Great American State Fair has rocky opening with outages and sparse crowds
I need to find some wide open spaces to just take a break from people. I think I'll go to Donald's Great American State Fair in DC.
MadGreek 🧿17Can I bring my dog there? Sadly he has diarrhea and I just need to find a place where he can do his business and we don't need to pick up after him. You have no idea what I been dealing with... (Based on a true story)
VagrantGuru10He should call it the unfair.
Robyn9You can’t they’ve already shut it down bsky.app/profile/adam...
Christian Petersen8I didn't think Trump could outdo his fascist, squeaky-tank parade for its absolute cringeworthy patheticness. But his Great American State Fair is really giving it a run for its money. Happy Birthday America!
Jeff8Looks like the quietest place in DC. Well, except for the Kennedy Center.
mischievous-lingo.bsky.social7If you need to find a place where there are guaranteed to be no MAGA freaks - go to the library
Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.
Mike Bloom204"No one knows who they were or what they were doing"
Ozhole111There's a third grader out there who is very proud of this.
Ruth Zakarin108I mean the whole event has the feel of diorama day in elementary school so really this makes total sense
twistmeyer.bsky.social59They should have left it solid and painted a crowd in the opening part, like Wile-e-coyote.
Big Spooky ColBosch54Wait. WAIT. Are all the decorations printed on?
Hellishchildren35There wasn't time to replace the angel with a golden Trump fist. June 23, 2026 archive.ph/aRXsT Trump asked whether it would be feasible to add a giant "fight, fight, fight" fist atop the proposed 250-foot “Arc de Trump” monument in D.C.
L Ron Mexico27If I was there, I’d push on the columns like Samson and have my friend unplug the blower to this thing
Keare Cryos 20+ (3/3 Story Comms)4Can't wait for the news, so then I can quote this. "And you did get your wish - to forever be remembered in the same breath as the Mona Lisa." Glass Onion is a great movie, very telling too.
Dan Chibnall4This looks like if the Backrooms got drunk after a concussion
chiller4Whoever made the mock up should absolutely be in charge of doing the real thing. It's perfect. The perfect moment to trump.
attractive girls consume books3a middle school theater props department would be offended if you suggested they made it
RogueResistanceKnitter 🥄🐸2Nothing but the best quality. 😬🙄
Amy New (shop 🔗n bio)2Anyone put this in VRchat yet?
Witty Librarian Resistance2What a tacky, ill-drawn eyesore that is.
the sixers worrier2@gavsteed.bsky.social clear schedule after 3pm Wednesday for an offsite leadership event
Alternative View, Pacific Northwest2Did they build this out of leftover parts from the East Wing? I wouldn’t knock on it like that though. Parts might fall off and kill someone or something.
the great american state fair is more evidence that you cannot manufacture the vibes
Nigel Garbage65Oh, they manufactured vibes alright
Hellscape Navigator58ten thousand right wing bots on X cant attend a fair after all
Miranda Miller (fastest Mario)32I love that they couldn’t get people out for a free outdoor fair in the Capitol. I used to go to the county fair every year and I didn’t even like it that much. People love idle outdoor shit in the summer. The value proposition doesn’t have to be very high.
bridget14The vibes are in LA and Atlanta and Philly and Miami and all the other World Cup host cities where people from all over the world are having the time of their lives together but go off with your melted ice cream and arch that looks like it’s straight out of an episode of Trading Spaces, DJT
Curtis 🏳️🌈13If we slap a tariff on the vibes, will that bring the manufacturing back
MacAllan Guy7I grew up in a state fair town and I cannot express the vibes as “last day of a month long fair at 12:30 when the gates close at 6pm” the whole event has, it’s not quite dead enough for vendors to start packing up but they’d rather be anywhere else.
Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈88Trumpists desperately want Third Reich results but are absolutely uninterested in the Third Reich pomp and bombast which conceals those results
Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST56They are so desperate to be loved on their own terms, & all they can muster is a half-full Republican pep rally with soldiers who've been ordered or voluntold to attend. I would much rather have real justice than poetic justice, but it ain't nothing.
