It is now clear. It can now be revealed. Donald Trump has prepared a special 250th birthday gift for the United States of America.

Trump has boldly decided to commemorate the semiquincentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence with a series of embarrassments that will surely be remembered as among the most mortifying not just in the history of the United States but in the history of any country, anywhere.

Together, they tap into every source of shame, ignominy, and indignity imaginable. Some are tacky. Some are failures. Some are sleazy. Some reflect badly on the president, some on his party, and some on the entire country.

Call it the semicringecentennial.

Marking a parallel with George Washington, who was famously called “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” Trump will forever be known as “first in incompetence, first in tastelessness and first in the minds of psychiatrists who study narcissism, megalomania and public displays of dementia.”

He wanted to mark the 250th with a series of concerts. But no significant or even credible artists would agree to take the stage, so instead he turned to defunct and, in some cases, disgraced (Milli Vanilli) musical acts that are hardly suitable for an Elks Club Arbor Day celebration, much less one of the most consequential milestones in our nation’s history. But then even those artists abandoned ship when they realized they were being utilized as political props.

Now, instead, via a long post on the most susmaxxed of all social media platforms, Truth Social, Trump attacked the artists and announced that instead of entertaining the American public on the occasion of the country’s birthday, he would instead provide them with the one thing they wanted least of........

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