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Marjorie Taylor Greene reprimanded for botching July 4th story on X

July 9, 2024
Marjorie Taylor Greene reprimanded for botching July 4th story on X

Marjorie Taylor Greene was lectured online over the weekend for botching basic American history during Friday’s Fourth of July celebration. In a now-flagged X-post, she falsely named George Washington, Paul Revere and several other historical figures as signers of the Declaration of Independence. The Georgia congresswoman’s blunder was quickly exposed and mocked by social media users from both liberals and conservatives.

“This is the greatest community message of all time,” an X user wrote on Sunday after X’s post was officially flagged with a content warning that read: “James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe, Aaron Burr, Paul Revere and George Washington were not signers of the Declaration of Independence.”

“Make stupidity embarrassing again,” the individual added.

Taylor Greene’s original post, designed to highlight the age of the historic document’s signers, read: “The average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, was 44, but more than a dozen were 35 or younger.”

The congresswoman then deleted some of the signatories, including false ones, such as Revere, best known as a hero of the American Revolution who informed the people of Boston that the British army was on its way before the battles of Lexington and Concord.

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“Thomas Jefferson: 33 John Hancock: 39 James Madison: 25 Alexander Hamilton: 21 James Monroe: 18 Aaron Burr: 20 Paul Revere: 41 George Washington: 44,” she continued in her post, misnaming five more names. It wasn’t long before Taylor Greene’s post was flooded with X-users mocking her and accusing her of her lack of knowledge of American history, despite being a prominent self-described American patriot.

“It just keeps happening,” Aaron Blake, a senior political reporter for The Washington Post, wrote on Sunday. He included screenshots of Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Rep. Dan Bishop and former Rep. Madison Cawthorne botching facts about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Commenting under the post, Rep. Jack Kimble jokingly asked Taylor Greene, “How could you forget Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan and Ronald Reagan?”

Since he posted the post, people have continued to react to it, with conservative radio host Erick Erickson even questioning Taylor Greene’s intelligence.

“WTF. Are you stupid? This is embarrassing,” he wrote.

Check out how many troll actions X users applied to Taylor Greene’s post below.

And for anyone who’s interested, the actual list of the 56 delegates who signed the Declaration of Independence is as follows: John Adams, Samuel Adams, Josiah Bartlett, Carter Braxton, Charles Carroll, Samuel Chase, Abraham Clark, George Clymer, William Ellery, William Floyd, Benjamin Franklin, Elbridge Gerry, Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, John Hancock, Benjamin Harrison, John Hart, Joseph Hewes, Thomas Heyward, Jr., William Hooper, Stephen Hopkins, Francis Hopkinson, Samuel Huntington, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee, Francis, Lewis, Philip Livingston, Thomas Lynch, Jr., Thomas McKean, Arthur Middleton, Lewis Morris, Robert Morris, John Morton, Thomas Nelson, Jr., William Paca, John Penn, George Read, Caesar Rodney, George Ross, Benjamin Rush, Edward Rutledge, Roger Sherman, James Smith, Richard Stockton, Thomas Stone, George Taylor, Matthew Thornton, George Walton, William Whipple, William Williams, James Wilson, John Witherspoon, Oliver Wolcott and George Wythe.

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