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PHOTOS: Behold the Assorted Weirdness and Sparse Crowds at Trump’s Great American State Fair
The “Great American State Fair” kicked off last Thursday in Washington, D.C. While the event was ostensibly a celebration of...
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The Daily Beast
· Jun 26, 2026
Trump’s Empty ‘Great State Fair’ Exposed in Damning Photos
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThis is Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” pictured in all its crowd-free glory.The spectacle on the National Mall in Washington D.C. is ready to receive thousands of visitors. Instead it is not just line-free: it is virtually deserted.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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
Lawyers, Guns & Money
· Jul 2, 2026
Trump ruins everything
While the reality TV version of Donald Trump would have put on the best semiquincentennial celebration ever, the real one is putting on a combination of banal partisan rally and D- underfunded county fair: I stopped by the Great American State Fair on Tuesday. The website listed the day’s theme as “Innovation, Technology Progress.” [] The post Trump ruins everything appeared first on Lawyers, Guns Money.
MeidasTouch
· Jun 30, 2026
“His Party Sucks”: Congressman Doesn’t Hold Back on Trump Fair
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Associated Press
· Jun 24, 2026
LIVE: Trump hosts ‘The Great American State Fair’ for America’s 250th anniversary
Watch live from Washington as President Donald Trump hosts the Great American State Fair Kick-Off Celebration on the National Mall ahead of America's 250th birthday. #trump
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 "PHOTOS: Behold the Assorted Weirdness and Sparse Crowds at Trump’s Great American State Fair ": The Daily Beast — Trump’s Empty ‘Great State Fair’ Exposed in Damning Photos. Politizoom — It’s Too Darn Hot. Lawyers, Guns & Money — Trump ruins everything. MeidasTouch — “His Party Sucks”: Congressman Doesn’t Hold Back on Trump Fair. Associated Press — LIVE: Trump hosts ‘The Great American State Fair’ for America’s 250th anniversary. BoingBoing — Trump's Great American State Fair is "kind of rubbish"