No, it is NOT because of his ego. It’s because hatred and dismissal of our exceptional American history has become a feature instead of a pesky bug we can immediately squash.  Max, the author of this piece at The Hill, himself has a choice. Celebrate all that is amazing about this country and its founding, or refuse to do so because he dislikes the current President. In my opinion, it’s obvious that Max will not be putting up Betsy Ross 250th flags in his yard or at his front door. Why? Because the wrong President is in office. 

That’s where we are today folks. Celebrating ANYTHING about America’s 250th is BAD because Trump. It’s also bad because white men. This Unitarian “church” in Nantucket, Massachusetts has decided the Declaration of Independence and our Bill of Rights are so awful, they can no longer be read in public due to the problem of … “whiteness.” 

A liberal church on swanky vacation island Nantucket nixed its Fourth of July readings for the first time in 25 years in “political protest” over the Supreme Court’s voting rights ruling — and its congregants’ “whiteness.”

The Nantucket Unitarian Universalists has read the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights inside its church every Fourth of July for the last 25 years.

This year, the church’s board of trustees and presiding Rev. Erin Splaine published a letter announcing the cancelation of the readings just one month before America’s 250th birthday.

The church blamed the revision on the Supreme Court’s “gutting” of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and “an on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness,” according to the letter.

You know, if it weren’t for those “white” Founding Fathers, that preacher and her flock wouldn’t be Unitarians, they’d be Church of England. You see, the beauty of our Declaration of Independence and that amazing Constitution and Bill of Rights gifts them the freedom to be pandering idiots. 

Our Bill of Rights gives all American citizens the right to freedom of speech, no matter how vile or stupid it is. It also emphatically tells our government that not ONE single religion can be mandated over another. Freedom OF Religion is our right and a gift from those pesky “white” Founding Fathers. 

Yet here they are, twisting themselves into emotional pretzels, telling themselves and the world that the color of their skin is the reason why celebrating America’s 250th is the problem. 

No, YOU and your emotional support pearl clutching friends are the problem. Each one of those Unitarians has been handed the right of speech and freedom of religion because of our Founders. Their refusal to embrace that is THEIR problem. Not our Founders problem, and not mine. 

Back to Max and his blaming Trump for the debacle of the 250th. Yes, President Trump has an exceptionally large ego. So did every single President. But to decide to whine about how celebrating 250 years of American freedom, exceptionalism, courage, and greatness because it’s a President of the wrong political party is a Max problem. 

However, it’s also a political problem that we are watching play out across this country. It’s something that has been brewing since 1976. Patriotism is a problem now. It’s a problem when the conservative right Republicans celebrate it. It’s such a problem that the REASON for our freedoms are no longer taught in depth in our schools. I know for a fact that there are several school districts who’ve spent zero time this school year teaching anything about America, our founding, and why the 250th is so amazing and important. What a horrible disservice that is to our nation’s youth. No wonder polling among many of our young adults shows their strong dislike of this country, which we watch play out in real time during the many protests around the country. 

America’s 250th is not a problem because of President Trump. It is a problem because far too many across this great land don’t know, don’t want to know, or have not been taught that our Founding Fathers and all those who fought for independence knew how very important our freedom truly is. 

Evidently, according to the New Yorker, to be patriotic is to be "problematic". You see, if you think this nation has been an instrument of good in the world, far more than one of evil, then you are a "problem". If you are patriotic, then obviously there is something wrong…

— Patrick O'Kelley (@PatrickOKelley6) June 3, 2026

Our FREEDOM is what we absolutely should be celebrating 24/7 every day of every year. 

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