# Freedom 250 - The Great American State Fair **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2026, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470 "2026-05-29T03:08:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/181 "2026-06-04T22:38:08Z")
Wikipedia says of Christopher Macchio, “During the 2024 United States presidential election, Macchio performed at the 2024 Republican National Convention, Donald Trump’s return rally at Butler, Pennsylvania, his Madison Square Garden rally, and The Star-Spangled Banner at the second inauguration of Donald Trump in January 2025 making him the first male singer since 2005 to perform the anthem at the ceremony.” ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/182 "2026-06-04T23:05:45Z")
> [@from wguy123's link](#): > > who will sing Nessun Dorma, Hallelujah, Ave Maria, God Bless America, and others You know, just the normal stuff you hear at State Fairs all the time! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/183 "2026-06-04T23:32:03Z")
All the stuff Trump plays at home for his own enjoyment while he does house stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/184 "2026-06-04T23:33:34Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > On Wednesday, June 24th, at 7 P.M., in magnificent Washington, D.C., now totally beautified, and one of the Safest Cities anywhere in the World, and in celebration of our Country’s 250 Year History, we will be bringing you, LIVE, the Greatest Rally, EVER! That’s my fucking birthday God damn it. 😡 Asshole has to ruin that too. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/185 "2026-06-04T23:50:42Z")
Lee Greenwood’s Proud to Be an American is “the brown sound”. It certainly gives _me_ the shits. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/186 "2026-06-05T00:20:09Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > That’s my fucking birthday God damn it. For round numbers there are 380 million Americans. Which means roughly 1 million Americans have that birthday. Given asshole’s 38% approval rate, about 625K people share your pissed-offedness about their besmerched birthday. There isn’t always strength in numbers. But there is always camaraderie! Drink heavily and toast your like-minded fellows. All 625K of them. You are multitudes! 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/187 "2026-06-05T00:44:22Z")
On a similar note my wife’s birthday is January 6th. Yep. And, trust me, every time her birthday rolls around the last 5 years her reaction is exactly the same as yours @Atamasama . ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/188 "2026-06-05T00:53:16Z")
If anyone is struggling with the shit that’s happened over the centuries on your birthday check out this site. There’s a dozen interesting things to celebrate every day of the year. **[World Holidays](https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays)**. Then scroll down past the country list. I make a toast to something somewhere nearly every day. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/189 "2026-06-05T01:10:47Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > On a similar note my wife’s birthday is January 6th. Yeah, I retract my objection. I can’t complain in the face of that. That’s like griping about a hangnail while someone next to me is decapitated. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/190 "2026-06-05T01:53:23Z")
I really wonder with this late planning how many people will actually show up? We are talking 20 days from now. Also, I took one for the team and visited the Freedum 250 website, and they don’t mention this event that starts before their advertised starting date of the 25th. I guess the Freedum 250 web team didn’t get the tweet. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/191 "2026-06-05T02:05:21Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Here is the final agenda for the great Freedum 250 rally (from one of his latest tweets). I"m sort of afraid to ask… but is this a real, honest to God Trump tweet? Complete with “Unites States Marine Band”? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/192 "2026-06-05T02:26:15Z")
Idjit Agent Orange isn’t writing those tweets. The grammar and style is somebody or something else trying to mimic his style lite. It is on his account though. So sorta kinda with his approval to the degree he’s still able to exercise “approval” of anything. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/193 "2026-06-05T02:34:40Z")
It really is. I’m sure it will be in legit new sources now, but I don’t know how to link direct to his idiotic Truth post since I refuse to subscribe. You can go here and find it: > **[Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/)** ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/194 "2026-06-05T02:37:40Z")
Good God. So he really posted about the “Unites States Marine Band” And this has stayed up there for people to see for… hours now. I know this is small potatoes for Trump shit, but … spelling the actual name of the country wrong? Really? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/195 "2026-06-05T02:43:39Z")
Marine _Corps_ Band. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/196 "2026-06-05T03:26:19Z")
The link I posted in the first post is no longer on the Freedom250 website. (Though I guess it will live forever on the internet.) They have put a new page up which is extremely pared down with no mention of any musical acts, activities or even the daily “themes”. It’s all free but they encourage you to register so they can sell have your info to facilitate your free entry. (I see the “themes” are listed on the registration page.) > [@wguy123](#): > > Also, I took one for the team and visited the Freedum 250 website, and they don’t mention this event that starts before their advertised starting date of the 25th. I guess the Freedum 250 web team didn’t get the tweet. The planning for all of this seems sub-optimal. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/197 "2026-06-05T03:44:14Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > The planning for all of this seems sub-optimal. The two small, local non-profits I’m part of (on the board), would be embarrassed to have these sorts of changes with this short order. We tend to lock things in way before 20 days prior. You know, we advertise, put it in our newsletters, put it on social media, etc. And guess what? We don’t have any paid professionals on our staff. Glad to see this “national” event ran worse than the local PTA fund-raiser. (I’m not on the PTA…just an example). ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/198 "2026-06-05T03:50:22Z")
Also, if you want to know how Fox News is reporting on this event, this is a screenshot of what you will find right now. Yes, they are hawking collectibles, Washington’s beer recipe, and Vanilla Ice. Jesus fucking wept. [![](https://i.imgur.com/Zr4fxlA.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/Zr4fxlA.png) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/199 "2026-06-05T05:20:09Z")
Never was Washington’s sour puss more appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2026, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470/200 "2026-06-05T05:28:20Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > I know this is small potatoes for Trump shit, but … spelling the actual name of the country wrong? Really? Chill, man! Have a cup of covfefe and relax. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freedom-250-the-great-american-state-fair/1030470.md?page=11)