Doug Mack41this is especially true and funny considering that we're also hosting the world cup and it's been *all* vibes and the president can't even have the sense to piggyback on that
escapedexplorer.bsky.social6Corollary: but you absolutely can use ATTEMPTS to manufacture vibes as a true vibe check For example, the great american state fair's vibe is best classified as "washed af" and "potemkin village but they can't even make the facades look non-dogshit"
John D in Bawlmer 🏳️🌈2What's truly hilarious is that these MFers truly thought they COULD manufacture the vibes
remarkable that they haven't been able to fill this fake state fair thing with MAGA idiots. dead movement.
Cooper Lund51I think about this with Jan 6th a lot. How many people was it, less than ten thousand before everyone stated breaking into the Capitol?
kth24The tank parade went over this badly, and that was like a year ago
Odd Hack17Too scared of the urban crime environment
Negativepeace16they can’t afford tickets AND gas for their pavement princess monster trucks
radically pro-transgender hate monger8This would be the prime timing for people to go too, this week is going to be a hundred degrees (actual temp). What few people even show up are going to end up with heat stroke
Terri8The only reason Jan 6 was able to happen was the billionaires paid for travel and lodging
L Ron Mexico120Even MAGA can feel how decayed and hollow this is. Deep down they know this is just a pedophile’s extended birthday party dressed up as a holiday. Yes, they’d pay $20 for a hot dog while listening to music that sounds like royalty free Christian rock, but only if it feels like winning. This DOES NOT
Jeff "Belt Runner 2049ers" Krisko8this is probably the biggest indicator that nobody has any damn money and everything is too expensive now. His braying hordes would do anything for him at a drop of a hat but now they just plain can't afford it.
Legally Bonnnt5how many times have they made these assholes drive to DC for garbage like this? Gas is like $3.50, not even the faithful are doing it any more
MasterCard Lola Powertrain Engineer5They can't do it because it requires them going into a city, and going to a place with limited parking.
Newsweek: Trump’s claim that 45,000 people attended the Great American State Fair, is not backed by independent counts. NBC reported over a 1,000 & WaPo described a thinly covered area. Similar disputes over attendance figures have included his 2017 inauguration & rallies. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
David Stone9People who matter know it's all lies. The problem comes when the people who don't matter (MAGAs, other brain-deads) vote. I know this isn't news. I have no idea how to reach THOSE people.
Having Said That7He’s back to worrying about crowd sizes again. What a loser.!!
RealUSAPatriot6Like the lion in the Wizard of Oz he has no courage. Unlike the lion he will never be able to find it.
Kathy Mortensen 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙4Math skills are not their strong suit.
ejcon3.bsky.social3Vice President Spiro Agnew's downfall was a sudden 1973 political scandal. Investigated for bribery, extortion, and tax evasion stemming from his time in Maryland, Agnew resigned on October 10, 1973. Do you recall when politicians were not AFRAID to investigate, charge, and punish. Is that over now?
Rebecca E ❌👑3In the video I saw I counted 11 people alongside an empty field. No where near 100, let alone 45K.
Confederate flag flown at NC's Great American State Fair; removed after video emerges www.usatoday.com/story/news/u...
C Latner13Technically it wasn't "NC's Fair". The governor declined to participate at all, so there should not have even been a booth for NC. A few private businesses set up some crazy racist stuff. Not sanctioned by the governor at all, & he had it removed as soon as he found out
Fleuron9For all people who like the Confederate flag and claim it's their "heritage," few could pass a quiz on the laws and culture of Civil-War era southern states. They embrace a sentimentalized, idealized version of their region's past that never existed.
Valerie Valerate 🏳️⚧️7Nothing says American patriotism quite like a flag from the time when they fought against America
mjteacher.bsky.social6The south today is still rife with Confederate flags all over the place. We drove thru Western Virginia recently and I swear I was going to run into Robert E. Lee any minute. It’s disgusting.
