https://www.europesays.com/people/149545/ Donald Trump’s Son Barron Skipped One of His Biggest Family Events #BarronTrump #DonaldTrump #GreatAmericanStateFair #IvankaTrump #MelaniaTrump #Trump #YoungestSon
#great-american-state-fair — Public Fediverse posts
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NASA at the Great American State Fair
#DC #Freedom250 #GreatAmericanStateFair(GASF) #JaredIsaacman #KatiePavlich #NASAAdministrator #NationalMall #USA
⏩ 16 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22NASA+Library+files+uploaded+by+OptimusPrimeBot%22&sort=create_timestamp_desc&ns6=1
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After all the fallout from the #GreatAmericanStateFair, I'm happy to share an update from the SBA's Sacramento District Office: the top 10 semifinalists for the Freedom 250 Patriot Pitch will be announced this Thurs., July 9th.
I'm looking forward to seeing who the judges selected. Will the winning pitches show "Main Street" grit or the high-polish, AI-assisted narratives like some of the entries I've reviewed on YouTube?
LMK what you think of my analysis:
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https://www.europesays.com/people/142923/ Donald Trump’s Son Barron Skipped One of His Biggest Family Events #BarronTrump #DonaldTrump #GreatAmericanStateFair #IvankaTrump #MelaniaTrump #Trump #YoungestSon
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MAGA supporters erupt in calls to free a MAGA influencer after he gets busted for allegedly committing lewd acts toward performers at Donald Trump's failing #GreatAmericanStateFair. @[email protected] and @[email protected] break it down on #TheDamageReport
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7 on Advanced Life Support After Visiting DC’s State Fair
The Great American State Fair closed early on Friday after emergency crews treated dozens of visitors, many…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Dc #departmentofhealthandhumanservices #DistrictofColumbia #extremeheat #greatamericanstatefair #heat #heatwave #Heatwave #hospitals #injuries #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Washington
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When the #GreatAmericanStateFair is more horror #backrooms than the Backrooms movie. #happy4thofjuly
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MAGA scholar of some ilk claims someone afflicted by Trump Derangement Syndrome ‘geoengineered’ the DC heatwave.
#DC #WashingtonDC #heatwave #weather #Greatamericanstatefair #maga #science #morons #breaking #news #fourthofjuly
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As a native and current Carolina girl, I am not at all surprised. Here's the thing: the state of North Carolina declined to officially participate in the Great American State Fair in Washington, DC. So ... who is responsible for the North Carolina display? And what reason would they for including a Confederate flag in the display video? I'm just sayin'. If it was not created *by* the state of North Carolina, to *represent* the state of North Carolina ... then who would want to create a video depicting the state flying a Confederate flag?
> Mt. Olive Pickle Company has withdrawn from the Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C., after learning that North Carolina’s exhibit included a video briefly showing a Confederate flag. The company said it had not been aware the image would be part of the display and reaffirmed its commitment to “human dignity, opportunity, and freedom.” The controversy adds to a difficult start for the Trump-backed America 250 event, which has also faced low attendance, extreme heat that sent multiple people to the hospital, and several Democratic-led states declining to participate. The Confederate flag image was later removed from the exhibit, with organizers saying it appeared only briefly in a historical video about North Carolina’s past.
#aaronparnas #substack #uspolitics
#northcarolina #trump #uspol #greatamericanstatefair
#confederateflag #america250
#mtolivepickles #washingtondchttps://open.substack.com/pub/aaronparnas/p/important-update-white-nationalists
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There’s something very #weird about the #GreatAmericanStateFair. I don’t think it qualifies as a #WeirdTown, given its temporary status, but it does have a certain inherent falsity in common with them. Here’s a post I did on #weirdtowns a few years ago.
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There’s something very #weird about the #GreatAmericanStateFair. I don’t think it qualifies as a #WeirdTown, given its temporary status, but it does have a certain inherent falsity in common with them. Here’s a post I did on #weirdtowns a few years ago.
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Looks like more of the President's fine people coming in to Washington DC to celebrate the birth of our nation today.
Photo from this morning on the DC metro.
