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Trump turns America’s 250th celebration into a national embarrassment

July 4, 2026, should have been a celebration of the nation’s history, its contradictions and all of its people. Instead, Donald Trump turned much of the semiquincentennial into what often felt like an extended campaign rally with fireworks. Congress established the bipartisan U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission in 2016 to oversee the nation’s 250th anniversary, with the […]

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