Over the past year, Donald Trump has been fixated with remaking much of the country’s key institutions in his own image. He has renamed the Kennedy Center after himself, put his own likeness on the National Parks pass, and threatened federal funding for Penn Station and Dulles Airport in order to obtain naming rights for them so they, too, can become extensions of the Trump brand. This is all to say nothing of his concerted efforts to hijack universities, media companies, and assorted businesses to serve the MAGA agenda.
Yet even this rolling offensive doesn’t seem to satisfy the president’s insatiable ego. Trump is now embarking on a crusade to MAGAfy the American past, via a hostile takeover of the federal government’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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