The Artist General's Letter to President Donald J Trump About America 250
Dear President Donald J Trump,
With July 4th, 2026 and the 250th anniversary of the United States of America on the horizon, I heard you repeat Field of Dreams's If you build it, they will come in your speeches, so I thought about The Art of War, and how We The People need art and artists to build and carpenter the celebration of America through revolutionary story telling of the past, present, and future.
We need revolutionary patriotic writers. We need revolutionary singers. We need revolutionary photographers. We need revolutionary films. We need patriotic revolutionary artists to travel our beautiful country celebrating Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We need armies of artists glorifying God and our country. America needs an artistic revolution.
We need an army of artists to write about the American dream, and not the three bedroom house and picket fence nightmare, but the dream of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. The dream of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail or the Pacific Crest Trail. The dream of driving Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica Pier and watching the Cubs win the World Series. The dream of being a United States Marine and then becoming a writer, artist, and teacher. The American dream of living on the beach and then living in the mountains. The American dream of being able to raise children, while exploring and experiencing the United States of America or the American dream of homesteading. The American dream of living Life Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
We need American artists to write, sing, and make films about American’s amazing history, so we never forget our sacrifices and our sins and our trespasses and trespassers. We need American artists to write, sing, and make films about the American Revolution, our Constitution, and our Bill of Rights. We need American artists to write, sing, and make films write about the fallen unknown like Sean Casey and John Cook who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroics [as a fifteen year old boy] fighting in the Battle of Antietam. We need American artists to write, sing, and make films about our fallen heroes and take photos of the fallen’s tombs, so we will never forget their names and sacrifices. We must never forget the fallen. We need an army of artists to write about small towns like Lincoln, New Hampshire or Estes, Colorado or Diamondhead, Mississippi or Clayton, California.
We need an army of American artists to write, sing, and make films about the Presidential Mountain range in New Hampshire’s White Mountains and Mount Washington, which is pound-for-pound deadlier than Mount Everest. We need an army of American artists to write, sing, and make films about Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and John Muir. We need an army of American artists to write, sing, and make films about J. D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, and Kurt Vonnegut. We need American artists to write, sing, and make films about their experiences of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
We need an army of American artists to write, sing, and make films to inspire the next Thomas Jefferson or Theodore Roosevelt. We need an army of American artists to write, sing, and make films to inspire the next George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. There would be no greater honor than to enlist, commission, raise, and train an army of American artists to revolutionize America for her 250th celebration of 1776, so I am offering my pen and my sword as the Artist General of The Artistic Lifestyle Revolution for Truth and Justice, God and country.
Semper Fidelis, Matthew Joseph “Doctor Brdman” Brdecka Artist General The Artistic Lifestyle drbrdman@TheArtisticLifestyle.com www.TheArtisticLifestyle.com