Musicians Drop Out of President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair: ‘It’s a No for Me’
Two performers withdrew within hours after the lineup was announced, and organizers said the other scheduled acts have not yet commented.
- Grammy-Nominated singer Morris Day and rapper Young MC withdrew from the Freedom 250 festival tied to the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
- The 16-day Freedom 250 festival begins June 25 to celebrate America's 250th anniversary as a federally supported initiative featuring cultural and patriotic programming.
- Singer Jodie Rocco and members of Milli Vanilli denied being booked, joining Young MC and Day in claiming they were unaware of any political affiliation with the event.
- Despite the departures, performers including Vanilla Ice, Bret Michaels, The Commodores, and Flo Rida remain on the festival's lineup, according to reporting.
- C+C Music Factory frontman Freedom Williams posted an eight-minute video addressing fan criticism, while Freedom 250 organizers remained silent on the lineup discrepancies.
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A bunch of musicians have already dropped out of Trump's Freedom 250 "Great American State Fair"
Although there was always going to be some kind of wide exultation of conservative-minded nationalism timed to this year’s American semiquincentennial—planning for the event has been running since 2016, and these big anniversaries are, by their very nature, catnip to any of a country’s more backwards-looking minds—Donald Trump has still worked hard to get his greasy thumbprints all over the big birthday bash. In some ways, that effort is working…
‘It’s a No for Me’: Artists Bail on Trump's 'Great American State Fair' Just Hours After Lineup Was Announced
Donald Trump’s flashy “Great American State Fair” is already starting to look less like a patriotic celebration and more like a political embarrassment. Just hours after organizers proudly unveiled the entertainment lineup for the Trump-linked event, multiple artists publicly pulled out, making clear they wanted nothing to do with the political baggage attached to it. The fair, scheduled to take over Washington, D.C.’s National Mall from June 25…
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