Trump: Cancel 250th Celebration Opening, Opt for MAGA Rally; Calls Himself the GOAT POTUS, More Popular Than Elvis
President Donald Trump has suggested canceling the opening musical program for the Great American State Fair, which is set to begin on June 25 to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday.
Trump posted the idea on Truth Social not only because he is furious that several of the booked “third rate” artists have dropped out, but also, he wrote, because he is more popular than Elvis Presley and is the greatest president in the history of presidents.
The two rants appeared the same day as his Fox News interview with daughter-in-law Lara Trump. She is the wife of Eric Trump, the president’s 42-year-old son.
Trump told his son’s wife that the United States produces double the amount of oil than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined. That is false.
The Great American State Fair is a project of Freedom 250, the nonpartisan outfit that is sponsoring “Freedom Trucks,” “Patriot Games,” a student art contest, and more. The White House has a Freedom 250 webpage.
The opening event at the fair is a musical program that was to feature singer-songwriter Martina McBride, Young MC, Bret Michaels, the Commodores, and Morris Day and The Time. All of them pulled out of the event because they deemed it “political.”
One musician who will perform is Vanilla Ice. “I’m super honored to do this concert,” Mr. Ice said in an Instagram post. “It’s gonna be an epic party,” he continued in writing:
This is to bring us all together. I’m tired of all the news channels dividing this country. We are all one. This is not a political platform. This is celebrating America’s birthday.
More Popular Than Elvis
In a noontime rant on May 30, Trump explained that it didn’t matter if the musicians pulled out because he could take over and do a better job of entertaining the crowd:
I understand Artists are getting “the yips” having to do with their performance … so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate “Artists,” and give a major speech, rallying the Country forward like I have done ever since being President!
Two years ago, the United States was DEAD. Now we have the “HOTTEST” Country anywhere in the World. I don’t want so-called “Artists” that get paid far too much money, who aren’t happy. I only want to be surrounded by Happy People, Smart People, Successful People, and People that know how to WIN. … Only Great Patriots invited — It will be a Wild and Beautiful Celebration of America!
GOAT is the increasingly annoying term often used to describe top-flight athletes.
So Trump declared himself a bigger attraction than Presley “in his prime,” although the singer drew more than 60,000 fans to the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan in 1975. And he is a better president than his 45 predecessors, including George Washington. Thus, the opening event should be canceled, and a MAGA rally, which would indeed make the event political, be put in its place.
“We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain,” the GOAT wrote:
Cancel it, just like I canceled my involvement with the failing and unsafe to be in Kennedy Center, because a Highly Conflicted, Crooked Federal Judge, said that I should not be allowed to spend my time and money in order to MAKE THE CENTER GREAT AGAIN, actually, far greater than it ever was before! It would have also been nice to see a Republican/Democrat union bring it back to life.
Trump is angry that U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper — appointed by President Barack Hussein Obama — ruled on Friday that the administration cannot close the center for two years for renovations, and, worse, that Trump must remove his name from the building.
The Kennedy Center “is broken, unsafe, and $busted, and has been for many years!” the GOAT continued:
Judge Cooper also stated that the highly prestigious Board of the Center was not authorized to add on the name “TRUMP” despite the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars of my time and money will be necessary for its successful reincarnation. So now, the Kennedy Center will collapse, both structurally and financially. Judge Cooper and his wife, Amy Jeffress (obfuscation anyone?), should be ashamed of themselves. Judge Cooper, like numerous other Crooked Judges on my cases, should be IMPEACHED.
Double the Oil of Russia, Saudi Arabia Combined
During his fake-news interview with his daughter-in-law, Trump unbosomed himself of a bizarre claim. The United States, he said, produces more than double the oil of Russia and Saudi Arabia combined.
“So we produce now, because of us, me, we produce more oil than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined times two,” he declared:
Think of that. We double what they [produce]. Add Saudi Arabia and Russia, multiply it times two. And we’re going to be much higher. We’re the oil superpower, far greater than even Saudi Arabia, even Russia. But you add them up — these are two big monsters — you add them up, and we double it.
America produces about 13.9 million barrels of crude oil per day. Russia produces about 9.8 million barrels per day. Saudi Arabia: about 10 million barrels.
For Trump’s claim to be true, the U.S. would have to produce 39.6 million barrels per day.
Even adding in biofuels, natural gas, oxygenates, and refinery grain, which raises the U.S. total to a little more than 20 million barrels, doesn’t help Trump’s case.
