When Donald Trump decided to hijack the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, there was a good chance that things would go completely and very badly off the rails.
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The entire second Trump administration could be described as routine things gone off the rails and going terribly wrong, so why should the Fourth of July festivities be any different?
Donald Trump continues to place himself at the center of attention at every opportunity, all the while oblivious to the fact that he is the least popular president in polling history, and perhaps the least popular president in American history.
Unlike other presidents, Trump has never experienced a honeymoon period or a period of popular approval. Trump has always been divisive and unpopular, so when the most unpopular president decided to sabotage years of bipartisan planning for the 250th anniversary, you didn’t need a meteorologist to know which way the wind was blowing.
Trump’s Great American State Fair was a disaster from the start. Trump became the star of opening night after all musical acts stopped, and his the gathering was sparse assisted. Fox News broadcasts from the Fair and claims there is a large crowd of people there, while the channel’s cameras show it is empty, and now, with record heat in Washington, D.C., the Trump administration fears no one will show up for its July 4 speech.