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Multiple artists drop out of Trump-linked Freedom 250 concerts

musicMay 30, 2026856,330

Martina McBride, Bret Michaels, Young MC and other headline acts withdrew from the Freedom 250 concert series after saying they were misled about the show's ties to President Donald Trump. Freedom 250 announced its first lineup for the Great American State Fair, a centerpiece of the nationwide 250th anniversary celebrations, only hours before the pullouts. President Trump urged canceling the Freedom 250 concerts and said he would take the artists' places and headline the Great American State Fair, claiming he draws "larger audiences than Elvis." The withdrawals leave the fair's music program in limbo and could force organizers to rework high-profile 250th anniversary programming.

Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com

Trump had an especially shitty day today. Bad for him, good for us. ☠️ Artists are canceling Trump-linked Freedom 250 concerts in droves ☠️ A federal judge ordered Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center ☠️ A judge halted Trump’s $1.8 billion slush-fund

344610d ago
They Call Me Gary66

🤔 What a perfect day for the court to deny Trump from closing the Kennedy Center and take Trumps name off it. Perfect❗👍

Glenn42

A bad day for Trump is a good day for America , regardless of the issue at hand.

pembrokemeg.bsky.social23

I love this finally, we the people get our revenge tour!!!

@debbie15619

I love that for him

Spooky Dad19

Now just arrest the fucking pedophile and throw him and all his conspirators behind bars.

Jani Aho14

Some small ripples of sanity for a change from the clown country.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN VIEWS13

So sad that Trump had to go and mess up our 250th celebration.

Volcanohead 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈13

I actually envy the individuals who get to strip his godsfuckingawful name off the face of the Kennedy Center. I hope his chest hurts. Little blood clots, do your thang.

Very 🫘11

I would like to watch live video of his name being removed from the facade and how quickly they’re able to repair the holes left behind as if it was never there.

MarvLS111

Great friday news dump for a change! The late-night weekend tweets are going to be Bigly Desperate🤣 And the emergency "Distraction Task Force" is going to be in overdrive🤣

Lmlang11

May all the rest of his days be shitty. Each one worse than the day before.

GAK [MBA/MA] 🇦🇺🇺🇸9

Courts ruling against Trump is great but... A court order is only as good as its enforcement. If Trump the loser baby chooses to ignore an order, no one is gonna enforce it and you end up in the same place as if there has been no court order.

Wanda Maree8

Cool. Can we also put a supreme court halt to the demolition and construction on the White House grounds? It was never legally approved and should be removed and restored as it was previously. He's vandalizing our property.

raittafan.bsky.social8

We The People are fed up! F’ing tired of it. Cl an out ALL the houses: White House House of Representatives Senate SCOTUS! Clean up on aisle 4-7.

Digital Relic 🌀7

You forgot to include the new investigation opened by the Florida judge into the J6 slush-fund collusive settlement. The entire Drumpf cabinet will need to hire lawyers. @meidastouch.com youtu.be/bYhi3KGHvF0?...

Ernesto7

Statements from #TheCommodores and from #MilliVanilli Talent Agency Both are denies participation on #Freedom250 #Trump your event is falling down brick by brick !!! #GreatAmericanStateFair #USDemocracy

BobbiefromIL6

bsky.app/profile/ebis... Trump is organizing replacements.

Uniongrl ☮️ 🌍🎵🌻🦋5

As Ice Cube once said "It was a good day." I hope someone films the removal of Trumpet name from the building!

Big Scotty K5

Being MAGA now means that you like terrible music between flop 250 and the Super Bowl.

hipstitch.bsky.social5

In other news…workers at the ketchup bottling companies are working overtime to meet the sudden demand!

Dr. V. The Reckoner5

I reckon this gives me hope that democracy may not be dead quite yet

Solisette5

Jeanine Pirro had a bad day too, I heard.

l’il bigisland5

His vulnerabilities are being exposed. Good & bad news. His frailty is showing so he will be particularly vicious towards some marginalized or vulnerable people, thinking he’s showing how powerful he is. It amplifies his decline & impotence. And how dangerous he is to decency.

Proudly Resisting5

May the rest of his days be just as awful.

Scott B4

An add’l court ruling today worth noting: Pirro told she can’t simply dismiss indictments vs. oath keepers, et al without factually detailing to the court how doing so is in the public interest.

steve3797.bsky.social4

...Pray for RAIN on the Toddlers Birthday "Party" ..

Jim Thompson4

And the judge in his IRS case gaveled it back into court

Dang3

Also his butt is huge and he's orange.

Who has all the money?3

And he cares more about these three things than the death of a thousand Americans. He truly does not care what happens to anybody but him.

