The following article by Mike Molly was posted on the London Telegraph website July 5, 2017:
The Declaration of Independence has caused confusion on Twitter after some Donald Trump supporters appeared to interpret the text as an attack on the president.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
America’s National Public Radio (NPR)faced a public backlash after sharing the famous document in a series of tweets to celebrate Independence Day.
A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
It’s an annual NPR tradition to read out the Declaration of Independence line-by-line on-air for the past 29 years, but their tweets were apparently misinterpreted by some.
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
“So, NPR is calling for a revolution. Interesting way to condone the violence while trying to sound ‘patriotic’. Your implications are clear,” wrote one.