On Constitution Day in September 2020—less than two months before his re-election defeat—President Donald Trump staged a White House Conference on American History at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

He called the National Archives, an institution he would later battle over classified and top-secret documents he would remove from the White House months later and refuse to return, “the sacred home of our national memory.”

“In this great chamber,” Trump said, “we preserve our glorious inheritance: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights.”

Trump used the occasion to attack “the left” multiple times, and his political opponent, Joe Biden.

After winning a second term four years later, President Trump ordered the Declaration of Independence to be displayed in the Oval Office—the same revered space where he also chose to hang the police booking mug shot from his criminal arrest.

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“The Nationals Archives [sic] delivered the Declaration of Independence to the White House at the President’s request,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. “It is displayed in the Oval Office where it will be carefully protected and preserved.”

The AP suggested the version hanging in the Oval Office may not be an original copy (there are about 25), since its words are “clear and legible,” while the original, centuries-old document, is faded.

Trump told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that it has “been in the vaults for many, many decades.”

“Think Joe Biden would do this? I don’t think so,” Trump asked the Fox News host. “Do you think he knows what it is?”

Last month, President Trump told reporters, “See the Declaration of Independence? You should all read that before you leave. That’s the real deal.”

This week, during Trump’s first 100 days interview with ABC News, senior national correspondent Terry Moran asked the President of the United States what the Declaration of Independence means to him.

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But the President appears to have forgotten that the Declaration of Independence, an actual act of high treason against Britain and King George III, is a literal declaration of the 13 colonies’ independence. Detailing the founders’ grievances against the Crown, it led to the Revolutionary War. It has been said it contains “the most potent and consequential words in American history.”

Instead, Trump told Moran, “Well, it means, exactly what it says. It’s a declaration, it’s a declaration of unity and love and respect, and it means a lot, and it’s something very special to our country.”

HuffPost reported that “‘Daily Show’ correspondent Desi Lydic mocked President Donald Trump on Wednesday after he revealed what the Declaration of Independence means to him.”

“But what makes Trump’s remarks ‘even more sad,’ Lydic said, is that the document is about the 13 colonies “filing for divorce” from Britain,” HuffPost added. “’It’s the one thing Trump should absolutely recognize,’ Lydic joked in a nod to the president divorcing Ivana Trump and Marla Maples prior to marrying first lady Melania Trump in 2005.”

Others also mocked the President of the United States for appearing to not know what the Declaration of Independence is.

“Laughing through my tears,” wrote former U.S. Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY). “The President of the United States has obviously never read the Declaration of Independence. He’s obviously never read the Constitution either.”

“Trump has absolutely no clue what the Declaration of Independence is or what it says,” charged Ron Filipkowski, an attorney and the editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch News.

“If the Democrats were better at this game, they would take Trump’s ‘explanation’ of the Declaration of Independence and run it as a 30-second ad, without comment, on every station they could find,” said journalist and columnist Jay Bookman.

The White House apparently took no issue with the President’s apparent lack of understanding of one of America’s most important founding documents. The official White House Rapid Response team posted the video from his ABC News interview that includes Trump’s unique explanation of the Declaration of Independence.

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WATCH: @POTUS shows off his redecorating of the Oval Office, including portraits of great American presidents and the Declaration of Independence 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/hxK6SVWjuQ

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 30, 2025

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Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ignited a heated confrontation during a budget bill hearing Wednesday by claiming that budgets have nothing to do with policy — a stance that top Democrats have long argued contradicts core American values. Her assertion drew an immediate rebuttal from one of the committee’s top Democrats, but Oversight Chairman James Comer jumped to Greene’s defense, attempting to cut off the correction and escalating the exchange into a shouting match, while mocking Democrats’ efforts to preserve and honor American values.

After U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) made an impassioned plea to not cut the budget of the Veterans Administration, or Social Security, or Medicare in order to produce a $4 trillion tax cut largely for the wealthy — a top Trump priority — Congresswoman Greene lashed out.

