In short
The episode claims Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” at the National Mall was a total failure: empty booths, canceled events, melty ice cream, power outages, and expensive food (hot dogs reportedly $25). Hosts cite Fox News coverage as misleading about attendance and argue taxpayer waste (including claims of $60M from national parks and nearly $1M for White House walkway refitting). They also highlight an alleged masturbating incident involving a MAGA supporter, and a mock-up arch made of paper/cardboard. They contrast the fair’s alleged lack of joy with Pride parades drawing huge crowds.
Guests
Kylie and Ryan (with Kylie described as a “typhoid Mary” who sickened the studio; Ryan jokes about missing Pride due to arrest work).
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOTrump's Disastrous State Fair
0:28 to 2:26
The hosts discuss the failures of the Great American State Fair and its low attendance.
“Like everything Donald Trump touches, the great American State Fair is an absolute disaster.”
Mocking the State Fair's Highlights
2:26 to 6:00
Discussion on the ridiculousness of events and performances being canceled, including a MAGA supporter incident.
“love this so much for him count on Fox to fluff this trying to, you know, act l So play us the clip from pictures.”
Critique of Fox News Coverage
6:00 to 8:16
The hosts critique how Fox News covered the event and the lack of diversity in the food options.
“And I just, I bet he's not the only one.”
Joy vs. Rage: A Contrast
8:16 to 12:52
The hosts contrast the atmosphere of the State Fair with the vibrant Pride parade, discussing the lack of joy at Trump's events.
“That's why this year I haven't thought since Trump has been back in office, I have not enjoyed Saturday Night Live like I usually do, because what's real is more parody than what they do on Saturday Night Live.”
Cultural Representation Issues
12:52 to 14:01
Discussion on the lack of cultural representation at the State Fair and the implications of displaying a Confederate flag.
“Ryan, you've got your head in this all day long.”
Discussion on Racism and Division
14:01 to 15:14
Explore the troubling implications of racism and segregation in America.
“You can't celebrate the native people of Hawaii and Alaska because this government doesn't condone anybody that's not white, European white descent.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:01Angie 'Pumps' Sullivan:Queen Carvanha stood haloed by the morning sun. An army hung on her every word. My champions! I have sold my chariot on Carvanha! T 'was a lovely SUV, an inexplicably queenly offer. They're even coming to the castle to collect it! Tonight, we feast! An offer you can feast on. Sell your car today on Carvanha. Pick up fees may apply.
0:34Like everything Donald Trump touches, the great American State Fair is an absolute disaster. It is dead on arrival. And here to talk about it with me today are Kylie and Ryan. Kylie is a typhoid Mary, and she has gotten everybody in the iPod podcast studio sick to death. So Jennifer is in bed and Kylie and Ryan can barely talk, but we're here. We're doing it. And so we want to show you shots of this disastrous American state fair. Okay. Here is the first clip. No one is there. If you're listening, there's a curl trying the baton. How many people would you say are there? There's maybe seven people on here.
1:21Seven? Yeah. And I kept seeing on Twitter, like, the booths are empty. The ice cream is melty. Here's the deal. You know Donald Trump is a cancer on the ass of America when the American State Fair has to be canceled twice and Vanilla Ice won't reschedule. That's how bad it is. Ice, ice, baby. And not only Vanilla Ice, but Bret Michaels canceled. and famously, Bret Michaels won the Celebrity Apprentice, their buddy. So, you know, that's something. What I would say about this is, apologies, listener, that you have to listen to this vocal fry. I lived in DC for six years. On any other summer day, the National Mall would be packed right now with people, you know, hanging out, throwing frisbees, just doing things that you do on a summer day and instead donald trump has completely desecrated one of the best parts of dc and replaced it with this i mean we'll show more of the videos but this it's it's just an absolute joke it's an absolute joke it's emptier than usual it is way emptier than usual like it's anyone who lives in dc could vouch for me on that i actually have a quote in front of me from the washington post, they described the covering an area about the Museum of American history outdoor movie screenings.
