Myles Parks

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

So I feel like that is like if you were in favor of that, you would say, wow, this was a huge success.

But to Danielle's point, also a subscriber's only event for the nation's anniversary.

I don't know.

That is fascinating.

I guess I'm curious about how much of this devolving into pure partisanship exists.

is specifically related to how President Trump has branded this whole thing.

I mean, looking ahead to the event on July 4th, he wrote on social media that at the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument on July 4th in beautiful and safe Washington, D.C., we're going to host the most spectacular Trump rally of them all, a, quote, tribute to America.

I mean, even the idea of having a Trump rally as part of this celebration feels like he himself is kind of adding this partisan layer.

I mean, it couldn't get more blatant than that, right?

Yes, he's making it partisan.

And Trump is the Republican Party right now.

So, I mean, it's just kind of by the transit of property.

Yeah, it's partisan because it's about Trump.

But, I mean, to me, what's been fascinating about so much of this is that

The White House keeps making these sort of motions toward nonpartisanship, trying to put up some sort of a veneer that it's not.

But it was on President Trump's birthday.

So you hear these words, but then you see what's happening.

And it's really sort of some cognitive dissonance going on.

Freedom 250 has become a fig leaf for inserting President Trump and his image and likeness in places where ordinarily you wouldn't see the president of the United States, like

There is a special Freedom 250, 250th anniversary of America passport with a portrait of President Trump inside of the passport.

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