The United States of America is about to celebrate its 250th birthday, and MSNBC — affectionately known as MSNOW — decided the best way to mark the occasion was to tell you that your patriotism "rings false." Because nothing says "happy birthday" like spitting on the cake.
Seriously, we couldn't even get through the week before the semiquincentennial without a cable news network turning the American flag into a therapy session? These people are exhausting.
The segment, which aired on May 31, 2026, featured Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. framing America's founding anniversary not as a moment of national pride and unity, but as something that "rings false" for many Americans. Glaude, who has made a career out of turning every patriotic moment into a lecture on what's wrong with this country, used the occasion to invoke "white nationalists" and paint the founding as the birth of a "white republic." Because of course he did.
Back in 1976, when America celebrated its bicentennial — that's the 200th birthday for anyone who went to public school recently — the country threw a party. Ships paraded through New York Harbor. The National Air and Space Museum opened in Washington, D.C. Philadelphia lit up around Independence Hall. Americans of every color and creed waved flags and meant it.
Nobody needed a Princeton professor's permission to feel proud.
But that was before the professional grievance industry got its hooks into every institution with a microphone. Now we can't celebrate the Fourth of July without some cable news panel explaining why your cookout is actually an act of oppression.
President Trump has pushed hard for a massive national celebration of America's 250th anniversary, because — and this is apparently controversial now — he thinks the country is worth celebrating. Wild concept, I know. The man who put "America First" on the bumper sticker wants Americans to actually enjoy being American.
And MSNOW's response? "Well, actually, patriotism is problematic."
Here's the thing about Eddie Glaude Jr. and the rest of the faculty-lounge crowd: they don't hate America because they've studied it more carefully than you have. They hate America because hating America is the product they sell. It gets them on panels. It gets them book deals. It gets them tenure at Princeton. The grievance is the business model.
The rest of us? We just see a country that went from 13 colonies to the most powerful, most free, most generous nation in the history of the planet in 250 years. That's not nothing. That's actually kind of amazing.
But you can't say that on MSNBC without someone calling you a "white nationalist." That's how far gone these people are. Wave a flag, you're a fascist. Sing the anthem, you're erasing somebody. Say "God bless America" and a Princeton professor writes a 3,000-word essay about how you're the problem.
As reported by The Gateway Pundit, the segment is the perfect distillation of the modern left. They can't let you have five minutes of uninterrupted pride in your country. Not five minutes.
America turns 250 this year. The fireworks will be spectacular. The parades will be packed. And somewhere in a studio at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Eddie Glaude Jr. will be explaining to eleven viewers why celebrating your country is actually violence.
Happy birthday, America. You deserve better critics.
