How America’s Birthday Got Hijacked
The president has a choice between celebrating the nation and glorifying himself. You can probably guess which way he’s going.
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Politics How America 250 Became Trump 80 This is why we can’t have nice things. By Jim Newell June 13, 20265:45 AM Copy Link Share Share Comment <img class="lazyloaded" loading="lazy" src="https://compote.slate.com/images/b4d7f7a3-a5cb-427f-a839-3e09b923ccdd.jpeg?crop=1560%2C1040%2Cx0%2Cy1" alt="Donald Trump blowing out candles on an 80th birthday cake." width="1560" height="1040" /> Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images. Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers the most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that could have beaten Elon Musk to trillionaire status but is consciously pursuing a slow-growth model instead.
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