Edit: This is not my photo - it was run by Reuters and taken by @orr_photo on X.#America250 #IndependenceDay #fourthofjuly #racist #hate #washingtondc #DC #photo #America #greatamericanstatefair #DCmetro #NOVA #DMV #nationalnews
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There’s almost something kind of eerie about the catastrophe that is the #GreatAmericanStateFair …
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Trump Event eskaliert: So tödlich ist die aktuelle Hitzewelle wirklich!
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https://www.europesays.com/news/48893/ Great American State Fair Shuts Down Amid Heat #250thAnniversary #DonaldTrump #ExtremeHeat #FireworksDisplay #freedom250 #GreatAmericanStateFair #Headlines #July4th #News #SaluteToAmericaCelebration #TopStories #TrumpSpeechJuly4th #WashingtonDC
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https://www.europesays.com/people/139240/ Trump heads to Mount Rushmore as heat bears down on America 250 celebrations in DC #250thAnniversary #america #celebration #country #firework #GreatAmericanStateFair #heat #holiday #mcnd #MountRushmore #nation #NewYorkCity #people #POTUS #PresidentDonaldTrump #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #PresidentTrump #Seattle #Trump #US #washington
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https://www.europesays.com/news/48802/ Great American State Fair Postponed Due To Extreme Heat In D.C. #GreatAmericanStateFair #Headlines #News #TopStories
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#Repost @cspan
Organizers temporarily shut down the Great American State Fair just before 1pm ET on Friday due to extreme heat, with temperatures approaching triple digits.The fair is expected to reopen at 5pm ET.
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Great American State Fair Postponed Due To Extreme Heat In D.C.
It is HOT out there! The Great American State Fair is shutting down until 5 pm today due…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #greatamericanstatefair #UnitedStates #Us #USA
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Blistering heat postpones Great American State Fair, attendees cleared from National Mall
Those attending the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in D.C. on Friday were forced to…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #dcheat #dcweather #greatamericanstatefair #national-mall #UnitedStates #Us #USA
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Great American State Fair Postponed Due To Extreme Heat In D.C.
#News #GreatAmericanStateFairhttps://deadline.com/2026/07/great-american-state-fair-postponed-extreme-heat-d-c-1236973908/
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Don't call it a 'Climate Crisis' though..
#Heatwave #GreatAmericanStateFair #Trump #American250 #ClimateCrisis
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Temu arch 😂🤣
'Ancient Romans would be laughing their a**** off'
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1D9hnkS444/
#GreatAmericanStateFair #Trump #uspol #trumpisapedo #epsteinfiles #fucktrump #epsteinclass #TemuArch #trumpthecon
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“It is generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended”*…
An aerial view of the Sesquicentennial International Exposition in PhiladelphiaScheduling note: as tomorrow is July 4, (Roughly) Daily will be off. Regular service will resume on July 5… and should continue uninterrupted for awhile. Meantime…
The “Great American State Fair,” ostensibly celebrating the 250th birthday of the U.S., is having a rocky run. After the talent for what was presented to them as a bi-partisan event largely withdrew, the Fair’s champion, President Trump, converted the opening into an unabashed “Trump Rally.” Thereafter, sparse attendance, equipment issues, high prices, and other embarassments.
As it happens, President Trump has some historical company. 100 years ago, in Philadelphia, dicey politicians hoped to replicate the success of the 1876 Centennial Exposition with a celebration of America’s 150th birthday. Instead, the 1926 “world’s fair” lost millions of dollars, hobbling the city’s finances on the eve of the Great Depression. Meilan Solly reports…
A century ago, the first visitors to Philadelphia’s Sesquicentennial International Exposition—held to mark the 150th anniversary of the United States’ founding—waded through mud and wandered along unpaved sidewalks to reach the heart of the fairgrounds, only to find carpenters still at work on half-finished exhibition halls and gaping holes marking the spots where attractions had yet to be built.
Dining and shopping options were limited, and some of the few exhibits on view stretched the very definition of “entertainment.” One was a model Post Office where “you could go send yourself a letter and watch it get canceled,” says historian Thomas H. Keels, author of Sesqui! Greed, Graft and the Forgotten World’s Fair of 1926. “That was it.”
