The Rachel Maddow Show
Lost in the sauce: Stories Trump probably hoped you wouldn't notice while he 'flooded the zone'
Sat, 19 Apr 2025
Did you know Donald Trump plans to eliminate Head Start the preschool program? Did you know he gutted Americorps? Have you heard what he did to the National Weather Service? Rachel Maddow rounds up stories that would be huge news in normal times but may have slipped by unnoticed by many Americans in the shadow of Trump's daily wrecking ball spectacle.
What is the significance of the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride?
Happy Friday. It is Friday, at least. Tonight it is April 18th, and that means tonight is the 250-year anniversary of Paul Revere's famous midnight ride to warn that the British troops were coming. The secret signal went up in the steeple of Old North Church in Boston. The Code was planned in advance. They would hang one lantern in the steeple if the troops were coming by land.
They would hang two lanterns in the steeple if the troops were coming by sea. The signal that Paul Revere saw was two lanterns. They were coming by sea. They were coming across the Charles River. And Paul Revere set off on horseback, a race to Lexington and Concord to warn everyone, to rouse the militia. And it was a successful warning.
The colonists were ready the next morning at dawn for what became the first battle of the Revolutionary War to free ourselves from British rule, to free ourselves from a king. Tonight, Old North Church in Boston, which still stands, they rang their bells at 6 p.m. tonight, and churches all over the country rang their bells to commemorate the start of our revolution.
It happened everywhere all over the country tonight at 6. I was working, prepping the show, and I heard the church down the block from me ringing its bells. I ran outside and instantly burst into tears because I'm a complete sap. But if you heard your local church or you heard anybody on street corners, anybody out ringing bells today, that was why.
It's to commemorate the start of the American Revolution 250 years ago. When I mentioned this anniversary on last night's show, you might remember we showed pictures of Old North Church in Boston. What we showed last night, though, when we had those images of Old North Church, those weren't live shots. We were just showing you the file photos that we had on hand.
I found out after we got off the air last night that while we were doing that segment on the show, this is actually what at that moment the steeple of Old North Church looked like. Something was being projected on it. As I spoke those words last night on this show about this church, you can see it says there, this is a projection on the Old North. Let the warning ride forth once more.
Tyranny is at our door. And then it's a projection, so they can change it over to other things. And then there was this one. This is quite good. I kind of can't believe I didn't think of this myself. One if by land, two if by D.C. Old North Church in Boston.
Tomorrow, on the 250th anniversary of those first battles in our revolution, the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, the battles that we won, that started the war, that we won to free us forever from ever suffering again under the tyranny of a king. Tomorrow, on that 250th anniversary, we are expecting another Saturday with protests in every state in the country.
I think at every state capital in the country, but also in general in more than 1,000 locations all across the country. Much like we saw two weeks ago at the hands-off protests, people saying, no kings. National Day of Protests tomorrow, April 19th. No kings. People expressing their opposition to this presidency.
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