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A New York Times panel of columnists say America is heading toward its 250th anniversary, but many of its citizens and residents are not feeling celebratory, especially with billionaire President Donald Trump working to make it a celebration for only one certain class of people. <\/p>\n

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Columnists Michelle Cottle, David French and Jamelle Bouie took turns decimating the failure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe weird special event for our birthday boy, Mr. President, two weeks ago, with the U.F.C. fight and all of that \u2014 \u2026 that [was] not meant for the broad public. Like, you had to have a Paramount+ subscription to even watch it, first of all. It was meant for just a subset of even his own supporters,\u201d said Bouie. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t any kind of attempt to bring the country together under common civic rituals. And to me, that\u2019s an intentional thing. They\u2019re thinking of the 250th as an attempt to kind of glorify \u2014 and I use that in a religious way \u2014 Donald Trump, and not as an opportunity to, despite our many divisions and fractious nature and all that, think about our common origins and our common purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House doesn\u2019t \u201cconceive of all Americans as being American in the same way,\u201d said Bouie, with the dividing line being whether or not you support Trump\u2019s political project.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s this constant stratification,\u201d said French, referring to the celebrations very limited appeal of UFC wrestling and one or two acts of hard rock country singers. \u201cIt\u2019s this constant sense of a pecking order, and then this constant sense there is always, always in the back of their mind something that goes like this: \u2018How can we do this in a way that will make other people mad, that will make our enemies mad? How can we make our enemies mad today?\u2019 As opposed to, \u2018How can we bring the country together today?\u2019 It really does seem to be an absolute communications priority of this administration to just go ahead and decide to tick people off on purpose, as long as it\u2019s the right people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat strikes me as at the root of the president\u2019s movement all along,\u201d said Cottle. \u201cWhatever you think of his politics, it\u2019s all about ticking off the elites, which is hilarious because he is an elite of sorts. He\u2019s just an elite who\u2019s always had a chip on his shoulder and has never really fit in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight, and elites here are defined in a purely cultural, nonmaterial way,\u201d said Bouie. \u201cFor these people \u2014 if you are, like, a barista with an English degree, making $15 an hour, you\u2019re an elite because Netflix producers like to make shows for you sometimes. Whereas if you are a billionaire buying pardons for your buddies, you\u2019re not an elite, because the cultural tastemakers supposedly look down on you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Jamelle said was exactly right about elites,\u201d said French. \u201cYou can be an underemployed Brown English or art major grad, and that\u2019s an elite. And if you own five car dealerships in, say, Hattiesburg, Miss., you\u2019re just a working man. \u2026 Somebody who might be on the elder board of a church, the head of the local Kiwanis Club, or, you know, has their name on a building in a local college, right? And they will view themselves as the scrappy underdog because, you know, the gender studies department in Oberlin looks down on them.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, my God, boo-hoo-hoo,\u201d erupted Cottle. \u201cThat\u2019s all I\u2019ve got to say to the president, just boo-hoo-hoo. Get over it, OK? Get over yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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