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For the Fourth of July, Donald Trump's hometown paper, The New York Daily News, celebrated with a cover of the president, but it's not one Trump will be framing for the walls of Mar a Lago any time soon.
In fact, it portrays the president as a "clown who plays king":
The President who plays king won’t conquer the bedrock values this nation was founded on. https://t.co/xKVh7X5RZx— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718976.0
The accompanying cover story is an editorial titled:
Our immigrants, ourselves: What Trump can't take away from this great nation
Which they also tweeted in an epic thread:
On, #July4th2018, the occasion of the 242nd birthday of the United States of America, again recall the words of our… https://t.co/shCzbK7j1R— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718790.0
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator wi… https://t.co/m7UaBuejTK— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718792.0
These are words that continue to inspire millions across the globe — even as they were frustratingly hypocritical a… https://t.co/UDp0z4Do4V— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718794.0
...even as African slaves were kept in bondage, even as 90 years later hundreds of thousands Americans had to fall… https://t.co/3B2iu74uZD— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718796.0
Enter the current occupant of the White House, who devotes this nation’s potent energies to barricading the borders… https://t.co/Tj2NTMdFWh— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718797.0
Among them weep parents who assured their children before parting that they would see them soon, wherever they were… https://t.co/Vxq930mWVT— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718798.0
President Trump’s cruelty in deflecting entry of desperate migrants feeling violence coincides with measures to cho… https://t.co/kD6ndvdziO— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718799.0
All told, visas have declined 12% from their prior volume since Trump’s inauguration — for business, school and tra… https://t.co/a33OCCYGkq— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718800.0
Green-card holders once waited two months or so for naturalization; now the citizenship process drags on for eight… https://t.co/11RfX51Sep— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718801.0
The President would turn back legal immigration by 40% as his price for granting legal status to a million or so Dr… https://t.co/ae4Q4wexwa— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718802.0
The Declaration of Independence spoke to such arbitrary cruelty, against an arrogant monarch who “has endeavoured t… https://t.co/O5EpnQC8fk— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718804.0
for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their… https://t.co/z7hdHVUTyG— New York Daily News (@New York Daily News) 1530718933.0
And Twitter was here for it:
@NYDailyNews Cover of the year!— Mike McGay (@Mike McGay) 1530664713.0
@NYDailyNews https://t.co/43eyj4dq9W— Linda2375 (@Linda2375) 1530668126.0
@NYDailyNews https://t.co/uV6KpEKMbk— anita nedley (@anita nedley) 1530679371.0
@NYDailyNews Thank you @NYDailyNews freedom of press is paramount in protecting democracy. You nailed it👏👏👏👏— Flip it blue 2020 (@Flip it blue 2020) 1530678371.0
@NYDailyNews Amen.— SBAnderson (@SBAnderson) 1530673170.0