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If you are looking for more on Trump's take on Revolutionary War history, try the White House's America 250 video "The Shot Heard Round the World", at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CawTnediEuU&t=675s
This video, a fairly simple telling of the day's events, is not as factually flawed as his April 19th proclamation. The fighting on Lexington Common is described as a skirmish, rather than ambush. Like many accounts though, it stereotypes the British column that day as "rather mechanical", and "outmaneuvered at every turn" on the retreat to Boston.
It also provides some insight (perhaps unintentionally) on Trump's world view. Early on it explains the stand taken by the Lexington company to not fire unless fired upon with a quote from Sam Adams that it is important to put your enemy in the wrong, including in politics.
The second half of the video focuses on "historical memory" and uses Longfellow's poem on Paul Revere to explain why the events April 19, 1775, are important, and need to be remembered. In what can only be described as an unlimited capacity for a lack of self-awareness, the video concludes with a warning that in times of peril it is in the American character to respond to darkness, and "what was done before can be done again".
May 5, 2025, 2:09:27 PM
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