Everything Wrong With The America 250 Celebrations

One of my favorite Americans, who happened to be born before America was a country, is Daniel Boone. Two years after America’s birth as a nation, Boone was in captivity, having been taken prisoner by a Shawnee war party. He was imprisoned for months before making a daring escape, and then traveling 160 miles through ...

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One of my favorite Americans, who happened to be born before America was a country, is Daniel Boone. Two years after America’s birth as a nation, Boone was in captivity, having been taken prisoner by a Shawnee war party. He was imprisoned for months before making a daring escape, and then traveling 160 miles through uncharted wilderness, on foot and by horse in just five days. He made it back to his settlement in just enough time to warn them of a coming attack.

That story alone could be its own movie — and there should be dozens of movies about Daniel Boone. Instead, there have been basically none, at least since the 1960s. But that story is just one anecdote from an absolutely amazing, mythic and yet also real American life.

Boone spent decades exploring and charting the wild American frontier. He helped trailblaze the wilderness road through the Appalachian Mountains, which paved the way for settlers to reach Kentucky and opened a doorway to the West. Just 15 miles from their final destination on the Kentucky River, Boone’s party was attacked by Shawnee warriors. Two men were killed. This echoed an incident from two years before, when Cherokees attacked Boone as he tried to make his way into Kentucky. Several of his party were killed, including his son. And yet two years later here he was again. And this time he completed the task. But, again, this was just one chapter in an amazing American life.

These are the kinds of stories we should be talking about in the lead-up to America’s 250th birthday. We have a lot to celebrate and be thankful for. We are a nation built by some of the most extraordinary human beings who ever lived on the planet. And yet, as you may have noticed, America 250 has so far been a rather muted, anticlimactic affair. There is very little national excitement for it. Very little is being done to commemorate it. And the few meager attempts to organize events around America 250 have been confused, disorganized, and frankly embarrassing, all the more so because it was not supposed to be like this.

Less than two years ago — if you can remember back that far — Donald Trump won the popular vote over Kamala Harris by several million votes. To the liberal mind — to every true believer in the self-described “party of democracy” — this result wasn’t simply shocking. It was unthinkable. These are people who firmly believed, to their core, that the Electoral College was the only reason for the existence of the Republican Party. In truth, Kamala Harris’ defeat wasn’t difficult to explain. It turns out that no sane American wants to be told every day, for years on end, that America is a terrible country. Americans don’t want endless racial grievances to dictate public policy. We don’t want open borders to destroy our national identity, any more than we want deranged activists to smear America’s founders and tear down their statues.

By electing Donald Trump over Kamala Harris, more than 77 million voters rejected a political ideology that’s premised on cynicism and disdain for America and its people, particularly white males. Instead, we voted for the candidate who explicitly promised that he would celebrate America’s greatness and, in particular, its history. This video is from the summer of 2023, as the Biden administration ramped up its campaign of political prosecutions against Trump and his allies. At the time, to many Americans, the idea that Trump could win re-election seemed hard to comprehend. With that in mind, here was Trump’s message.

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Memorial Day 2025 has come and gone, and as you’ve probably noticed, the nationwide parades have not begun. Instead, the administration’s plan to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and the birth of this country, by any measure, has fallen apart in spectacular fashion.

And I’ll freely admit that this is a failure that truly bothers me, for a number of reasons. The more I think about it, the more frustrated I become. And you should feel the same way. No matter what your political beliefs happen to be, this is a story that has many ramifications — some obvious, some not so obvious — for the future of this country.

As I’ll explain, there has never been a failure of this type that is this embarrassing in the history of the United States. The most troubling thing about this situation is what it says about the current state of our country. That’s why, on cable television right now, foreigners are telling millions of Americans that they should feel “unease” about honoring our country’s history.

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Velshi: “I feel deep unease to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary”

Ali Velshi became a citizen in 2015 pic.twitter.com/RapeyBniQ2

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 31, 2026

That MS NOW host, as you probably are not aware, is named Ali Velshi. He was born in Kenya. He went to school in Canada. He was the guy who, during the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis in 2020, told everyone that the riot wasn’t “unruly,” as buildings went up in flames behind him.

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Minneapolis, May 2020.

Velshi as fire raged behind him: “This is mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly.”

Same guy. https://t.co/AP313kJGPE pic.twitter.com/52KZp5gqk1

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 31, 2026

And now, as a proven liar — and as someone who isn’t American, who has no loyalty or love for this country — he is going on national television and telling Americans they should feel “uneasy” about celebrating their history. Something tells me that if I went to Kenya, or to India where his parents are from, and announced that they should be “uneasy” about celebrating their national holidays, or commemorating their history, Ali Velshi would be the first in line to call me a racist and a colonizer.

His goal could not be any more clear. And he’s not alone. The rest of the corporate press is also running cover for Leftists who want to terrorize America 250 events and destroy the country.

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What’s interesting about that footage is that, while they read an excerpt from Bret Michaels’ post, they conveniently left out the most important part. So here’s what he wrote, in its entirety:

“Unfortunately, what was presented to us as a celebration of our country has evolved into something much more divisive than what I agreed to be a part of. Concerns have also been raised regarding the safety of my fans, band, crew, family and myself, including threats that are completely unfounded and unforgivable. Because of that, I have made the difficult decision to step away from this performance.”

So NBC News omitted the fact that, in pulling out of the event, Bret Michaels (the former frontman for the 80s band Poison) cited threats of domestic terrorism and political violence by violent Leftists. Many of these artists, we can assume, have similar concerns. And those concerns are not unfounded. If we’re being honest with ourselves, we all know there’s a very real possibility that a Leftist will attempt to murder anyone who celebrates the founding of America. This is, after all, a movement that openly cheered the assassination of a random health insurance CEO, as well as Charlie Kirk.

They’ve tried to murder Donald Trump more than any other president in American history. They have adopted the tactics of the Bolsheviks. And like the Bolsheviks, Leftists in America seek to violently topple the established order and murder tens of millions of people in the process. That’s why they’re telling musicians that they’ll be executed if they participate in an event that has anything to do with our country’s history. And it’s one of the reasons why many of these musicians are backing out. NBC News doesn’t want to say that out loud. But it’s true.

But I can’t absolve the administration of responsibility here, because they’ve bungled the event as well. It’s looking like we will not have anything close to the raucous, joyous, patriotic celebration that our nation’s 250th deserves, and the blame for that failure can be cast in many directions.

Anyone who says the Trump administration itself is entirely blameless is just being a partisan shill, which I refuse to be. The fact is that, even before the artists started dropping out of Trump’s planned concert in droves, there was already a major problem. The problem is that those artists were invited to