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Donald Trump hijacked America’s 250 and turned it into a ‘theatre of the absurd’
Trump, laying siege to freedoms and truth itself, is twisting America’s milestone birthday into a joyless occasion Americans: how do you feel about the country’s future after 250 years of independence? Tell us: were you born on 4 July? This is the room where it happened. The assembly room at Independence Hall in Philadelphia where, 250 years ago this week, a group of sweating, treasonous men broke from the most powerful empire since ancient Rome. Amid a summer of trial and error, delegates including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson ratified a flawed but aspirational document to declare their independence from the British crown. The date was 4 July 1776 – but it took nearly a month for all 56 delegates of the Second Continental Congress to formally sign on. “ I don’t blame them,” Maggie Burkett, a park ranger, told a group of about 40 tourists as they gazed at green baiz
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Trump, laying siege to freedoms and truth itself, is twisting America’s milestone birthday into a joyless occasion Americans: how do you feel about the country’s future after 250 years of independence? Tell us: were you born on 4 July? This is the room where it happened. The assembly room at Independence Hall in Philadelphia where, 250 years ago this week, a group of sweating, treasonous men broke from the most powerful empire since ancient Rome. Amid a summer of trial and error, delegates including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson ratified a flawed but aspirational document to declare their independence from the British crown. The date was 4 July 1776 – but it took nearly a month for all 56 delegates of the Second Continental Congress to formally sign on. “ I don’t blame them,” Maggie Burkett, a park ranger, told a group of about 40 tourists as they gazed at green baiz
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According to The Guardian’s linked item, Donald Trump hijacked America’s 250 and turned it into a ‘theatre of the absurd’, Trump, laying siege to freedoms and truth itself, is twisting America’s milestone birthday into a joyless occasion Americans: how do you feel about the country’s future after 250 years of independence? Tell us: were you born on 4 July? This is the room where it happened. The assembly room at Independence Hall in Philadelphia where, 250 years ago this week, a group of sweating, treasonous men broke from the most powerful empire since ancient Rome. Amid a summer of trial and error, delegates including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson ratified a flawed but aspirational document to declare their independence from the British crown. The date was 4 July 1776 – but it took nearly a month for all 56 delegates of the Second Continental Congress to formally sign on. “ I don’t blame them,” Maggie Burkett, a park ranger, told a group of about 40 tourists as they gazed at green baiz
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