Rubio Hits It Out of the Park With a Banger of an America 250 Message

On this 250th anniversary of our birth as a nation - a truly monumental moment in our history - we see people pushing two competing views of America.

There is the radical left version being pushed by people like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. He dared to sit behind the desk of George Washington and scold us on our history on our birthday.

JUST IN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani used America’s 250th anniversary to sharply criticize the country, accusing the U.S. of allowing children to go hungry while billionaires and “oligarchs” gain more power.

He said America’s wealth was built by working people with “calloused,… pic.twitter.com/p7Ayuza5je
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Compare that with President Donald Trump's Mount Rushmore speech, where he spoke about our exceptionalism. We are not exceptional, as Mamdani claims, because "nothing is fixed." If nothing is fixed, it can be stepped aside by the political winds of socialism or Communism, as Trump warned.

Indeed, the very core of our being is fixed, based upon individual rights, rooted in the Constitutional rule of law, that is locked in stone like Mount Rushmore. It cannot be swept aside, no matter how much socialists may try.

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Then, Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted a banger of a video that truly hits on the real meaning of this birthday. Our Founders, he said, valued what they had crafted. It was more precious than wealth, more valuable than safety, and life itself to them.

For 250 years, America has been the greatest nation on Earth — and with God’s grace, it will be for 250 more.

Happy Independence Day! pic.twitter.com/2X31hwk7Bx
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) July 4, 2026

They were the heirs to "the whole expanse of Western memory stretching from Athens and Rome to the Magna Carta and Jamestown and Plymouth Rock."

The Founders knew it was not an "abstraction." "Many failed states have borrowed the words of rights and liberties. But a Constitution is only as strong as the people it belongs to," Rubio warned.

America's never merely been a "proposition," Rubio said. That's something we used to hear from Joe Biden, and there are also echoes of this thought in Mamdani's speech: America is an "idea" that has never lived up to its promise. This stance never gives America the credit it is due for all that it has brought to the world, that shining city on the hill. If Biden or Mamdani were right, then no one would want to come here. If they were right, we wouldn't have saved the world in two World Wars and helped defeat Communism overseas. And we may have to defeat it again. Yes, we have flaws, but if you're not holding up our core, you are missing (or attacking) our very point.

"This is the greatest nation on Earth," Rubio concluded.

I don't think there's any question about who got it right here.

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