July 4th 2026. America’s Independence Day. It’s been 250 years since that colony fought and won a bloody war to set itself free. The anniversary will be extravagantly celebrated. In addition to the flags and drums, cheerleaders in pom poms, resonant national anthem renditions, fireworks, countless parties, happy marches and fawning by western nations, we will see inglorious Trumpism parading itself and “owning” the day.
Sensing they were being manipulated, several artists withdrew from the planned Freedom 250 music concerts in Washington’s National Mall, scheduled to celebrate the event. Furious Donald Trump cancelled them all and announced a “Rally to end all Rallies”. A vast fair and cage fighting are some of his other offerings.
America today is a frightful place.
Slavery is being whitewashed; academics, teachers and activists who try to stop the erasures are ostracised. Books about Black history or with gay characters are banned in libraries. Abortion rights have been terminated by Supreme Court judges. Ruthless ICE men come for migrants of colour – illegal and legal. Families are separated. The horror, the horror of such inhumanity. July 4th gives the regime a priceless opportunity to be seen as heroic.
Trump has been funding his pet projects through opaque structures, too, in attempt to leave his mark on the country. The ultimate symbol of that will be an “Arc De Trump” between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
While I feel revulsion when it comes to Trump, to me, Trumpism is just a more extreme version of America’s usual pride, greed and destructiveness. Sure the nation has given us great movies, TV and books; scientific advances too. But those cannot outset the negative impact of US politics.
So here, as Independence Day approaches, I call upon upright American citizens to reflect on why so many humans – insiders and outsiders – hate America. You need to care; you need to listen. The aversion didn’t start with Trump and it won’t end with him.
The nation branded itself the “leader of the western world”; invented the illusory American Dream and pretended Americans were free and equal. Hollywood merchandised these fakeries. Billions of people – its own citizens and foreigners – consumed them. Few today buy this stuff. American migrants are fleeing to Europe, luckily for them, on planes, not small boats.
My best friend is American. Until recently, she zealously hung out flags, backed the 1986 attacks on Libya which were widely believed to have killed Gaddafi’s adopted baby, as well as the Iraq war. We didn’t speak for a long time after the latter. Now she is preparing to go live in Canada. Another friend, a charity worker in California, tells me that since 2021, life expectancy for those without a college degree has been falling and “no one bloody cares”. Disillusioned, she too is emigrating to Canada.
More seriously, internationally, anti-American odium spreads far and wide. Most Brits are repelled by Trump and his administration. As are countless Europeans, South Americans and others in the Global South.
For true and noble patriots, a reality check is now an imperative, a duty. Here are a few examples of American hubris and contemptuous indifference to fairness, justice, internationalism and human rights.
Anti-competitive practices by US tech bros and their refusal to accept reasonable regulation of the systems they have generated are a threat to humanity itself. Bold inventiveness has degenerated into brutish self-interest.
Next, in the 250 America’s “National Garden of American Heroes”, 250 statues including that of Benjamin Franklin will “reflect the awesome splendour of our country’s timeless exceptionalism”. That darned exceptionalism has deformed the post-war world order; bent established rules to US will and whimsies.
From the Cold War to today, US interventions have left countries bloodied and crushed. Afghanistan was the biggest betrayal of all. Iranians are the latest to be “punished”. Worse still, the withdrawal of aid to the poorest countries is leading to avoidable deaths and epidemics.
It’s all done in your name. When you celebrate Independence Day, remember your country as it is and was, not the fables and images which have covered up its real story.
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