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1724: The Year Trump Thought America Was Great
He Finally Told Us the Year

Ever since Donald Trump launched his “Make America Great Again” slogan, I’ve been trying to figure out what timeframe he was referring to when he said “again.” In a recent rally in Las Vegas, Trump finally acknowledged he wanted to take America back to 1724, 300 years ago.
“Let’s go back another 300 years. We are going to liberate our country!” — Donald Trump (29 minute 50 second mark)
I knew I had heard him mention “300 years,” but I couldn’t find the quote anywhere. Before coming across it, I listened to two full Trump speeches from this past weekend in California and Las Vegas. It’s always the last place you look.
So, what did the America Donald Trump desired to look like in 1724? It wasn’t a country yet, coming 52 years before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. There weren’t even thirteen colonies yet. North and South Carolina were a single colony, Georgia would become the last of the 13 colonies, and Florida would be controlled by either Great Britain or Spain until 1821, when it became an American territory.
The term Manifest Destiny wouldn’t be created for another 100+ years, though westward expansion was already a thing. Three…