Trump’s Affront to the Founding
“America 250” is supposedly about the Declaration of Independence, the anniversary of which we celebrate on every July Fourth. Some are born with a genius and some are born without.”Five years later, he made substantially the same point in an interview with the New York Times: “They say all men are created equal. Some people are born very smart, some people are born not so smart.”JoinOnce he began running for president, Trump’s speechwriters decorated his public remarks with occasional references to equality.
- ▪“America 250” is supposedly about the Declaration of Independence, the anniversary of which we celebrate on every July Fourth.
- ▪Some are born with a genius and some are born without.”Five years later, he made substantially the same point in an interview with the New York Times: “They say all men are created equal.
- ▪Some people are born very smart, some people are born not so smart.”JoinOnce he began running for president, Trump’s speechwriters decorated his public remarks with occasional references to equality.
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Trump’s Affront to the FoundingThe president besmirches the highest principles of the Declaration of Independence while embodying the tyrannical rule it sought to overthrow.JohnPitneyJun 24, 2026Share(Photo illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Bulwark | Photos: Getty)DONALD TRUMP IS PUTTING ON a celebration of something he doesn’t believe in. “America 250” is supposedly about the Declaration of Independence, the anniversary of which we celebrate on every July Fourth. But through his words and actions, Trump has turned his back on the principles enshrined in the Declaration.The most famous of those principles is that “all men are created equal.” In 2004, Trump told Wolf Blitzer: “But the phrase that ‘all men are created equal’ is a wonderful phrase, but unfortunately it doesn’t work that way.
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