“I’d like to point something out that our Democrat colleagues know this, because they did reconciliation before when they are they were in charge and, you know, it may be hard for some of the freshman Dems to understand, but this is not a policy debate,” the Georgia Republican alleged. “That’s not what reconciliation is. This is a budget process.”

“And so for the American people watching at home, our Democrat colleagues are sitting here trying to score points and spread more lies and divisiveness about Republicans in order to spread more garbage across the country,” she charged, calling Democrats’ pleas “entertainment.”

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That’s when U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, a Massachusetts Democrat in Congress for nearly a quarter century and possibly next in line for Ranking Member of the Oversight Committee, slammed Greene’s interpretation of the Committee’s work.

“Mr. Chairman, I just want to say, our federal budget reflects our values,” Lynch declared, a statement many budget experts would affirm, and one that has been by President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

“When we fund the VA,” Lynch continued, “it’s not just about numbers. It’s about, it’s about the mission, and the purpose of our budget.”

Chairman Comer appeared to grow angry.

“You do understand our federal budget is $2.5 trillion?” Comer declared, appearing to suggest details like how much spent on veterans was not worth the Committee’s time. “We can’t have ‘values’,” Comer insisted, with the amount of debt the federal government is carrying.

“Reclaiming my time — you don’t get to just interject, Mr. Chairman,” Lynch charged.

You know what? I think you’ve already spoken, so you’re out of order,” Comer declared, hitting his desk with his gavel.

“I will speak,” Lynch, now heated, told the Chair. “You’re about to put our country $4 trillion more than debt.”

“I don’t think you all could find a billion dollars in savings,” Comer alleged.

“Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time. Reclaiming my time,” Lynch again declared.

“You can talk all you want. I want everyone in America to see how much — ” Comer snapped.

“Mr. Chairman. You’re out of order. You’re out of order. You’re the chairman, you’re out of order,” Lynch again charged.

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“Now, without interruption,” Lynch continued, “what we decide here in the budget is what I’m the point I’m trying to make is it’s not just dollars and cents. It’s about where, where that money goes, and what, what purposes and what, what priorities it reflects. And those, you know, governing is about making decisions, and we we choose to fund things that in this country, we have honored for a very long time, and that, you know, I have to say, in my 25 years in Congress, we have had very little disagreement on funding veteran benefits.”

Lynch went on to lament that “now we’re fighting tooth and tongs — and nail — about whether we’re gonna lay off 80,000 employees at the VA. What I’m saying is that, sure, it’s about the budget, but underlying that budget is is our priorities as a country. What we consider to be worthwhile . And I feel that veterans’ benefits are worthwhile. Veterans, healthcare is worthwhile. The way we treat our federal employees is important. It is intrinsic to be the work of the federal government and how we help the most vulnerable, as well as, you, average everyday Americans on Social Security, on Medicaid.”

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Greene: For the American people watching at home, our Democrat colleagues are sitting here trying to score points and spread lies and divisiveness about Republicans in order to spread more garbage… This committee is trying to do serious work pic.twitter.com/klJ2WdBQkk

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 30, 2025

Lynch: Reclaiming my time

Comer: But but—

Lynch: You don’t get to just interject

Comer: You know what? You’re out of order pic.twitter.com/r8bRXcSD61

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 30, 2025

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President Donald Trump, the Trump White House, and top administration officials are insisting Wednesday’s first quarter negative GDP numbers — showing a contracting economy for the first time in almost three years, since COVID — are actually good news but also the fault of President Joe Biden.

The New York Times characterized President Trump’s first quarter results as “a stunning reversal from the strong growth at the end of last year.”

Speaking at a televised Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, President Trump, reading from notes on the GDP results, said, “you know, you probably saw some numbers today. And I have to start off by saying, that’s Biden. That’s not Trump, because we came in on January just the quarterly numbers, and we came in and I was very against everything that Biden was doing in terms of the economy destroying our country.”

Later, at that same meeting, Trump continued.

The stock market, Trump insisted “in this case is it says how bad a situation we inherited.”

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Leading economists say President Biden handed President Trump a robust economy — which is now in crisis, much like when President Barack Obama handed Trump a robust economy, which Trump reportedly handed over to Biden in “shambles.”

