Nah, we were apparently too busy trying to figure out if we would rather have the state represented by pickles or racists. (Again, I want to make it clear that I’m impressed with Mt. Olive’s response…I grew up in that area around people who would claim to have seen nothing wrong with that flag.)
Speaking of food, weren’t these pavilions supposed to feature a notable dish from each state? If so, everyone involved should be glad that Lesser South Carolina left their barbecue at home where it belongs.
California’s booth (I refuse to call these walk-in closets “pavilions”) isn’t exactly impressive, but at least it isn’t embarrassing. At the beginning of the video, I had hope that CA bucked the chair theme, but, no, there are a couple (being used for, gasp!, sitting rather than decor.) It’s basically just a tourism office.
If California’s “trade show booth” (it doesn’t rise to the level of a pavilion) is an example of a good one, I’d stay home regardless of politics.
Unless each state was giving out free samples of a signature food.
THAT would get a few more people there!
So many states could feature pizza!
I can only think of a few, there’ve got to be more:
Illinois has Chicago Deep Dish,
New Jersey has the flat slice,
Connecticut claims the first pizza joint,
Seattle has one with cream cheese,
Hawaii could claim “Hawaiian Pizza”…
… and New York can show off The Pizza Wars:
two competing pizzarias, both touting the best “Dollah Slice”!
After all the truly disastrous stuff that Trump and his acolytes have pulled off/tried to pull off, this one is just side-splittingly funny. Like Nelson funny.
A “Great American State Fair” is a good idea, and it would be nice to attend. I’d think of it as a world’s fair, only for the states in the US. As a foreigner, I’d be happy to attend a non-political exposition of all the states in the union. I’ve only been to about 23 states; I’d like to learn about more, especially the ones that I have not visited, and be tempted to make vacation plans accordingly.
But Trump had to politicize it, fronting in place of the musical acts that pulled out, and turning the event into a Trump Rally. That holds no interest for me; and the sad little booths that the individual states have, tell me that I’m not missing anything if I don’t attend.
No offense to my American friends, of which I have many. But I don’t think that I’m going to learn much from a pair of chairs for Maine, a chair and a side table for Oregon, and a mini-putt for Indiana. Or is that Illinois? Who knows? And with King Trump hanging over all, no thanks.
Don’t worry. Us Americans think it’s stupid, too. I feel a tang of embarrassment for whoever thought this was a good idea. Well, just a little.
I just think that, under competent leadership, the “State Fair” could have been something that people would remember in 50, 100 years. (OK to be honest, this one will be remembered, but I meant fondly remembered.)
OK, now that’s a missed opportunity! Imagine, walking in and there is a 200x200 foot screen with trump the magnificent and benevolent looking down on his people, and a booming voice says “WELCOME!”. And due to the advances of modern tech, his eyes follow you around.
I love President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair. I love its emptiness. Its expensive food. Its ability to confound Trump-friendly media outlets that keep pretending it’s going great.
This spectacle on the National Mall in Washington, DC, part of Trump’s Trump-centric celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, is like watching your high school bully host a party that no one attends. It’s a daily humiliation for a wildly unpopular president who coopted what should be a unifying national celebration and turned it into repellent schlock.
And I love it so much it hurts.
In the heat wave that has consumed most of America, I am cooled by the country’s frosty reception of the fair, and shamelessly drunk on schadenfreude.
In a social media post on June 29, Trump ‒ who is definitely not mad ‒ wrote: “Do you think people appreciate what a fantastic job we did in building and operating the Great American State Fair at the National Mall, packed with happy people, and everybody loving it? Ask yourself this simple question, ‘DO YOU THINK THAT OBUMA OR SLEEPY JOE BIDEN COULD HAVE DONE IT?’ THE ANSWER IS NO!”
Oh, man, somebody inject that tragic self-pity straight into my veins.
Yesterday was MAHA-Monday (make America healthy again) at the fair. To kick it off, they had a pancake-eating contest because nothing says healthy like cramming excessive amounts of pancakes in your face as fast as you can.
Contestants could be seen and heard gagging as they tried to eat, and as Fox News said, “the guy who won appeared really worried he wasn’t going to be able to keep the pancakes down, but in the end, he made it.” The winner was reportedly chosen by “audience applause,” which appeared to consist of a dozen people.
This can’t be a real fair anymore, can it? They’re actively trying to make this a joke, right?
The beautiful irony of the Fox News chron “Great American State Fair Celebrates MAHA Movement” over a shot of a man trying to re-swallow his regurgitated pancakes.
(Again, I want to make it clear that I’m impressed with Mt. Olive’s response…I grew up in that area around people who would claim to have seen nothing wrong with that flag.)
