Donald Trump hijacked America’s 250 and turned it into a ‘theatre of the absurd’ ^28.1%

The Guardian - By David Smith - 6/29/2026, 11:00 AM

Biased Writer Voice 34.7% - Negativity Bias 33% - Confirmation Bias 19.2%

This is the room where it happened. The assembly room at Independence Hall in Philadelphia where, 250 years ago this week, a group of sweating, treasonous men broke from the most powerful empire since ancient Rome. Amid a summer of trial and error, delegates including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson ratified a flawed... more