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Artists keep pulling out of Great American State Fair lineup

musicMay 29, 20261153,921

Martina McBride, Morris Day and The Time, Young MC and The Commodores have pulled out of Freedom 250 Presents: The Great American State Fair, an event organized by Keith Krach, a Trump appointee. Martina McBride said "What we were told is not, in fact, what is happening" and Morris Day said he would not participate after being named; The Commodores issued a statement saying they "support the betterment of all Americans." Their departures strip marquee talent from the lineup and underscore how artists are distancing themselves from events tied to partisan organizers, threatening the event's credibility and future ticket sales.

Ricky Davila
@therickydavila.bsky.social

Here’s an updated list of artists who dropped out of the orange felon’s trashy fake state fair: Martina McBride Young MC C+C Music Factory Milli Vanilli The Commodores Morris Day & The Time Good, no one with morals should appease a fascist Dictator criminal.

94811d ago
davidonstrike22

Milli Vanilli thinking this is too fake.

Ebenezer Foxnews18

They don’t seem to be dropping out as much being shocked to learn that they were listed

@debbie15618

Kid rock will be the only one😂

AyJay10

But what about the Village Peepul? 🤪

Miami Master Photographer10

Ricky The office of #MilliVanilli denied his participation on #Freedom250 #MartinaMcBride just confirming NO participation on the same event !!! Reporting is all about properly verifying information before uploading it to social media

Rude Dog 🇲🇽🇺🇲6

Thank them by buying their music. Recommend The Time, Get it up.

Siouxzqb5

Looks like he’’ll have to call in the big guns, Kid Rock and Ted Nugent as last minute replacements. 🤣

Quinn Ellis5

Even Milli Vanilli couldn’t fake it!

TCFlyingV5

Just have RFK Jr and the Brainworms handle some snakes.

The Opinionated Retiree and Nasty Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦4

Hope they've got Lee Greenwood, Kid Rock, the Village People and Vanilla Ice on speed dial.

Sarah needs a vomit bag4

I thought Freedom from C&C made a whole ass video while sitting on the toilet defending his God given right to be a piece of shit? Huh, guess he changed his mind

Alan4

Wow, he lost Milli Vanilli. You have lost the game😳

steve3797.bsky.social4

The Child Rapist can ask his ever classy 60 year old "kid' (rock?) to do some more lip syncing if it's an early job ... As he will wothout a dbout be to drunk by noon to do it ..

Witty Librarian Resistance4

I'm still waiting on Flo Rida, has ANYONE gotten him on the phone yet?

Fuck this timeline4

Nikki Minaj and Kid Rock are probably waiting by their phones 😂

D3 - Mom, Business Woman, Ally and Friend4

When you lose Milli Vanilla…🙄

𝒲𝒜ℒ𝒯 🇪🇺💯✊🏼💙🌊🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦋🫘🔵3

Why did they ever agree in the first place?

Witchy Wild Child 🥑3

Freedom Williams did not confirm, looks like some problems about the name are about to pop!

Robin Byrd3

I hope that many more music artists not only pull out of Trump’s fake state fair, but also refuse to perform in the first place. This man deserves nothing but contempt and disgust. He will do nothing but turn America’s celebration into a celebration of himself.

Bella Thomas3

I’m sure kid rock will be more than happy to play every night 😂

Head on Fire 🔥3

The Commodores? I saw them at an FSU homecoming in 1982.

@AnotherRobin243

Trump will show up and dance.

J Cruz3

Ice Ice Baby on an hours long loop will make at least one of the MAGAs drown themselves in a port-a-potty. I’m here for it.

Lily2

When you've lost Milli Vanilli ! 😱😵

Brown Eyed Susan
@browneyedsusan.bsky.social

💀💀💀 "Exodus as stars pull out of Trump-linked 'Freedom 250' festival: 'Artists never told'" I knew Morris Day and the Time and Young MC would never do that shit. They were never even booked. 😂 Sad. Maybe, we can have Lee Greenwood sing "Proud to be an American" on a loop. Be best!

42812d ago
Brown Eyed Susan44

Veering, but Kennedy Center was telling a judge that Trump needs his name kept on it or people won't perform at the same time nobody will perform there... REALITY CHECK!

Brown Eyed Susan42

Wow! Even Milli Vanilli said to fuck off (or rather, they lip-synced it).. Who's next out?

Moose The Misanthrope ®️™️33

They'll have Kid Rot screeching in the microphone, Chachi arm wrestling Sylvester Stallone while singing take me home country roads, and Ted Nugent will stab a live pig on TV and roast it with a match, and RFK Jr eats a live snake and snorts cocaine off of porta potty seat.

