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The president has claimed the fair is “packed with happy people” but footage from the National Mall tells a different story
CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins trolled President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair by showing just how few people showed up to the week-long event.
Standing on the National Mall Thursday among a sparse crowd, Collins said “for a president who often fixates on crowd size, so far the fair on Washington’s National Mall hasn’t exactly lived up to the hype.”
The fair was intended to showcase goods and culture across America’s 50 states. However, when Trump has been accused of ‘hijacking’ events around America’s 250th birthday to make them about himself. The fair was opened with sparse booths and limited attractions. This, combined with D.C.’s ongoing heatwave, has resulted in minimal crowds attending and a lot of mockery on social media.
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Controversies surrounding the fair included a Confederate Flag hanging in the North Carolina booth
Great job, North Carolina. We appreciate you letting us know in no uncertain terms to avoid you when planning to travel. Too bad, cause it’s a beautiful part of the country.
What the fuck did they celebrate in that booth? Because the Union ain’t it!
Will there be more visitors than degrees Fahrenheit at Trumps speech today?
I don’t even know fuhrerheit but I bet there will be more, if you count security and all the trash.
Kaitlan is a national treasure.
If you check out the AP live feed of the national Mall today on the actual 4th of July. It is still empty as all fuck. LoL 😂
Why did they decide on calling it a “State Fair” anyway? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to call it The National Fair?
“State Fair” in a non-state as well. Not even a commonwealth.
Is it really trolling to make factual statements?
You can troll with facts, yes. Trolling is more about intent and tone than accuracy or objectivity.
Reality has long had a liberal bias.
At this point yes
Journalism == trolling. Nobody told you?
Journalism is trolling and facts are liberal spin.
The state of modern journalism is extremely depressing.
Reality is not trolling.
The sites that do things like claim that CNN is “trolling Trump” are doing it to get clicks from left-leaning people. But, the effect is to hurt the interests of left-leaning people.
CNN is factually reporting on the “state fair” thing in an unbiased way, but reporting it truthfully makes Trump look bad.
Calling it trolling makes it seem like it’s what Jordan Klepper does on The Daily Show. It makes it seem partisan and biased.
But hey, these news sites are out to make a buck, and people post their stuff to social media sites like this one which generates clicks and revenue. So, mission accomplished.
Reality often has a troll like bias.
Eris you feisty little minx.
All hail Eris. All hail discordia.
fnord
Boy, I sure do love an article about a video without a link to the video. I hope that it’s just my ad blocker not letting it be shown or something.
That link can be found in another article for which I’m not providing any link.
You’re welcome!!
Following his speech, the president is planning on setting off fireworks for 40 minutes in an attempt to break the world record for fireworks. Firework manufacturers have said this will cost many millions of dollars, but the White House is yet to disclose exactly how much they are spending and how they obtained the funds.
Those USAID funds, and funding for dozens of other programs, aren’t going where they’re legally supposed to anymore, so probably from there.
Is 40 minutes really considered a world record for fireworks? I remember being in Japan and they were going on for what felt like more than an hour at least
Almost certainly not. The labor day fireworks they shoot off in Cincinnati every year last at least that long.
Yeah, no shot.
Nah they’ve already spent those funds, u said was cut months ago
He’s spent these too probably. It’ll just be a dozen interns shaking pill bottles full of pennies and shouting bang
Dump is going to froth his diapers in rage and try to get her fired for this
Didn’t Ellison recently acquire CNN? If so she’ll very likely get fired and blackballed by all the right-wing propaganda outlets
Sounds like a plus to me
Her reporting isn’t trolling.
The Independent running the article after the faire was closed for heat today and therefore no one is there, is next level trolling and im here for it.
You’re right, it’s terrorism. Or will be declared as such soon enough, mark my words. The days of free speech in the U.S. are numbered.
I think they’re back to calling it communism now.
First comment on the article, “that’s not ‘trolling’ - that’s reporting”
Damn straight.
Reality isn’t a troll. Reality only trolls a troll.
My bosses at work who are 60+ all remember how great the 200th was. Everyone voted trump and everyone is disappointed beyond belief at how bad this 250th is.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I remember hearing a lot of references to “The Bicentennial.”
