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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lemmylump@lemmy.world · 175 pts · 45d
Reality is not trolling.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 44 pts · 45d
Reality often has a troll like bias.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 45d
Eris you feisty little minx.
Bo7a@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 44d
All hail Eris. All hail discordia.
fnordmerc@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 45d
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.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 45d
Dump is going to froth his diapers in rage and try to get her fired for this
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 45d
Didn't Ellison recently acquire CNN? If so she'll very likely get fired and blackballed by all the right-wing propaganda outlets
Zidane@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 45d
Sounds like a plus to me
Burninator05@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 45d
Is it really trolling to make factual statements?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 45d
At this point yes
modus@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 45d
Journalism == trolling. Nobody told you?
nullspace@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 45d
Journalism is trolling and facts are liberal spin.
bss03@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 44d
You can troll with facts, yes. Trolling is more about intent and tone than accuracy or objectivity.
Reality has long had a liberal bias.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 44d
The state of modern journalism is extremely depressing.
ignirtoq@feddit.online · 51 pts · 45d
Those USAID funds, and funding for dozens of other programs, aren't going where they're legally supposed to anymore, so probably from there.
justaman123@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 45d
Nah they've already spent those funds, u said was cut months ago
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 45d
He's spent these too probably. It'll just be a dozen interns shaking pill bottles full of pennies and shouting bang
marretics@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 45d
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
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 45d
Almost certainly not. The labor day fireworks they shoot off in Cincinnati every year last at least that long.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 44d
Yeah, no shot.
ruuster13@lemmy.zip · 38 pts · 45d
Reality isn't a troll. Reality only trolls a troll.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 45d
First comment on the article, “that’s not ‘trolling’ - that's reporting”
Damn straight.
Eddbopkins@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 45d
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.
Zink@programming.dev · 2 pts · 44d
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I remember hearing a lot of references to "The Bicentennial."
HubertManne@piefed.social · 22 pts · 45d
reporting is trolling now???
PurpleHawkeye619@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 45d
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.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 45d
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.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 44d
I think they're back to calling it communism now.
Eternal192@anarchist.nexus · 18 pts · 45d
It would be funny if it wasn't actually sad.
Some probably refused to come out of spite but many probably couldn't afford to come and at the moment can't afford to go anywhere.
Perky@fedia.io · 13 pts · 45d
A lot of people probably simply aren't interested in going to an outdoor event during a record-breaking heatwave.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 11 pts · 45d
Especially not to see:
A bunch of mostly-empty booths for each state, which aren't even affiliated with the governments of those states, many of which (reportedly) feature only a stamp to collect to show you've been there, and nothing else
A cheap mockery of greco-roman architecture executed in the medium of plywood facades on top of white plastic tents
A succession of 4th-rate bands and performers nobody has heard of on a small stage
A ferris wheel that (reportedly) is out of order about 50% of the time
That would be disappointing and not really worthwhile even if the weather was beautiful for it, even if it wasn't strongly associated with a would-be fascist dictator and well-known pedophile.
Oh yeah, and to top it off, it's in the middle of DC, which is a pretty liberal city. Not exactly teeming with Trump's target audience.
grue@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 45d
It's disappointing and not worthwhile because the would-be fascist dictator and well-known pedophile decided to make it about him and drove away everyone competent to make it fun.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 45d
Incompetent fascism is embarrassing even to fascists.
NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 45d
And a stage that literally startwdbfalling apart during an act lol
aceshigh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 45d
They’ve only had a heatwave recently. The fair was poorly attended before the heatwave.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 45d
There was an event down the road that had considerable people at it. So the heat excuse kinda falls flat.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 45d
Send deets. Peopoe might want to go.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 44d
It was on Reddit on another post with someone mentioning that there was an event a few blocks away from the fair that had a large number of people. Went back but I could no longer find it.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 45d
Ain’t nobody want to go to a pedophile fair.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 44d
Her actual video: https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnns-kaitlan-collins-savages-trumps-flop-fair-after-seeing-it-for-herself/
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 44d
Why did they decide on calling it a "State Fair" anyway? Wouldn't it have made more sense to call it The National Fair?
NerdInSuspenders@leminal.space · 15 pts · 44d
“State Fair” in a non-state as well. Not even a commonwealth.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 45d
Geez you’d think that’d have been a doorbuster.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 44d
Will there be more visitors than degrees Fahrenheit at Trumps speech today?
HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub · 5 pts · 44d
I don't even know fuhrerheit but I bet there will be more, if you count security and all the trash.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 8 pts · 45d
Are they asking the booths how much foot traffic they need to justify the state expenditure to be there? Because they are wasting taxpayer money to be bored and hot currently.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 45d
It would be a pittance compared to the billions Trump is stealing from taxpayers. At least the people paid to run the booths are regular people and not billionaires.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 45d
My state spent zero tax dollars on this campaign rally, but apparently we had a table. Someone from a Trump organization drove down there and manned a table in our name
BruisedMoose@piefed.social · 8 pts · 44d
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.
matlag@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 44d
That link can be found in another article for which I'm not providing any link.
You're welcome!!
Blooper@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 45d
I really wanted to watch the video but maybe because I'm on moving, that site is a shit show. The ads interrupt the video every few seconds.
Hux@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 45d
Ditto. It is a pretty effective advertising machine, but content delivery seems to be almost accidental.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 45d
I'm a simple man. I see Kaitlan Collins, I click.
bayleaf@piefed.ca · 6 pts · 45d
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 45d
I hope she did.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 44d
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.
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 44d
What the fuck did they celebrate in that booth? Because the Union ain't it!
anarchy79@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 44d
Kaitlan is a national treasure.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 44d
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 😂
https://www.youtube.com/live/-9P_2DNgyZI
nullspace@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 45d
Not to defend Trump, but it's hot as shit on the east coast. Philadelphia even canceled their 4th of July parade because of the heat.
I don't think people would have shown up regardless of which pedophile was in charge.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 45d
I mean, he's the party that is continuing to dismantle green energy. So this is sorta like a self inflicted nut punch.
nullspace@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 45d
The best kind of nut punch.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 44d
On the same day the government stopped offering incentives for alternatives to oil and coal.
They will be canceling more events in the future.