World leaders, dignitaries pay tribute to America on historic 250th birthday
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
There's something almost quaint about the King of England sending well-wishes for the 250th anniversary of the country that fired him. History has a sense of humor, and Charles clearly does too, because that message could have been perfunctory and instead it read like genuine respect. Same with Pope Leo.
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King Charles and Pope Leo XIV were among world leaders sending messages to Trump on America's 250th Independence Day. From Jerusalem to the UAE and Japan congratulations were sent.
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There's something almost quaint about the King of England sending well-wishes for the 250th anniversary of the country that fired him. History has a sense of humor, and Charles clearly does too, because that message could have been perfunctory and instead it read like genuine respect. Same with Pope Leo. These aren't nothing gestures from nothing places.
What strikes us is how normal this all felt in the coverage, when it shouldn't be treated as normal at all. A quarter of a millennium of self-government, still standing, still drawing congratulations from Jerusalem to Tokyo to the UAE. That's not background noise. That's the world acknowledging an experiment that most of its critics, foreign and domestic, assumed would have collapsed by now.
We'd just ask people to sit with that for a second instead of scrolling past it. Countries don't send birthday wishes to failed projects. They send them to the ones still worth reckoning with.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.