Marc Hershovitz1No one should be surprised by this. The American State Fair is a Donald Trump production. One should expect to see them there.
Magysmiles1Not shocking at all in this neck of the woods
Regina Schrambling 12Only good part is that almost no one was there to see it:
Peliukko🇫🇮🇺🇦4Ongelmia Trumpistanin 250-vuotisen historian juhlamenoissa. Alkuun natsilippuun verrattava Etelävaltioiden lippu poistettiin esiltä ja kehitysmaan tavoin messut alkoivat sähkökatkoilla ja osittain tyhjillä messuosastoilla…
Adam L.3"it was unintentionally included." Sure. That's a thing that totally happens. People unintentionally include unequivocally racist symbols all the time.
calizaybak.bsky.social3Republicans are proud of slavery and want to bring it back is the message here and I think people should believe them to be on the safe side.
Seen a few legacy media vids of Great American State Fair that do report on the almost surreal incompetence of it all but in doing so pan over booths promoting apocalyptic Christian nationalism without comment. Not because they’re for it! Because most reporters don’t get it.
Professional Internet Beggar16Treating it as colorful background scenery instead of asking why it's there is exactly how extremism gets normalized.
Angel Brownawell15I saw them yesterday and walked by so fast.
Cuchulu5This year I have agreed to work Friday-Saturday-Sunday, right thru the 4th holiday. I will celebrate 250 years if, we in fact have kept our republic upon the demise of this regime.
Michael R Lambert1That angel? on the mini arch. L
Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies4A big part of what got us to this point is the mainstream press/media completely ignoring all the shit that was going on in the religious right.
Lisa Kadonaga2A significant point here. Even if the whole spectacle is laughable, it's not a funny situation.
Every piece of straight news reporting on the fucking fair sounds like a slam, I can't get enough
Hemry, Local Bartender87"It really do just suck shit" lol lmao
John12Like, why not? Surely "fair food vendors" was an achievable goal for this?
anthrosciguy.bsky.social2I've been at the mall during the late 50s, the 60s, a lot in the mid 70s, and again in the mid 80s. I've never seen it as uncrowded as in the pictures of the fair. Used to be any weekday summer evening had a half dozen softball games going, along with just people hanging out.
sunbirdie.bsky.social1Still trying to figure out exactly what IS at the fair?
This is what every picture of the Great American State Fair looks like
Looking at pictures of the Trump State Fair and thinking that whenever soulless twats declare that there will be a wonderful attraction, they forget that wonderful attractions require long, passionate work by creative people. You don’t put out some stalls and hope stuff people like piles up on them
Joel Morris27The Millennium Dome. Various Olympic closing ceremonies. The Wonka Experience. Try organising a kids’ party and find out how hard it is to fill a room with decorations. Anyone who’s made stuff knows how hard theatrical effects are to pull off. Making stuff people want to see is HARD.
thethinblackduke.bsky.social3Other than hatred, these creatures are empty vessels, joyless.
Auntee Phở 🫘3That's the way everything works for trump and fellow billionaires. They announce it's going to happen and someone makes it happen. However, trump got rid of the people who know how to plan things and who know the logistics of such a thing. He always thought that just announcing it makes it happen.
I didn't think Trump could outdo his fascist, squeaky-tank parade for its absolute cringeworthy patheticness. But his Great American State Fair is really giving it a run for its money. Happy Birthday America!
bazzlecat.bsky.social59Just tried to get tickets for the Obama Library and sold out until November. Just saying. Must be eating away at trump's brain.
Caryl B.2Perfect! Trump is a disgrace and an embarrassment to this Country. If only the Republicans would admit what a mistake they made and continue making. Trump doesn't give a crap about anyone but himself. Republicans have shown themselves to be feckless sycophants who truly don't care about their voters