GJRboston27

Carrie Underwood and Kid rock are on stnad-by

Phylosoma™25

It's difficult to be proud to be an American after everything that Trump has done 😞 Real talk 💙

Brown Eyed Susan23

Bret Michaels is out. Cheers🤣

Brown Eyed Susan16

Even the Love Boat guy shouted out to them I've read that The Commodores and Flo Rida will still perform

Brown Eyed Susan14

Isn't this fun! Martina McBride is OUT!

Brown Eyed Susan13

www.youtube.com/watch?v=627Q... THIS GUY would perform for Trump? Fuck no. He is wayyy too cool

guruvy11

Time is a friend. Time is a foe. We're so very foed up at this point. November is likely to be the barometer of any near-future change. People desperate to maintain power will use absurd & desperate measures.

Mike Loves Blues 🎶🎸📎9

Kraznov mentioned that they have drugs that bring people back to life so I expect we'll see Toby Keith signed on last minute. Who knows maybe even Hulk Hogan too. Now that would be a freak show. I am sad that Rob Ritchie's name isn't on the list..🙄

Dave Czaja7

No! Wait! It'll be the Lara Trump Comeback Tour! Featuring her new hit, Born In The USA. And Kimberly, too! She can do her Greek Dance routine. After all, the Best! Is Yet! To Come! Oh, no! Is it? Could it be? No way!!! It's Rapper B, Baron Trump, with his alter ego, Damien Da Devil, w/ his hit

Joelene (Mom of 4 dogs )📎5

Why isn’t his white trash buddy Kid not on the list?

Shawnquistador McClone5

"Oh, so there's an open slot?"

CoachN4

Oh, that news about Morris Day and the Time makes me happy and relieved.

Just_Vicki 🐾🎵💟🕉💙🌈🌻🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦4

This tracks. I would be surprised if Commodores don't pull out as well.

KevTheRev4

No Ted Nugent or Kid Rock? Could they not post bail in time? 😏

TallyAnnaE ☮️🌊 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💙🦋🐸3

Isn't Ted Nugent available? 🤣

Nina Rodham Clinton3

😂 and Bahwitabah from Kid Asshole Rock.

Cat Roadtrippin2

I'm sure Kid Rock will be the headliner.

D2

It will be kid rock and Ted Nugent 😅😅😅 .

Brandon Friedman
@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

The lineup for the National Mall event continues to shrink as artists back out

@MaryMargOlohan on X:

Freedom 250 announces the music icons who will be performing at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall June 25 through July 10: 

- Martina McBride | June 25
- C+C Music Factory | June 26
- Vanilla Ice | June 26
- Milli Vanilli | June 26
-Young MC | June 26
- The Commodores | June 27
- Morris Day and The Time | June 27
- Flo Rida | July 2
- Bret Michaels | July 3

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20612d ago
Brandon Friedman191

The Commodores are now out as well

Diedrich Bader72

Be pretty funny if it just ended up being Vanilla Ice every day all day playing the hit

Lauri Donahue13

Are they "backing out," or saying that they never agreed to participate -- or were never even contacted?

Green Hombre10

A gig too problematic for Milli Vanilli.

Joseph Britt8

They’ll be down to the Trump Family Singers at this rate.

JP Antifa6

Ivanka putting together the list:

vizslamum65.bsky.social4

C+C Music Factory frontman Freedom Williams, said he was not informed of the Great American State Fair's affiliation with Trump: "[My agent] didn't mention Trump. ... 'We're going to cancel C+C Music Factory. "So, I told my agent, 'Yeah, no, I ain't good to do that. I don't [support] Trump."

Txnewsprincess3

Wait ... the Vanilli peeled off?

MikeInSFCisco2

By next week, we will need to have to settle for listening to a recording of "Tiny Dancer" for days on end instead.

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I don’t think they’re backing out… I think it’s quite literally they were never confirmed or even asked to perform in the first place.

James Petruzzi2

Not sure which is funnier, that Milli Vanilli was invited in the first place, or that they backed out.

The Year of Glad2

There was a Vanilla Ice concert at a bar just off campus when I was in college, well into the “actually kind of sad” portion of his career. I didn’t go, but somebody threw a plastic bag full of urine onto him when he was on stage, and then a fight broke out and basically everybody got arrested.

