'I'm Mad at Trump': Even Trumpers Can't Stand How Shoddy the Great American State Fair Is

[riversedge]

I really have no empathy for most of them.




....The Justice Department’s was entirely devoted to the Bureau of Prisons, with at least three recruitment tables to become prison guards. The Department of State had giant mockups of the new, limited-edition Trump passport. ......

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The Justice Department’s was entirely devoted to the Bureau of Prisons, with at least three recruitment tables to become prison guards. The Department of State had giant mockups of the new, limited-edition Trump passport.

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— (@oceancalm.bsky.social) 2026-07-04T17:32:02.629Z

‘I’m Mad at Trump’: Even Trumpers Can’t Stand How Shoddy the Great American State Fair Is



Having a Normal One in Our Nation’s Capital
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekender/im-mad-at-trump-even-trumpers-cant-stand-how-shoddy-the-great-american-state-fair-is

By Josh Kovensky

WASHINGTON, DC – As I entered the Great American State Fair on Monday, I saw a red-faced older gentleman, looking upset. “I’m mad at Trump!” he exclaimed, adding the event didn’t resemble any fair he had been to before.

I stopped him and identified myself as a journalist. He and his wife brushed me off, saying he didn’t want to talk to the media.

He was far from alone in having that reaction to the Great American State Fair, which is taking up the National Mall with a tiny model of Trump’s triumphal arch, broken air conditioning, sagging tarps, and more for the next few weeks. Many of those at the fair seemed to be a mix of confused and underwhelmed by the whole thing. In other ways, it was like a microcosm of the modern conservative movement’s vision of America: lots of God, a warped view of the country’s values, much of it a scam.................................


After the Freedom Truck, we spotted, visited, and avoided a Budweiser Truck ($12 Michelob, no thank you), and then moved on to a tent with a religious theme..........................

[RockRaven]

1. To any such Trumpers: "Fuck your feelings!"

[tanyev]

2. I was struck by the reaction from the author's friend.

This is how the right has gotten as far as they have. Not enough people are paying close enough attention.

I went last Saturday with a friend of mine. He’s a former journalist, but made the wise financial move of declining to turn this into a lifelong career. He follows politics and current events. But not super closely, and definitely not in the kind of detail that we offer at TPM.

-snip-

By that point, we had had enough. A few days later, the friend I went with texted me, describing a “psychic shock” he got from the fair.

“Things are worse than I thought,” he wrote.

[Norrrm]

3. One ferris wheel is all it takes to be a state fair now.

[Karasu]

4. If these idiots knew anything about Trump, they would know he's too fucking cheap to care about the quality of literally

anything.

[PatSeg]

5. I've been to a lot of amusement parks in my life

I never saw anything as cheesy as this "fair". I wouldn't be surprised if some people showed up and just turned around and left.