Trump 250 Gala Grows More Humiliating as Fox Grapples with Low Turnout
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Trump 250 Gala Grows More Humiliating as Fox Grapples with Low Turnout
Posted by FreeHugs23
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>As Fox News’s hyping of Trump’s initial rally falls flat, a media critic explains how Trump and Fox alike are using this moment to push a larger, more sinister agenda—and why that, too, is failing.
>After Donald Trump kicked off his personalized celebration of America’s 250th birthday with a rally on the National Mall on Wednesday night, news accounts described the event as very sparsely attended. Trump himself practically begged for more people to show up to the next event set for July 4. Amusingly, this comes after Fox News madly hyped the Wednesday rally in an effort to drum up excitement.
>But then, as Matt Gertz of Media Matters reports in a good piece on all this, Fox grappled with the bad initial turnout by largely avoiding any discussion of it. We think that’s pretty revealing. So we talked to Gertz about all of it: We discuss why Trump’s gala is so important for the broader, more sinister Trump-Fox project that’s underway, the real reason Trump-Fox want our the 250th anniversary to be a celebration of Trump’s “personalist” rule, and what it will really mean if it’s all a bust.
>Listen to this episode [here](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily-blast-with-greg-sargent/id1728152109).
no one likes billionaires especially ones who rape kids
Nobody wants to watch Trump
So many spam texts about tickets, how is that legal
It truly is amazing how the entire circus around Trump has rained all over America’s 250th celebration. One of the most back patting, jingoist countries in the history of the world cant even get it up for a milestone celebration.
Incredible
Happy 250th birthday America! The pool is out of service, the house is half demolished and the neighbors are all staying home with their lights off. No one can afford cake or gas to come for a visit but look on the bright side. He hasn’t decided to improve Mount Rushmore. Yet.
Just want to say that I live in DC and the weather has been fucking gorgeous this week after a little bit of rain Monday. Really could not have asked for better weather.
So it’s not that.
Are bots making these political posts?
Time for Melania to show the audience her pole dancing moves.
It’s like the Superbowl halftime show. The only people hyped about that online was Fox News, Trump, and MAGA propaganda accounts on X. As MAGA in general did not really care it turned out, when it was live that is
What would be great is if fox realized the ratings would be so low that they just didn’t cover it at all and put on the movie 1776 instead on a 24 hour loop.
250 is the amount of people who will be there.
250 is the amount of ducks that will be dead in the Lincoln Memorial Algae Pool by July 04.
Just watched a local news segment (WRC 4,my childhood station). Kinda nauseating.
Yes, pretty empty at the time but these segments can be like that. Only interviewed one or two people but the reporter, Megan McGrath had that cheery vapidness of a local car dealership ad trying to get you to come on down.
A mockup of The Arch was prominent in several shots. Obviously placed near the center of the Mall in direct line with the Capitol, famous now more for violent “tourists” than the Smithsonian museums flanking it. At one point she mentioned it and called it “somewhat controversial” with a cheerleader chuckle.
I lived in that area my whole life, moving only three years ago. I don’t think I ever want to go back.
Fox is a parasite.
[he’s actually going for July 3rd fireworks. hope he falls asleep and misses it.](https://www.newscenter1.tv/news/rhoden-rounds-confirm-pres-trump-to-attend-mt-rushmore-fireworks)
I assume there will be another real or staged assassin attempt. I want nothing to do with that and im not going any where near DC. It just doesnt feel safe to be there.
I can’t believe that the president of one of the most powerful countries on this Earth keeps showing up on entertainment news 😒
#DonnyHumiliating
Can’t they just use a Sharpie and draw in more MAGA?
Who would’ve thought the 250 would actually represent the attendance number.
DC resident here.
Most of us just continue our lives and try to avoid the mall and downtown right now.
I’ve talked to some tourists while out for work. Many are from Florida. I just try to show them some kindness because I’m a brown man and they need the cognitive dissonance.
Meanwhile, hotels have held their prices higher despite it usually being off season.
It’s a slow summer tourism and hospitality wise.