The 200,000-plus Shriners in town for their fraternal organization’s national convention realized that their parades and rallies were the main events planned for these early days of the fair. Many went home disappointed, telling family and friends that the exposition wasn’t worth visiting…
Held in Philadelphia between May 31 and December 31, 1926, the fair—referred to as the Sesqui—celebrated the 150th anniversary of the United States’ founding. Little remembered today, the event was a financial failure that Varietydeemed “America’s greatest flop.” Exact figures are hard to come by, but Keels suggests that the fair lost the equivalent of more than $410 million in today’s dollars, effectively bankrupting the city of Philadelphia.
The exposition was America’s main celebration of the sesquicentennial. Congress authorized the fair and provided limited funding for it, in addition to issuing commemorative coins and encouraging local celebrations, but the scale of federal participation paled in comparison with that of the 1976 bicentennial and this year’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Attendance at the Sesquicentennial Exposition also failed to match the numbers of Philadelphia’s 1876 centennial celebration, which attracted roughly 20 percent of the country’s population in an era when planes, cars and luxury liners had yet to make long-distance travel more accessible. Organizers predicted that 30 million people would visit the 1926 fair; ultimately, fewer than five million paid to attend. [For comparison, more than 44 million people visited the “World of Tomorrow” at the 1939-40 New York World’s Fair. Two and a half decades later, 51 million visitors flocked to the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair.]
What doomed the sesquicentennial? Poor planning and lukewarm reviews by the fair’s early visitors contributed to the disastrous outcome. So, too, did the streak of bad weather that plagued Philadelphia during the exposition’s run, with rain falling on more than half of the days the fair was open to the public.
Although some observers considered the lackluster public response a sign that the golden age of world’s fairs had come to an end, Chicago’s 1933-34 Century of Progress Exposition proved this prediction wrong, drawing more visitors than any of its predecessors. Overall, Keels attributes the 1926 fair’s failure to its “association with what was being viewed as an increasingly corrupt political machine,” headed by Pennsylvania Republican William Scott Vare.
After the fair incurred “nationwide ridicule,” Keels tells Smithsonian magazine, Vare and other local politicians were eager to move on from the endeavor, selling off leftover structures piecemeal “for pennies on the hundreds of dollars.” This push to forget the sesquicentennial has reverberated into the present: Just one building constructed for the 1926 fair stands in Philadelphia today…
More of the macabre story: “America’s 150th Birthday Celebration Was Deemed the Nation’s ‘Greatest Flop.’ What Went Wrong With the Sesquicentennial?” from @smithsonianmag.bsky.social.
Apposite: “America Is Trapped in the Grossest Pool Party of All Time.”
* John Steinbeck
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As we rethink recreation, we might celebrate one of the great “public parties” of all time, recalling that it was on this date in 1970 that the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival opened in a soybean field adjacent to the Middle Georgia Raceway in Byron, Georgia. Running officially through the 5th (but actually ending around dawn on the 6th), 500-600,000 folks attended a festival designed to foster a sense of community that transcended race, region, and social class. And while the weather was boiling (local farmers brought watermelons and cantaloupes to help attendees), and there were reports of occasional nudity and recreational drug use, the three days were essentially trouble free… and a blast.
Performers included The Allman Brothers Band, the Chambers Brothers, Richie Havens, Grand Funk Railroad, It’s a Beautiful Day, B.B. King, Lee Michaels, Mott the Hoople, Mountain, Poco, Procol Harum, Rare Earth, John Sebastian, the Bob Seger System, Spirit, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter– and the Jimi Hendrix Experience who, at midnight on this date in 1970, played his rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” for nearly 500,000 people—the largest crowd of Hendrix’s career.
Georgia’s “colorful” governor at the time, Lester Maddox, who had tried repeatedly to prevent the festival from taking place, vowed that he would do whatever it took to block any similar event in the future. The state legislature willingly complied and enacted sufficient restrictions to make it much more difficult for anyone to organize another rock festival in the state. A third Atlanta Pop Festival never took place.
Georgia’s loss. As “Abraham Lincoln” said (in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure), “Be excellent to each other. And… PARTY ON, DUDES!”
