Trump DC Fair Fully Collapses

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2:30Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is panicking as this so-called great American fare is becoming even a bigger disaster than has already been reported. Now, we've already reported the Trump regime had to shut it down yesterday because literally no one showed up at all. Also, the power was down. The Ferris wheel wasn't working. The ice cream had melted. The food was rotting away. But folks, it gets much worse. I'm going to show you what it looked like yesterday and early today when this so-called Great American Fair opened back up. We're also hearing from people who work at the Smithsonian who are saying what this event was supposed to be like before Donald Trump and his despicable regime destroyed it.

3:16Ben Meiselas:So Dean Cain, a MAGA guy who often goes on state regime media, which calls itself Fox. He posted the following image yesterday. View from atop the Ferris wheel at the great American state fair. This is a MAGA guy. This is a Fox guy. Here's what he posted. Take a look. You can literally probably count maybe 33 to 34 people who attended. Louis Kahn posted this photo. Took this photo two hours ago. Take a look. Maybe 17 people that are in the pavilion over there. Adam Parkamenko shows the main stage over there. Again, maybe 17 to 19 people. Another overhead view, you see the fake arch or arc that's right there that's made out of cardboard.

4:06Ben Meiselas:Again, you can see that literally no one is there in the Washington Mall. I mean, without this so called great American state fair, you would have much more people in the mall than are right there right now. You had this oddity taking place, vanilla ice with someone in a Ninja Turtle. Now, this was the type of Ninja Turtle costume that would haunt me when I was five years old, the fake Ninja Turtle costume right there. I remember going to a birthday party when I was five and they rolled out that Ninja Turtle. I remember crying hysterically. It still gives me PTSD to this day, obviously. I'm half joking.

4:43Ben Meiselas:Gary Peterson goes, the great American State Fair is where we can spot legends like the godfather of rap, Vanilla Ice, wowing the massive crowds with Raphael, the turtle ninja. I feel like a mere mortal next to these icons. Okay. So this was one of the main performances that was taking place yesterday. Not quite sure why there is an American flag and an Israeli flag in this tent, but that's what exists. And Stephanie Mensimer explains, I guess no one at the Great American Fair, wants to listen to the Jesus music on the mall. So this was the big concert that was supposed to take place yesterday.

5:21Ben Meiselas:Let's take a look at the big concerts. You can see for yourself, play this clip.

5:32But the Trump regime propaganda has posted

5:39Ben Meiselas:the following photo. It's American aircraft that our taxpayer dollars pay for, which has been used by the Trump regime to engage in lots of war crimes and murdering people off the coast of Venezuela in war crimes in Iran, for which I want to see people tried at The Hague for their war crimes, just being blunt about it. But here's what the White House posted. Locked in, patriots in control. In control of what? You can't even put together the great American state fair. I mean, growing up, going to fairs, taking my family to, I don't know how you screw this up so badly. And again, I'll show everybody what was supposed to actually take place.

6:20Ben Meiselas:And I want to give a shout out to John Arvesis and he showed up there. He got some footage of what was going down. Let me show you what he was able to record right here. This right here is from John Arvases. I'll play you this clip right here. Oh, there we go. There we go. So there we go, guys. Can you hear me? I'm on the mall at Trump's state fair thing he did. This is the thing that he did with his own people because he refused to use the accredited one, the actual one that presidents have used for decades. And he set up his own state fair. It's terrible. I mean, first of all, look at the crowds, right?

6:59There's nobody here. I did some separate videos. Actually, I may walk in and show you guys. Actually, I'm going to show you the food court. So he set up a copy of his little NZ arch. Absolutely horrific, this thing. The Ferris wheel broke down yesterday. It's working now.