Musicology Duck
@musicologyduck.bsky.social

who is actually going to perform at the Great American State Fair, wrong answers only

20211d ago
post malone ergo propter malone81

a supergroup including the dude from The Offspring who got fired for being an antivaxxer and the dude from Mumford and Sons who got fired for worse opinions

Jimi Eat Hendrix58

Lauryn Hill will be 12 hours late

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning41

the Karz 4 Kidz Band

Judd Greenstein37

John Ashcroft will sing "Let the Eagle Soar" (this might not be wrong, sorry)

Bensmom3335

That robot who fell on the stairs.

Stan The Dry Bear30

Roseanne, repeating her 1990 Star Spangled Banner performance

NTP_Nate26

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra. No, not the one you’re thinking of, a different one. Also Spandau Ballet.

RoninMacbeth 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇻🇪26

A horrible AI recreation of Elvis that is programmed to sing MAGA-themed versions of his songs.

Adam23

Marco Rubio will be covering all the no-shows.

Bob Dunkin17

Sgt Pedo's Empty Hearts Club Band

The Loar Axe17

Presenting... <sigh> Mike Love. He's not going to sing any songs, but he's going to spend the whole set growling into a mic taking credit for writing all of the songs he's not singing.

state song thread guy16

AI-generated hologram of Jimi Hendrix but they've made him white

thomaslthomson3.bsky.social16

The teams of lawyers who represent the three surviving members of Pink Floyd (and through whom all communications between the three of them are relayed) doing improv acapella.

Dr. Stephanie13

Surprisingly, “Kid Rock” is a valid choice here

Angus Dwyer12

January 6 choir is available

Mr. HP12

Stephen Colbert's going to show up with a musical version of the Colbert Report and the people he's making fun of won't realize he's making fun of them until the last song.

Alex aka Muscato12

Three women, each of whom separately ran into Mary Wilson at some point in the mid-‘70s (most of them in a ladies room at a Los Angeles nightclub) and now claim to be the Supremes.

April Glick Pulito11

Harrison Butker will be performing kicking

i010

hans zimmer feat. anna netrebko

brynne ridley9

An AI-generated hologram of Richard Wagner

DioneNYC7

PUPPET SHOW AND SPINAL TAP

J.M. "Butlerian Jihad Now" Kirkness6

Angus MacGonagle the Gargling Gargoyle.

Coffee Porter Jr.5

azealia banks kidzbopifying her own lyrics

This Person Stinks5

The Presidents of the United States of America

I Don’t Want No Scabs5

AI hologram of Frank Sinatra singing My Way on a loop

William H. Devereaux5

Some MAGA parent who's on the board of their kid's youth orchestra in the DC suburbs will decide it's a chance to get the orchestra some exposure.

Truth Axe (CJ)4

Anthrax. I mean, if RFK Jr. has anything to do with this.

Chris Conaton4

The Defiant, the supergroup made up of Dicky Barrett from the Bosstones, the guitarist from Smashmouth, and other antivax Trumpers, are sitting by the phone and hoping right now.

Tax Wealth not Wages4

Elvis. Trump spoke to him just last week.

Pellechs 3

Glenn Beck discovering the lyrics to Born in the USA in real time

Mark J. Knippel3

A Love Supreme featuring Bill Clinton on tenor sax

Kevin3

Is Mike Huckabee still playing bass?

Wanda Maximoff (she/her)3

Jesse Welles Unironically, Mike Love

economymedicine.bsky.social2

A special one time only Trump produced version of Starlight Express the greatest musical about roller skating trains having sex starring members of the administration

Sam Walker2

Guy Fieri backed by the animatronic Country Bear Musical Jamboree band

Lisa Jaffe2

The cheapest Elvis impersonator available on short notice.

juli2

A completely wasted Don Jr. in retaliation for his wedding snub, performing Por Ti Volaré

Kyra2

the guy who sings "Take A Knee, My Ass (I Won't Take A Knee)" (sorry @erinkmaher.bsky.social for putting this in your head again)

Annie M 🇨🇦2

Hologram ABBA but they only sing the Greenland national anthem

MKSutherland2

Kash Patel’s girlfriend, Laura trump,

Meredith Plays Horn 2

A colleague and I used to have something we'd call the "Shit Philharmonic," which was kinda a fantasy orchestra made up of all the assholes/jerks/d-bags we've met who we didn't enjoy working with. Anyways, this sounds like the *perfect* gig for the Shit Philharmonic

Kyle L2

The animatronic band from Chuck E Cheese.

Reiver Horse2

Bruce Springstreen. But only Born In The USA. :)

Pat2

fat white family?? LOL www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKNt...

✨Shiv2

someone with ties to Fyre Fest

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