2:56love this so much for him count on Fox to fluff this trying to, you know, act l So play us the clip from pictures. You really don't the full story because if You look behind us, you see, okay, there are a couple of hundred people back there, but the truth is you get your way over here and you're in this. Okay, stop. You're in a walk. For everybody that's watching, you can see there's nobody. It's all green. White booths, all green. If that is a hundred people, I am Miss America. I mean, that just simply is a big, fat lie. Nobody wants to come to this because people are starting to understand fascism sucks.
3:40And we know how bad it sucks. We know Donald Trump was watching Fox News knowing it sucked because here's his live social. Do you think people appreciate what a fantastic job we did in building and operating the great American state fair at the National Mall, packed with happy people and everybody loving it? Ask yourself this question. Do you think that Obama, Now that's a new one. O-B-U-M-A or Sleepy Joe could have done it. The answer is no. You know why the answer is no? Because if Obama or Biden had done a fair to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America, it would be packed. It would be wall to wall.
4:27It would be, as we saw at the opening of Obama's new library, it would be real live A-list stars. Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson, U2, Common. All of these people, I just can't tell you how bad it is when Vanilla Ice and Bret Michaels cancel on you. I'm embarrassed for him. But here he is. It's packed. That's how we know it's not packed. And then here is just my favorite story coming out of the weekend other than it was zero attendance, no attendance. My favorite story was, but of course, a MAGA supporter who was playing Uncle Sam on stilts, no less. Kylie, tell us what he got caught doing at the National Mall.
5:18He got accused of masturbating at the great American State Fair, which is the least shocking thing I've ever heard. And what's so funny about it is the Daily Mail goes, MAGA fan accused of masturbating at Donald Trump's great American state fair in latest setback for embattled event. So even across the pond, they know that this is an absolute disaster. Was anybody shocked that a MAGA person was beating off at Trump's event? And look at the tweet says, this is from Shelby. She says, so the Great American State Fair lasted approximately 17 minutes before a guy got caught masturbating. And I just, I bet he's not the only one.
6:05He was just the only one that got caught. Absolutely. He's not the only one. He's the only one that got caught. And something else that we saw at the Great American State Fair that nobody went to and Uncle Sam was masturbating at was we got to see a mock-up of the latest and greatest of the many despicable things that Trump is doing with taxpayer money that are gauche and ugly that arch. Here we go. I mean, come on, come on. It looks like it's made out of cardboard and paper. No, So actually I saw a video. It is paper, pieces of paper stapled onto it and then painted over. So it's literally white trash.
6:53Like that is literally what this arch mock-up is made out of. I just want to go back to the Fox News coverage of it. They were running with this all weekend, you know, as you would expect them to do, running cover for Trump. And that shot that we showed where, you know, they were saying, oh, it's misleading how many people it looks like in the background. That was the most amount of people from all of the clips that I saw of the Fox coverage all weekend. And there was another segment where Peter Doocy was he was interviewing agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins, and they were testing out the different foods, all of the, you know, the all American cuisine that was made available at the fair.
7:40It was a hot dog and then a small cheese pizza. It's just, it goes back to something that Jen talks about a lot, that these people are so afraid to celebrate the multiculturalism of America because what makes America so great, you know, especially living in New York, I can get any type of food I want at any time I want. And that's the best food that there is. And, you know, so they're out there celebrating the fact that we can make a hot dog and a cheese pizza. It's I mean, the jokes write themselves. Yeah, they do. That's why this year I haven't thought since Trump has been back in office, I have not enjoyed Saturday Night Live like I usually do, because what's real is more parody than what they do on Saturday Night Live.
8:30And when you talk about all this stuff, it's the money, the money that is being spent on all this shit, like$60 million from national parks has been used for this. And then you talk about, you know, he said, you know, he refitted one of the walkways in the White House. He made it like marble. And they asked him when he did it, who's going to pay for this? Me, my money. Well, guess what? Almost a million dollars of taxpayer money. None of the shit. The ballroom. Oh, it's going to be donors. Now he wants a billion dollars. People cannot afford gas. They cannot. I bought groceries this weekend and I bought shit down both legs.