“I took place, this is a quarter that we looked at today. And I took place, we took, all of us together, we came in on January 20th,” said, Trump, appearing to stumble over his words. “So this is Biden, and you can even say the next quarter is sort of Biden, because it doesn’t just happen on a daily or even hourly basis.”

Trump already blaming the next quarter on Biden: This is Biden and you can even say the next quarter is sort of Biden pic.twitter.com/pjUkmR44y0

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 30, 2025

The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg challenged Trump on those points.

“You frequently took credit for the stock market highs. You said it was a reflection of how well you were doing in the polls, and then after you were elected, you said the stock market highs were a reflection of how well the transition’s going and the American people’s confidence in your incoming administration,” Feinberg declared. “Now, the stock market’s not doing so well, and you’re saying that’s the Biden stock market, yet you are the president. Can you explain that?”

“No,” Trump replied. “I’m not taking credit or discredit for the stock market.”

great question here from @AndrewFeinberg pic.twitter.com/yNA6isIYAn

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 30, 2025

The negative GDP numbers are for the full months of January, February, and March, so about 20 days short of the full three months took place on President Trump’s watch.

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But even Trump claimed credit for strong stock market numbers before he was sworn in to office — nearly one full year before he was sworn in to office, as political scientist Ian Bremmer noted:

it was the trump stock market before,
because it was going up. now it’s the biden stock market, because it’s going down.

this is not difficult to understand. pic.twitter.com/cPFOYNdsAL

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) April 30, 2025

Trump earlier on Wednesday had posted to his Truth Social account, “This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s. I didn’t take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers. Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang.’ This will take a while, has NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS, only that he left us with bad numbers, but when the boom begins, it will be like no other. BE PATIENT!!!”

As the Times noted, Peter Navarro, Senior Counselor to the President for Trade and Manufacturing, and a convicted felon who served in the first Trump administration, claimed that the G.D.P. figures “really should be very positive news for America.”

The Times remarked, “Few economists agree.”

It is not just President Trump and his trade architect Peter Navarro, attempting to “spin” the negative numbers.

“Well, look,” Trump White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told C-SPAN on Wednesday, “if you break it down, there is an outsized influence of January in that [GDP] report. Remember, this president wasn’t elected until January 20th. The GDP is a backward looking indicator, but all the other indicators that what we do have from that report and others show that there is a really positive trend for this president’s new golden age that he is unleashing.”

At President Trump’s Cabinet meeting, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent praised the president’s “momentous” first 100 days and asserted that “American families are finding their financial footing again”—a claim at odds with recent consumer confidence reports, which have fallen to their lowest levels since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bessent also stated that “energy costs are down, mortgage rates have plummeted, and food costs are moving lower.” However, each of those claims is subject to challenge, with data and examples that suggest the opposite in many cases.

In a statement, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed “New Data Reveals Strong Economic Momentum.”

“It’s no surprise the leftovers of Biden’s economic disaster have been a drag on economic growth, but the underlying numbers tell the real story of the strong momentum President Trump is delivering. Robust core GDP, the highest gross domestic investment in four years, job growth, and trillions of dollars in new investments secured by President Trump are fueling an economic boom and setting the stage for unprecedented growth as President Trump ushers in the new Golden Age.”

Aaron Fritschner, Deputy Chief of Staff for U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), observed, “The White House statement on the GDP report simultaneously takes the positions that the economy contracting in the first quarter is both a good thing and Biden’s fault.”

Meanwhile, critics are blasting Trump and his administration.

“If you’re keeping track, Candidate Trump claimed credit for a booming stock market a year before he would ultimately take office, but here President Trump blames his predecessor after 100 days of his stewardship of the economy,” wrote NBC News senior White House correspondent Garrett Haake.

And in an all-caps post, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), the Democrats’ Chief Deputy Whip, appeared to mock Trump: “Last year when the stock market was booming that was because of me but now that I am president the problems are Bidens fault please chill this is going great I’m making deals be patient shortages are fine aaaaahhhhhh.”

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