7:14Ben Meiselas:More from Arvacis right here as well. Just giving you insight into what he saw going down. Let's play this clip. So far, these states are very, very boring. and I'm gonna now go over to Alaska and see what they've got because I spent a lot of time in Alaska. If Alaska's boring, I'm gonna be very disappointed because how could Alaska be boring? Not a ton of people here either, by the way. You can see the crowds, the wild crowds. It's a cast of thousands. Not. And for some reason, nobody can figure out there's a line for Arizona. Only Arizona. Nobody else. But Arizona, there's a line. So this is very sad.

7:50Alaska and Hawaii have nothing. I'm not quite sure why. Hawaii, Democratic state. Alaska, Republican state. There's nothing here. Very weird. All right. So this is the food court. Little Soviet Union-ish, but that's okay. We'll walk down and see. But as you can see, it's not the, I don't know. This is it, guys. This is literally the food court. See, they're like trying to get in. Don't go. Run. Run. Wow, express hibachi. Okay, I guess they can't afford lights in here. Wow. I mean, this is it. Also very crowded too. Obviously not. Wow. That's just kind of sad. And then here are some like cowboys or Mexican cowboys, which would be actually a little surprising if they were Mexican Cowboys.

8:42I'm going to guess they're not Mexican Cowboys. Maybe they got no. I don't know.

8:50Yeah, not really. Well, maybe a little bit going on there. Okay. So this is kind of a bust. There's nothing going on. They've only got the booze of the states. And as you saw, they're boring.

9:01Ben Meiselas:Again, very, very sad. Indeed. Julian Andrione, you see him a lot in Capitol Hill, grilling the members of Congress along with some of the people we've got at Midas Touch Network on Capitol Hill. He posted this photo of himself at that performance. I'm here and can confirm it's completely empty, but at least they randomly hung an Israeli flag. Amanda Moore, she's a great reporter. She finally showed up and she goes, I finally made it to the Great American State Fair. The columns on this fake building are something to behold. Look at this right here. They know it looks like shit because they made an effort to hide it sometimes.

9:39Ben Meiselas:Then you got some MAGA followers going up to the golden Trump arch, and I don't even know what's going on there. And then I saw a lot of this going down. Free Manny. MAGA was talking about free Manny, and apparently this guy was involved in an incident. So I wanted to dig deeper because All the MAGA people were saying free Manny. He was set up, not guilty. I'm like, okay, who is this guy? He's a MAGA streamer, big, big Trumper, deep in the big MAGA circles. MAGA fan accused of masturbating at Donald Trump's Great American State Fair. Latest setback in embattled event. So here's this guy right here.

10:21Ben Meiselas:His real name is Gian Raccatelli. It goes by the name Manny. He was charged with lewd and decent and obscene acts. Apparently, he went over to the Cirque Mechanics Acrobatic Show, where there were female performers. And according to the police report and eyewitnesses, he was vaping. And then he started to, you know what, and people were horrified. And he was doing it in front of the Cirque dancers while nobody was there to begin with. This is who Trump is. This is what the Epstein class is. This is what these gross and disgusting people do. Don't you get it? This is not a glitch. This is quite literally who they are.

11:04Ben Meiselas:Okay, let's talk about what this event was supposed to be. Here's a Smithsonian insider talking about what the event was supposed to look like before Donald Trump turned America 250 into Freedom 250, and then Trump tried to turn it into some weird, horrible propaganda festival himself that makes Fyre Festival look like the most incredible event. I work at the Smithsonian specifically raising money for the 250th. What I want people to know is we secured millions of private philanthropy to host a month-long folk life festival on the mall. The Festival of Festivals was going to feature well-known festivals like Burning Man and Far-Made, the Grand Old Opry, as well as smaller and local regional festivals from across the United States and territories.

11:53Ben Meiselas:The goal was to feature truly the best and most beautiful creative expression of music, dance, arts, and craft traditions, food, community, et cetera. Can't name names, but plan was to have headliners every night for free concerts. Think the types of names who might be affiliated with the aforementioned large festivals. Stars were willing to perform because it was under the banner of the Smithsonian. It was all prepared, but it had to all be scraped because the administration would not release permits to host on the mall. The money went elsewhere, but our nation was robbed of what would have been a once-in-a-generation cultural moment.

