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A historical-style painting depicting the construction of the White House (then called the President's House) in 1792, with scaffolding visible around the building under a large cloudy sky. In the foreground, two men in colonial-era attire — one identified as President George Washington and the other as architect James Hoban — stand facing the construction site; the man on the right, in a dark coat and tricorn hat, gestures with a raised arm toward the building while holding rolled papers, and the man on the left, in a black coat and hat, holds architectural plans. Other figures in period clothing are scattered around, including a woman in a red dress with a bonnet on the left and workers/tradesmen on the right examining papers near a horse-drawn cart. A caption is printed below the image.

Text in image: Architect James Hoban (right) and President George Washington (left) supervise construction on the President's House in 1792

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A digitally composited poster-style image splitting a face down the middle: the left half is George Washington (powdered white hair, black coat, white lace jabot/cravat) and the right half is Donald Trump (blond hair, blue suit jacket, white shirt, red tie, American flag lapel pin), merged into one face. The background is a weathered/distressed American flag design in dark blue with stars at top and red-and-tan horizontal stripes below. Gold ornamental text with a scroll-like flourish design appears at the top.

Text in image: 250 YEARS IN GOD WE TRUST

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In July of 1776, King George III still towered over New York City, not in person, in lead. That bowling green near the tip of Manhattan stood a gilded 4,000-pound statute of King George on horseback dressed like a Roman emperor. It had been erected just six years earlier as a monument to British power, but by the summer of 1776, Americans no longer saw majesty in this statute. They saw tyranny. On July 9, 1776, George Washington gathered his troops in New York and had them easily adopt the Declaration of Independence read aloud. The words that barely settled before soldiers, sailors, and patriots surged down Broadway to bowling green on top of the King George statue. While the crowd saw tyranny toppled, Connecticut patriot Oliver Walcott saw bullets, 4,000 pounds of lead bullets, for a Continental Army Walcott knew would be desperate for ammunition. So Walcott had the shattered pieces of King George loaded onto boats and shipped to Connecticut. From there, ox carts hauled the remains of King George more than 60 miles over rough country roads to Walcott's home in Litchfield. And in the Walcott family orchard, a shed became a foundry. His wife, Laura, his daughter, Mary Ann, and local neighbors worked over melting pots pouring the King's lead into bullet molds, 42,088 musket balls in all. Some of those boats were fired two years later at the Battle of Monmon, the brutal New Jersey showdown where Washington's army proved a good stand in the open field against British regulars. You have to love the irony, Britain sent America a monument to empire, America sent it right back in muzzle velocity. So let's celebrate our nation's 250th birthday as we remember patriots like Oliver Walcott who made it all possible. From the White House, I'm Peter Navarro.

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