Myles Parks

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Is America's 250th birthday celebration too partisan? · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

area, most definitely.

America 250 is still having events in other parts of the nation.

They still have what they're calling a block party, a big concert in Los Angeles, for example, one in Philadelphia.

One presumes weather permitting because Philadelphia is under this heat dome.

Yeah, so that is still happening.

But the controversy around

Freedom 250 just keeps rolling on.

I mean, there were all of these discussions around the UFC fight about the fact that, first of all, you couldn't even watch it if you didn't have a Paramount Plus subscription.

So, OK, I don't know, is this supposedly 250th anniversary thing just a profit-making enterprise?

And also a way for Trump to cozy up to his buddies like the head of UFC.

But not only that, there was just a report put out by congressional Democrats alleging all sorts of malfeasance around Freedom 250.

Now, I should, again, stress alleging.

But they are saying that Freedom 250, their words, may have conducted wire fraud by luring donors to send their money to places they didn't mean to.

They also allege that President Trump was selling access to people willing to pay for it.

That sort of thing.

So you can imagine that throughout the rest of this year, those sorts of allegations are going to keep flying around.

Now, we should also add that we reached out to Freedom 250 and their spokesperson, Danielle Alvarez, responded, quote, this so-called report is nothing more than a partisan smear.

And she also called it categorically false.

I totally see what you mean about the political Rorschach test, Tim, because I think the UFC fight is a great example.

It also had the highest ratings of any UFC event they announced after the fact.

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