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And I'm sure all the other celebrations that we've had for, you know, the centennial and the bicentennial or whatever were like that.

But because Trump is has this authoritarian tendency to personalize everything about the office and make it all about himself, it is impossible to participate in an event like this without low key.

endorsing Trump and what Trump is all about, or getting used for his spectacle and self-aggrandizement.

And of course, this is all being hosted around his own personal birthday, so that doesn't help the matter either.

Yeah, it's actually funny.

To back up your point, I'll let Matt Walsh do the talking.

Let's put C4 up there on the screen.

As we like to do.

As we like to do.

I'm actually pretty pissed at how badly they bungled America 250.

First they tried to invite Milli Vanilli and a bunch of other absurdly washed up geriatric one-hit wonders.

Then when that didn't work, they decided to convert the event into a Trump rally where Trump will talk about himself for 90 minutes.

This should have been a massive, raucous celebration of the country and its 250 history.

Now it will be a political rally identical to the 10 million other ones that we have already seen.

I completely agree, Matt Walsh.

But I was doing some ruminating this morning, and I was thinking a little bit about why in some ways it's fitting.

So the last major celebration that we had was the bicentennial in 1976.

And I actually think, if you think back to that time, 1976 was a very bad year.

We were coming off the heels of losing the war in Vietnam.

This was the beginning of like the Carter stagflation era.