Rarely listens to Donald Trump declare himself “content” for not having won a second term in 2020 (although he still does not recognize that he lost to Joe Biden). But if the return to White House After the victory in 2024 he has given him a joy, even as he says “on the one hand”, it is because it allows him to be in power when USA It is prepared to celebrate, on July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the country’s declaration of independence.
Trump has put himself in the epicenter of the celebrations towards the marked date. He did it on June 14, when he organized on his birthday a military parade in Washington to mark the 250 years of the birth of the army. He did this Thursday, with an act in Iowa which ended up becoming a mixture of official departure pistol to the phase and rally to celebrate the approval of their controversial fiscal law. And this Friday I was going to sign that piece of legislation in the White House, where it has installed a huge mast of 27 meters high to wave the flag of the bars and stars, before the classic party with hamburgers, hot dogs and fireworks.
Wave of protests
Other parties in the country anticipated much less populated. In several communities of Immigrants shaken by government’s raids, such as Los Angeles and other areas of the south of Californiasome of the traditional barbecues and street celebrations were suspended.
At the same time, about 300 had organized throughout the weekend protests throughout the country under the slogan “USA Free “, which anticipated less numerous than those of” Reyes, not “of June 14 and those prepared for July 17, but remind the Republican President of the persistence of a opposition Citizen in a country where the pride of being American, according to a recent Gallup survey, is at the lowest level since it began to be measured in 2001. If then 87% said extremely or very proud to be American, now the figure has fallen to 58%. The previous lower record, 63%, was marked in 2020, also when Trump was in the Oval Office.
They have a “historical” demand against Trump for migratory raids in Los Angeles / AP
Patriotic and rewriting euphoria of history
Trump does not let those numbers affect him, or protests. Especially after the last two weeks in which he has added the attack on Irana judgment of Supreme Court that reinforces its power even before the federal judiciary and the approval of the Full Lawl, has entered this festive weekend in a state of patriotic euphoriamore than appropriate for its promise to take the country to “a New era of greatness ” and to mark the 250 anniversary of Independence, which will arrive the same summer in which the US hosts the Football World Cup.
As usual, Trump wants to take advantage of the phases to exhibit the military and economic power from the US; He already raises a debate about what culture is; is shooting the politicization and carrying marketing to unpublished dimensions and lifts blisters with its usual Recriture of history from a perspective in which he erases the darkest and most problematic points. In fact, in March he signed an executive order, entitled ‘Restore the truth and sanity in American history’, which guides his effort to look at all that story from an exclusively positive prism, in which he wants to raise statues of confederate generals that fought in defense of the slavery or eliminate recognition linked to gender, razao diversityequity or inclusion.
Celebration plans
In Iowa, on the lands that host the State Fair every year, fifth -signs in the 50 states of the country, Trump on Thursday announced several of the plans that are already underway to mark the semiquintennial: half of half of the US millennium. One is the celebration of the Great American State Fairwhich would carry programming to all state fairs throughout the country (although not all have been added yet) and would end up in Washington Mall. Another, the organization in the White House With “up to 25,000 spectators” of a fight from the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the League of martial arts Mixed from your friend Dana White.
Trump also wants to have the National Garden of American Heroes, with 250 statues whose inclusion must approve, with characters such as Ronald Reagan, Milton Friedman, Jackie Robinson o Whitney Houston.
Party politicization
Behind all preparations, for which alliances are being developed with institutions, historians and influencers conservativethere are two organisms. One is a working group in the White House, the Task Force 250, which established in executive order a week after returning to the presidency and whose front he has been personally put.
US President Donald Trump greets during Sunday’s military parade, which coincided with his 79th anniversary. / Associated Press
The other is the America250 commission, which was established in Congress in 2016 when Barack Obama He was president. Composed of eight legislators and 16 citizens, that commission has been shaken by the controversy from the first moment and has dragged from a complaint for discrimination even a complaint and criticisms of a toxic environment, but with the republican It has been adding politicization problems that move it away from the idea to be a non -partisan organism.
The executive director is Ariel Abergela 25 -year -old who was a fellow in the first Trump administration and briefly acted as spokesman for Melania Trump and that after graduating in 2021 he was producer of Fox News. Trump has also included Justin Caporaleone of its organizers of campaign rallies (and prior to Assault on the Capitol) that he was already behind the June military parade, in which messages from corporate sponsors appeared such as Coinbasewith Amazon their UFC They are also donors for acts of the 250th anniversary.
In the America250 commission it is also Chris LaCivitawith Susie Wiles He was in charge of Trump’s last presidential campaign and that in the face of politicization criticism, he said: “There are a handful of bitter and complaints that cannot yet assume that Trump was chosen. If they don’t like it, they can go to do something else.”
Among the groups and people with whom it is collaborated for the preparation of materials and programs of the celebrations are Prageru and Larry Arnn. The first is an Oenegé that describes its mission as the promotion of “freedom, limited government and Judeo -Christian principles” and Arnn presides over a Christian and conservative higher education center that has been critical of progressive influence in the media.
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