9:10They were so expensive. It's unbelievable what the American people are having to do. Well, he's running around. And I've heard that the hot dogs are like 25 bucks at this fair. The food was extremely expensive. Well, and the power went out at all of the food stations. There was an ice cream station. and all the ice cream melted. I read a lot of the booths didn't even open because there was no one there to run them. This is exactly what Donald Trump does with everything. Everything he touches dies, falls apart, is fucked up. First and foremost, the United States. I mean, if you can bankrupt a casino, you are in a list of one person and that's Donald Trump.
9:47And that's what he's doing to everything he touches. But here's the thing. He is enabled by all these people And the biggest enablers of Donald Trump are the evangelical white Christians. And we see at this state fair, they are not wasting an opportunity to grandstand. Show us the clip, Kylie.
10:10Indoor pool. Oh, you can see the porta potties in the background. That's great. An indoor facility, which is a tent with empty chairs, but there's a dunk tank. So if you want to go and get baptized at this place, you absolutely can. Because, oh, and look, the flags. If you're listening, there are two flags in this tent where you can be baptized. There's the United States flags, because it is the great American state fair, and the flag of Israel. So that's kind of interesting. a dunk tank. You know, we want to baptize you and we have the Israeli flag. That's kind of a contradiction in terms for me.
10:59I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy. And then just, it was nobody attended. Nobody had fun. We know this because Donald Trump tweeted about it. So we wanted to compare and contrast the amazing videos from the pride raids this weekend. Kylie, load us up. so if you're listening it's all of the crowds i mean it's millions and millions of people gathered in new york this weekend for pride i actually got to go to the pride parade did you get them sick too probably all of them but i told ryan i was like i've never seen so many people in one place like and it's just a beautiful thing and they did this while trump was having the great american state fair it's just a great contrast yeah people are jumping up down they're dancing they're spraying water, they're dancing in fountains.
11:49There's real joy. There's joy here. But even here's the deal. Let's say we teleported to another universe and Trump did this. Even if it was packed full of people, there would not be joy because they are full of rage. These are the angriest, most fearful people on the planet. They cannot have fun, even though they have the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, they're still not happy. All Trump does is bitch. And then by contrast, you see people gathering and finding unity and celebrating pride. And there were allies there, LGBTQIA +, and allies of every race, creed, and color, and everyone celebrating and having a great time.
12:35And so I just think that's what we need to focus on because this MAGA thing, I mean, if you can't get Bret Michaels and Vanilla Ice to play and you can't get the diehard MAGAs to come to DC for Trump, I mean, I feel like we're in late stage decline. Maybe I'm being too optimistic. Ryan, you've got your head in this all day long. What do you think? Yeah. I mean, despite all of the warnings of Sharia law, Mayor Mondani was marching proudly in the pride parade. Unfortunately, I missed it this year. I was arresting yesterday, jealous that Kylie got to march in the parade. She got you sick and then she went.
13:16Yeah, she did. One thing that we just haven't talked about that I wanted to add, there was a, for each state in the United States, there was a booth at the Great American State fair and i saw i saw some of the booths alaska and hawaii their booth was i'm not this is not an exaggeration two like adirondack chairs with a sign for the state literally nothing of its culture or significance or anything relevant to the state and in north carolina there was a confederate flag I saw that. Private Donor did that because the state said we're not doing it. So Private Donor put up a Confederate flag. But you know, here's the deal.
14:02You can't celebrate the native people of Hawaii and Alaska because this government doesn't condone anybody that's not white, European white descent. Right. It's gross. Yeah. And there's nothing that says, you know, that it's more about bringing people together than putting up the Confederate flag. So I think that is just kind of the perfect encapsulation of of, you know, what this event represents and sort of how these people view America. Absolutely. They view it as a white person only. And here's the thing. They want division. They want segregation. They want apartheid between whites and blacks and whites and immigrants.
14:50That's what they're going for. But I was glad to see that they actually, I think somehow the state of North Carolina intervened with the private donor and they did take down the Confederate flag after backlash. But who was the dipshit that thought that would be OK anyway? Somebody in MAGA. I mean, it is OK there. It's OK there. I'm surprised it wasn't like all chips in. There was a line for it. All right. Don't forget to buy and preorder Jennifer's new book, Not Today Fascist. And we will be back later today with more news.
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