The Crowning Ritual

America250 was supposed to honor the Declaration. Trump is using it to declare himself King.

The Trump administration has handed the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence to the Department of Defense.
Not the National Archives. Not the NEH. Not the Library of Congress.
The Pentagon.

Meanwhile, grants for public humanities programs — like Pennsylvania’s Teen Reading Lounge, where kids talk about the opioid crisis, identity, and menta…