Because yesterday was the Fourth of July, a national holiday celebrating patriotism and America and certain kinds of eagles but not necessarily other kinds, National Public Radio chose to celebrate the occasion by tweeting out the Declaration of Independence, 140 characters at a time.
Because we are living in 2017 and a large chunk of the American population has gone stupid, this was met with multiple Trump supporters losing their minds.
[S]ome Trump supporters were a bit confused yesterday, and saw phrases like “unworthy the Head of a civilized nation” as biased. They assumed that NPR was blasting the current president rather than King George in 1776.
To some extent, we deserve this. What was the saying? Those who forget history are condemned to have fits about it on social media?
We could probably have a long debate over why the same collections of people that wave confederate flags around, prod for secession defenses to be written into their state party platforms, and demand the dissolution of large parts of the government would presume a recitation of the Declaration of Independence is a threat to their, ahem, movement. But we won't, because this is all deeply, deeply funny and we're not going to wreck that by parsing it out.
If you're interested in wasting a few hours of your post-holiday stupor, you can conduct your own deep-dive of the responses here.