{"id":27028,"date":"2026-07-03T11:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=27028"},"modified":"2026-07-03T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:46:20","slug":"trumps-great-american-state-fiar-goes-from-embarrassment-to-disaster-and-there-are-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/03\/trumps-great-american-state-fiar-goes-from-embarrassment-to-disaster-and-there-are-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Great American State Fiar&#8217; Goes from Embarrassment to Disaster \u2014 and There Are Alternatives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Wilson was right: everything Trump touches dies.<\/p>\n<p>MSNOW: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/news\/trump-july-4-washington-national-mall-fireworks\">\u2018It\u2019s going to be a disaster\u2019 \u2014 Concerns mount about Trump\u2019s supersized July Fourth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raw Story: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/0jM2c#selection-461.9-461.92\">Scorching heat and empty baptism pools \u2014 Inside Trump&#8217;s deserted American State Fair<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-state-fair-arch-cracks-yellow-goo_n_6a4671d0e4b07748e758dcf1\">Trump\u2019s State Fair Arch Mockup Is Cracking And Oozing Yellow Goo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AlterNet: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alternet.org\/trump-party-for-himself\/\">Trump threw a party for himself \u2014 and nobody came<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/latest-news-live-updates_n_6a423205e4b0f259890db64e\/liveblog_6a46cad4e4b07748e75c64f5\">Video Shows Freedom 250 Stage Falling Apart Mid-Rehearsal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HuffPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/native-american-advocacy-group-walked-away-from-americas-250th-celebration_n_6a46bcd3e4b03060a84f880f\">The Nation\u2019s Largest Native American Advocacy Group Walked Away From America\u2019s 250th Celebration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Salon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2026\/07\/03\/trump-wrecked-americas-250th-in-dc-but-other-blue-cities-will-save-it\/\">Trump wrecked America\u2019s 250th in DC, but other blue cities will save it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Wilson was right: everything Trump touches dies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27028"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27056,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27028\/revisions\/27056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}