Happy 250th Birthday, America.

How is your president, the living symbol of our democracy, our nation’s leader and face unto the world marking the holiday? Well, one of the things he is doing is touring the country in a flying bribe, an airborne emolument’s clause violation. At the same time, his family is celebrating a corruption bonanza that brought Trump $2.2 billion in cash and prizes last year, more than four times what he made the prior year as a private citizen.

How did he make the money? Well, a lot of it came from crypto deals that did better and better as he gave more and more breaks to the crypto industry. $80 million of it came from “settlements” (translation: pay-offs) from corporations that wanted preferential treatment from Trump on deals they were doing. And that doesn’t count the “donations” that happened to coincide with pardons or merger approvals or other twists of good fortune the donors received with respect to their relations with the U.S. government.

Who needs fireworks when you have a big noisy game of Grand Theft White House going on all the time?

Face it, as the United States celebrates a historical milestone, somehow we have managed to empower the absolute worst person possible to lead America as we commemorate its founding. He is not just a bad, incompetent man whose own hand-picked Supreme Court majority let stand a ruling that he was guilty of sex abuse and defamation earlier this week. He is actually the antithesis of our founders.

He’s the un-Washington, the anti-George.

Recent polls of historians have shown again that our first president was rated as one of our very best. Trump, meanwhile, was rated as the bottom of the barrel, one of the worst among many folks of whom we really ought to be ashamed had achieved our highest office.

Compare Trump to Washington—which Trump has done from time to time—and the reasons why our current chief executive fairs so poorly in........

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