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Opinion: Why Every Epic Fail at Trump’s ‘Great’ State Fair is a Metaphor
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters/Wikimedia Commons/Farrah TomazinA 110-foot Ferris wheel is the centerpiece of the Great American State Fair currently come to town in our nation’s capital, which is not a state the last time I checked. It is the brainchild of Freedom 250, an organization overseeing—or, rather, botching—the president’s 60 million marquee celebration of America’s 250th birthday.On opening day, the Ferris wheel stalled. It lurched. It stopped. It started. Then stopped again. Freedom 250’s spokesperson Julia Friedland called it a “power hiccup.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Talking Points Memo
· Jul 4, 2026
‘I’m Mad at Trump’: Even Trumpers Can’t Stand How Shoddy the Great American State Fair Is
‘I’m Mad at Trump’: Even Trumpers Can’t Stand How Shoddy the Great American State Fair Is
Portside
· Jul 2, 2026
The Great American State Fair Is a Great Trumpian Disaster
The Great American State Fair Is a Great Trumpian Disaster Mark Brody Thu, 07/02/2026 - 01:16
Politizoom
· Jul 4, 2026
It’s Too Darn Hot
Ha. Here is something Trump did not plan for and cannot change. Mother Nature is telling Trump something he doesn’t want to hear. The Not Great American State Fair was the Completely Empty American State Fair for a while because it’s too DAMN hot! My regards to Raw Story: The Great American State Fair on
The Daily Beast
· Jul 6, 2026
Insiders Warned of State Fair Disaster Before It Happened
Jonathan Ernst/ReutersThere were signs that Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair flop was heading for disaster even in the planning stages.Some of the states that agreed to participate in the event on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall, raised the alarm in a series of increasingly panicked emails to organizers, reported NOTUS.An irate New Hampshire organizer told Freedom 250 in a May 19 email that it was still “unclear if there are costs above and beyond what we incur as a state to staff and fill the pavilion ourselves.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
Irish Star
· Jul 8, 2026
Trump humiliation continues as state fair airs live stream to literally no one
The Great American State Fair was hit with another humiliation after a photo was posted by Meghan McCain showing empty fields
BoingBoing
· Jun 29, 2026
Trump's Great American State Fair is "kind of rubbish"
Donald Trump's Great American State Fair, that 16-day celebration of all things America currently underway at the National Mall, kicked off this weekend not with a bang, but with something more akin to a whimper. The fair, which Jason Weisberger here at Boing Boing likened to a Spirit Halloween installed inside a failing megachurch, is currently limping along, according to many of the hilarious eyewitness accounts from folks who have suffered through a visit so that we don't have to. — Read the rest The post Trump's Great American State Fair is kind of rubbish appeared first on Boing Boing.
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Related coverage for "Opinion: Why Every Epic Fail at Trump’s ‘Great’ State Fair is a Metaphor": Talking Points Memo — ‘I’m Mad at Trump’: Even Trumpers Can’t Stand How Shoddy the Great American State Fair Is. Portside — The Great American State Fair Is a Great Trumpian Disaster. Politizoom — It’s Too Darn Hot. The Daily Beast — Insiders Warned of State Fair Disaster Before It Happened. Irish Star — Trump humiliation continues as state fair airs live stream to literally no one. BoingBoing — Trump's Great American State Fair is "kind of rubbish"