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Imagine the hearings, headlines, and nonstop coverage

The picture on the left is RFK Jr on the left and Trump on the right while the second is just Trump. Something is seriously wrong and I do not believe the White House saying the bruising is from Trump shaking so many hands.

Trump's White House is turning America's 250th birthday into a 9-hour Christian Nationalist revival, and they're using YOUR tax dollars to pay for it.

The event is called "Rededicate 250: National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving." That's the actual name. A nine-hour worship service, with direct White House involvement, branded around the message that America is being "rededicated" as a Christian nation to God.

There is one small historical problem with that premise. America was never originally dedicated as a Christian nation.

The Founders explicitly built a secular government. No religious test for office. No establishment of religion. The First Amendment is the very first thing in the Bill of Rights for a reason. The men who signed the Declaration would be horrified to learn it was being repurposed 250 years later as the marketing campaign for a televangelist tent revival.

But the actual history has never mattered to this crowd.

Look at the speaker list. Franklin Graham. Robert Jeffress. Sean Feucht. Eric Metaxas. Mark Driscoll. A complete who's-who of the most extreme MAGA Christian Nationalist preachers in the country.

There are virtually no Muslims invited. No imams. No rabbis from non-Orthodox traditions. No representatives from historically Black churches. No Indigenous faith leaders. No mainline Protestants. Not even moderate Catholics.

Just a single hand-picked slice of right-wing white evangelical Christianity, paid for by a country that includes hundreds of millions of people who do not belong to that tradition.

The military is being roped in to provide the music. Millions of public dollars earmarked for the national 250th celebration are funding this partisan religious rally.

Tax money from atheists, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, and every other American is paying for a stage that explicitly tells them they are second-class citizens.

This is what Christian Nationalism actually looks like in practice. Wrap the ideology in a flag. Claim victimhood while dominating every government event. Insist the Founders wanted a theocracy when their own writings prove the exact opposite. Scream about "religious freedom" while demanding special treatment and government endorsement for one specific religious faction.

The Declaration of Independence was written to free Americans from a state-imposed religion. Now its 250th anniversary is being hijacked to impose one.

Let’s start with the facts, because the facts matter and they are not what the Trump regime has been selling you.

Cole Allen, a 31-year-old from Torrance, California, allegedly approached a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton Hotel during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night. He was armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and knives. He did not get through. He was stopped at the perimeter.

Here is the critical detail that is getting lost in all the noise: the incident happened on a floor above where the dinner was actually taking place. Not in the room. Not near the room. Up a flight of stairs, past multiple security layers, in a part of the hotel that was open to the general public because the Secret Service only secured the specific areas of the WHCA event — not the entire building. Law enforcement officials confirmed this. The suspect never breached the secured zone. The president, vice president, cabinet officials, and guests were nowhere close to this.

That is not a minor footnote. That is a major part of this story.

And yet, within thirty minutes of the incident, Donald Trump was at a podium holding a press conference, not to reassure the public, not to thank law enforcement, but to demand his golden ballroom. He and his officials were all smiles. Karoline Leavitt had a grin on her face. Pete Hegseth was photographed beaming. Alina Habba posted on Instagram that she “slayed on the look” with a photo of herself from the event, captioned “10/10.” These are the people who want you to believe this was a harrowing, historic moment of danger.

And then there was Dan Scavino. As guests were still processing what had just happened, Scavino decided the moment called for a rousing “USA! USA!” chant. It did not land. The response from the room was total silence. Not even Trump’s own allies joined in. The only thing audible, per footage reviewed from inside the room, was a wave of “shhhhs” from the audience and people telling him to shut up. This is the man as close to Trump as anyone in the regime, and his read on the room in that moment was to try to start a rally chant. It was perhaps the most accidentally revealing and cringeworthy moment of the entire night.