White House staffers scrambled to scrub social media evidence of Donald Trump's humiliating turnout at his "Great American State Fair" opening after the president blew his top over aerial photos documenting the sparse crowd for the rally he headlined.According to CNN reporting, Trump was "infuriated...
It’s an awful layout for a poorly planned fair.
Nobody wants to stand in the open fields during a heatwave with nothing to do. Those fields are huge too, they fit thousands of people. So the pictures were always going to be pathetic. No matter what.
That the booths are also just glorified stamp collecting with empty chairs, the entertainment sucks, and nobody wants to be affiliated is the cherry on top of the shit cake though. You can’t even get some good photos with paid extras inside.
I’m willing to bet hotels cost too much and they didn’t advertise either. Probably whoever organized it spent all their money on those ridiculous tents and pocketed the rest (or cut a deal with the tent vendor, like Parks and Rec)
The original America250 plan was created a decade ago by a bi-partisan group. Trump’s Freedom250 was created in January 2025.
Even then, he had more than a year to come up with some great attractions.
I expect across the entire USA you guys could do better than a Ferris wheel.
Old joke.
A scientist is incredibly vain. He gets hired to work with a disease that causes human skin to putrefy. One day he discovers he’s caught the disease. He looks in the mirror, and the skin is literally rotting off his face.
“Yes, but on me, it looks good.”
Six months from now he’ll be boasting about how splendid it was.