@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social3

Too bad, so sad, it was a great day for everyone else!!!

Joanne Belknap3

He gonna be shit posting all night and sleeping all day! I prefer to have him asleep. Less damage he can do. I keep thinking about all the crap historians will have to analyze about him and his Nazi chums for centuries.

falalala50.bsky.social3

Great day…and I am certain the ketchup is hitting the walls in the White House this evening!!

SAM3

Let tRump-pedo dance to the YMCA song, that’s always a favorite of the Reich!

Sharon Eaton3

Yes. Maybe the best day for me of Trump's second term.

Dead Inside3

Maybe everyone should throw garbage at the White House, like as a new tradition. Maybe collect from dog parks first, idk

Winton3

Too bad there’s too few actual judges on the Supreme Court.

Tina Webb3

Yes he has. My guess he’ll use the weekend to come up with some fresh new hell for Monday morning.

tamara1m.bsky.social3

May the rest of his miserable life be filled with the shittiest of days!

Euros29993

If only the judicial branch would actually do its mandated job prescribed by the founding members of our constitution and that congress would actually do ITS job of checking the out of control megalomaniac and impeach his ass along with all the cabinet members. - ,-

Caroline P2

Looks like it's gonna be Kid Rock on all 8 stages! 🤣😂🤣🤣

Will Neuhauser 🗽⚖️🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱2

and once again he couldn’t choose which bad option he wants to end the iran war on, so he’s stuck in his own stalemate.

John H2

Wow, even HR Puff & Stuff declined the invitation to trumps 250 boondoggle

BJ2

I love this for him ❤️☺️

Leslie A. Larson2

Are people finally figuring it out???

Diana Blakely2

Bravo and Brava mes amies.

KelliE2

I celebrate every victory. Keep ‘em coming, judiciary. 🥂

Jamie007 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇺🇸2

Sounds like a pretty good day to me. 🇺🇸

Hopeful in AZ
@shimanti.bsky.social

All those artists cancelling their Freedom 250 gig & saying they didn’t know it was political should be lining up to play at Bruce Springsteen’s Power to the People Festival. It has been a lonely slog for Bruce. Much respect. Big names, where are you? Time to show up. #PowerToThePeople #Springsteen

90310d ago
Albino Badguy
@albinobadguy.bsky.social

I wish people would stop calling this some sort of Freedom 250 event as if it's for the USA. That would be on July 4th, not June 14th. This is a spoiled cry baby getting his B-Day party, and having to force people to show up because nobody likes him.

26410d ago
Albino Badguy14

The Partridge Family will not be attending Freedom 250 concert.

Albino Badguy14

Well, here we go... "The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed."

OBTinia 🏳️‍🌈 🌻📚8

Casting call of our troops to be used as props

Albino Badguy6

Anyone have bands to add to the list of who will not be preforming?

Pattis6 💙🇺🇸☮️💙🇺🇦6

His party is mostly scantily clad men fighting each other. Then he demands the service men that are invited to have certain measurements including short sleeve shirts. WTF is this a gay for a day birthday party for Mr. Don boy?

pamc84.bsky.social5

Fuck tRump & his childish goddamn birthday party 🖕

❤️KathiInCali☀️5

The 250 event is on July 4th. His nasty birthday party is the UFC fights, on June 14th.🤮

❤️KathiInCali☀️5

The 🤡 admin full of ignorant/unqualified morons, most who don’t know a damn thing abt politics or civics. Top 🤡 has full blown dementia, obesity, elephant sized cankles, and can’t stay awake, in a room full of ppl that HE invited to be there, wants military height/weight ratio? ICE won’t qualify.😂

Jerdog M.4

You can refuse illegal orders.

beetlebaum2.bsky.social4

Praying for rain....the torrential variety

Phoenix5314

I may have only been in 4th grade, but the buildup to the Bicentennial was great. The shit show 50 years later is disgraceful.

G.H. Peters3

Casting show for the master race representatives?

eddiegaedel3

If they're really doing a No Kings march the same day, why not make it the Million Antifa March & try for a million-plus people in the streets of D.C., clogging everything. Meet at the Reflecting Void. The only downside might be a re-enactment of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

Matt3

and left off that report? The troops that do decide to go? They have to pay to get in out of their own pocket. They have to be "height/weight appropriate" (I'm sure that's a Pete thing) and bring cash.

ginalolajupiter.bsky.social2

Looks like a cheap fair

Dagg Dibrimi2

So, Trump wants to have a stadium full of young, buff, muscly men at his party? Am I reading that right?

Jeff2

He might be able to get Cleetus the town drunk to do a little dancing on stage.

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