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.
Reality is not trolling.
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.
Reality often has a troll like bias.
Eris you feisty little minx.
All hail Eris. All hail discordia.
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Is it really trolling to make factual statements?
At this point yes
Journalism == trolling. Nobody told you?
Journalism is trolling and facts are liberal spin.
You can troll with facts, yes. Trolling is more about intent and tone than accuracy or objectivity.
Reality has long had a liberal bias.
The state of modern journalism is extremely depressing.
Dump is going to froth his diapers in rage and try to get her fired for this
Didn’t Ellison recently acquire CNN? If so she’ll very likely get fired and blackballed by all the right-wing propaganda outlets
Sounds like a plus to me
Following his speech, the president is planning on setting off fireworks for 40 minutes in an attempt to break the world record for fireworks. Firework manufacturers have said this will cost many millions of dollars, but the White House is yet to disclose exactly how much they are spending and how they obtained the funds.
Those USAID funds, and funding for dozens of other programs, aren’t going where they’re legally supposed to anymore, so probably from there.
Nah they’ve already spent those funds, u said was cut months ago
He’s spent these too probably. It’ll just be a dozen interns shaking pill bottles full of pennies and shouting bang
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
Almost certainly not. The labor day fireworks they shoot off in Cincinnati every year last at least that long.
Yeah, no shot.
First comment on the article, “that’s not ‘trolling’ - that’s reporting”
Damn straight.
Reality isn’t a troll. Reality only trolls a troll.
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.
I grew up in the 80s and 90s and I remember hearing a lot of references to “The Bicentennial.”
Why did they decide on calling it a “State Fair” anyway? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to call it The National Fair?
“State Fair” in a non-state as well. Not even a commonwealth.
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.
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.
I think they’re back to calling it communism now.
reporting is trolling now???
Will there be more visitors than degrees Fahrenheit at Trumps speech today?
I don’t even know fuhrerheit but I bet there will be more, if you count security and all the trash.
There was an event down the road that had considerable people at it. So the heat excuse kinda falls flat.
Send deets. Peopoe might want to go.
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.
Ain’t nobody want to go to a pedophile fair.
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.
A lot of people probably simply aren’t interested in going to an outdoor event during a record-breaking heatwave.
Especially not to see:
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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
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A cheap mockery of greco-roman architecture executed in the medium of plywood facades on top of white plastic tents
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A succession of 4th-rate bands and performers nobody has heard of on a small stage
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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.
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.
And a stage that literally startwdbfalling apart during an act lol
Incompetent fascism is embarrassing even to fascists.
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They’ve only had a heatwave recently. The fair was poorly attended before the heatwave.