12:28Ben Meiselas:I just think about it. I'm like, if former Vice President Kamala Harris was in charge, you know the event would have been pretty amazing. Also, I think Americans would have been doing much better off. We probably would have had inflation at around 2%, but I digress. I mean, I just want you to think about it this way when you pull back, because this is symptomatic of something bigger. When Donald Trump can't even throw a fare, and with all of the resources that we have, and it becomes something so utterly gross and utterly bankrupt, this is what he's done his entire life. Going back to Giuliano Angione for a second, there at the main pavilion in front of one of the main stages, packed house.

13:09Ben Meiselas:Yes, this performance is actively going on. If you look, to be very clear, this was the other main performance of the evening. Zoom in if we can, guys, so we can see what he means right there. The show was going on. Okay. He's literally the, when I'm saying nobody showed, I'm showing you 17 people, 34 people here. It was just Julian Andrioni. The protests of the event, the We Declare Independence, had far more people than the actual Great American State Fair. There were more people protesting outside than attended this event. There were more people at the Biden social distancing rallies than attended this Great American State Fair.

13:52Ben Meiselas:No shade to Biden, but there's more people there than here. Take a look right here, the Great American State Fair being an utter disaster right here. As Aaron Parnas writes, in what world is a chicken Caesar wrap and a hot dog considered hibachi? So when you go to the room, which is just this tent, you saw the video we showed earlier, the five-star culinary experience that was promised, right? And you go to the hibachi area, what the Trump regime considers hibachi, chicken Caesar wrap, chicken sandwich, nachos and pretzels. That ain't hibachi, yo. That ain't hibachi. Then you go over here to some Thai favorites.

14:32Ben Meiselas:You can get a$19 chicken pad Thai, at least that is Thai. You go to the Lucky Buns section, a$22 Lucky Buns with fries. That's called Trumpflation right there. You take a look right here at some of the prices for the drinks. If you want ice cream, it's eight bucks. If you want a iced coffee, that would be$10 right there. I'll show you over here as Jameson Daniel posts, the National State Sad Fair. Play this clip.

15:26Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are Cirque Mechanics. We're all the way from Las Vegas. Really excited to be here with the National Endowment for the Arts on the mile for the 250th. We're going to start it off with Ozzy and the drum.

15:58Ben Meiselas:Another image. I'm trying to show you lots of people images so you're not like, Ben, you're just selecting this one person and you're showing me from this angle. I'm just showing you lots of people. Solomon Tucker, State Fair 250, summed up in one photo. There it goes right there. So how's state regime media coping with this, which calls itself Fox? State regime media goes, there's thousands of people here. This is one of the biggest, most successful events ever. This is state regime media for you. Play this clip. Happy early birthday, America. We're celebrating already at the great American State Fair.

16:36Man, we've got thousands of people celebrating this birthday with us, Tommy. You and I had a chance to go out. We got to see some of the exhibits. I'm sure you got what I got, which was a lot of people going, hey, love to watch it on Fox. I hope a lot of them left the mall, went home and turned on their TV. Yeah, better watch this right now.

16:52Ben Meiselas:Then you have Scott Labedo. I guess he's a MAGA artist. Art in action. The self-hating media outlets say this is a failure. Get your butt down here and see how successful this is. after they were putting on state regime media. Can't believe it. Play this clip. I just want to make a note and revisit what you guys said earlier. I have never seen so many people, so many cool people. I'm a conservative, you know that. But there are Democrats here. And we're not talking about anything except patriotism and the celebration of America. So all of these self-hating media outlets who are saying that this fair is a failure, get your butt down here and I will prove you wrong.

17:33This is historical. This is epic.

17:35Ben Meiselas:And as we said on the Midas Touch Network, it should never be normalized that we have our own state regime media in the United States. I'm just going to play 12 seconds of this. Let's play it.

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