Just like his genders, this Delaware Democrat likes his commemoration days both ways.
Rep. Sarah McBride, the country’s first transgender U.S. representative, used Sunday’s anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that killed more than 2,000 Americans to promote a video celebrating Delaware’s status as the first state to ratify the Constitution.
It was trite, it was chatty, and it was a slap in the face to the country’s history, its military, and to the dwindling number of survivors of the attack that brought the United States into World War II.
Check it out here, complete with Rep. McBride’s little joke about “identity.”
I had to make sure everyone on Capitol Hill knew what today is—Delaware Day, the annual celebration of Delaware becoming the First (and objectively best) state in the Union. You’re welcome, America. #YouWishYouWereFirst pic.twitter.com/Mao4kN71wh
— Congresswoman Sarah McBride (@Rep_McBride) December 7, 2025
“If there is one identity that everyone associates with me, it’s that I’m a Delawarean, a proud and true stateriot,” McBride said in the video posted Sunday to the social media platform X.
“And today is the day of all days. It’s Delaware Day!”
On Dec. 7, 1787, McBride said, Delaware “dared to go where no state had gone before, becoming the first state in the nation to ratify the U.S. Constitution.”
The video then showed McBride mincing through the offices and halls of the Capitol, distributing (sometimes just tossing) “Delaware Day” cards. (“You wish you were first,” the cards blared.)
Well, with all due respect to The First State, the fact that Dec. 7 is etched into the nation’s history has nothing to do with the Founding Days and the small wonder that gave the country Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency.
It has everything to do with a military calamity in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1941 — the date “which will live in infamy,” in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s immortal words.
Its annual occurrence isn’t an occasion for cutesy videos by any politician pushing state pride.
It is, or should be, a day when Americans remember that every man and woman who puts on the uniform of military service is putting a life on the line. More than 600,000 Americans died in the war years that followed the Pearl Harbor attack, and a new international order was born in the global devastation of World War II.
In any rational mind, the date is more than an occasion for a man to prance around in a pantsuit.
And McBride’s video drew plenty of fire for the politician formerly known as “Tim”:
Today, we remember Pearl Harbor, have some respect.
— Michael The Servant (@Of_Decebal) December 8, 2025
Congressman. Enough of the make believe
— Texas_Malinois_Mila (@MilaTexas51095) December 7, 2025
Tim, you are a disgrace! Today is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day!
— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) December 7, 2025
To be fair, McBride did deign to take note of the date’s weightier significance with a separate post on X — a pro forma piece of boilerplate that, by comparison to the “Delaware Day” production, had all the sincerity of a “Happy Arbor Day” card.
On Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, we honor the servicemembers and civilians who lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—reminds us of their profound sacrifice and calls us to work toward a future defined not by conflict,… pic.twitter.com/yUYp4Pn8d6
— Congresswoman Sarah McBride (@Rep_McBride) December 7, 2025
That, in itself, might have been fine in a mediocre kind of way, but it clearly lacked any of the thought or time that went into Rep. McBride’s celebration of “Delaware Day.” The priorities of the McBride office are painfully apparent.
It’s an irreversible fact that the years since Pearl Harbor keep increasing. Only 12 of the men who were there at the dawn of their adult lives are still living, according to CNN. And 2025 marked the first year that no survivors could be present at ceremonies commemorating the attack.
That means it’s the duty of living Americans to recall the event that became a pivot point for world history, not allowing the day to be cheapened for political purposes.
And it’s the duty of living Americans to remember those who died in their country’s service.
McBride’s implicit attempt to have something called “Delaware Day” supplant Pearl Harbor Day is as fake as the female persona he’s adopted.
And he can’t have it both ways.
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