#AllmanBrothers #AtlantaInternationalPopFestival #AtlantaPopFestival #culture #Georgia #GreatAmericanStateFair #history #JimiHendrix #LesterMaddox #music #Philadelphia #politics #pop #rock #SesquicentennialInternationalExposition -
> Then there’s the ongoing debacle of the “Great American State Fair.” ... Held on the National Mall, it was supposed to feature exhibits from every state, along with a giant Ferris wheel, carnival rides, movie screenings, concerts, and military flyovers.
What’s missing from all of this?
People.
At least ten states—Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Pennsylvania—have confirmed they will not officially participate. ...
Even Fox News has struggled to put a positive spin on the dismal attendance.
#thepoliticschicks #monicahealy
#substack #uspol #uspolitics
#trump #greatamericanstatefair
#america250 #connecticut
#illinois #maine #massachusetts
#northcarolina #oregon
#RhodeIsland #vermont #washington #Pennsylvaniahttps://open.substack.com/pub/thepoliticschicks/p/when-the-fireworks-fade
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New Hampshire has a booth at White House-backed fair in DC
WASHINGTON (WCAX) – New Hampshire is showcasing its contributions to American culture at the Great American State Fair…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #D.C. #greatamericanstatefair #newhampshire #News #theWhiteHouse #TrumpAdministration #Vermont #vt #washington #wcax
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https://www.europesays.com/3104090/ New Hampshire has a booth at White House-backed fair in DC #DC #GreatAmericanStateFair #NewHampshire #News #TheWhiteHouse #TrumpAdministration #Vermont #vt #washington #wcax
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An on-the-ground report from the #GreatAmericanStateFair put on by #Freedom250 on the National Mall. Not only is nobody there, nothing is there - it's not about visitors, it's about grift.
"It’s hard to overstate the mismatch between the tens of millions of dollars that have gone to Freedom 250 and the result on the ground"
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-great-american-state-fairs-main-exhibit-is-trump-corruption
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Democrats Say Trump’s ‘Freedom 250’ Duped Donors and Siphoned Millions From America’s Birthday http://dlvr.it/TTKcTl #corruption #Freedom250 #GreatAmericanstatefair
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https://www.europesays.com/news/48267/ CNN Host Says Trump Was ‘Enraged’ By State Fair Photo: ‘Officials Ended Up Deleting Them’ #AdamKinzinger #CNN #DonaldTrump #GreatAmericanStateFair #Headlines #KaitlanCollins #News #TopStories
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Big Wide Open Places
cartoon by Joe Hellerhttps://www.facebook.com/share/p/18kJFjvXkt/
#StateFair #GreatAmericanStateFair #uspol #PoliticalCartoon #cartoon #JoeHeller #usa #trumpGestapo #trumpRegime #fucktrump
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Trump außer sich vor Wut | US Geburtstag wird zum Desaster!
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“Trump’s fascination with #AI #presidents is nothing new. The president’s lackluster #GreatAmericanStateFair features its own AI #GeorgeWashington to chat with attendees—what few of them there are.” newrepublic.com/post/212650/...
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“Trump’s fascination with #AI #presidents is nothing new. The president’s lackluster #GreatAmericanStateFair features its own AI #GeorgeWashington to chat with attendees—what few of them there are.” newrepublic.com/post/212650/...
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Aaaand that's why we mock the "Great American State Fair!"
Nothing matters more to Trump than these vanity projects. You know what to do.
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We have him absolutely nailed, don't we?
It's just like that orange turd to do a publicity stunt like that.
I'm so glad he's about as popular as a shit stain on your clean white hotel towels.
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Truth Social post incoming after midnight?
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Zoom in on the reflection in the glasses.
#Trump #GreatAmericanStateFair
https://bsky.app/profile/trumps-tiny-peen.bsky.social/post/3mpjreg5pmk2z
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Just how fortuitous was it that the Freedom 250 group was able to find the 250 people from Washington who voted for Trump and get them to show up for The Great America State Fair?
Right up there for numbers with his Inauguration or when he shows up in NYC.
#america250 #Freedom250 #washington #trump #greatamericanstatefair
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There were more people in the audience for this duo at the #MinnesotaStateFair than the #GreatAmericanStateFair back in 2018. Sure, a rainy Tuesday brought the attendance down, but I'm willing to wager these guys were more entertaining than whatever acts are on stage today.
