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"AMERICA 250" is NOT a celebration of the rapist felon grandson of a German who came here in 1885 and opened a bordello.
May. 29, 2026, 2:25 PM EDT
By Ja'han Jones
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-america250-performers-freedom-250
Confusion seems to be the prevailing sentiment among the raft of artists who have vehemently denied they’ll be performing at Donald Trump’s so-called Great American State Fair in June, the MAGA-fueled event he and his allies are planning in Washington, D.C., pegged to America’s 250th anniversary.
Artists like singer Martina McBride, rocker Bret Michaels and the crooning Commodores all said they had initially understood that they would be performing at a bipartisan event and not what is effectively a MAGA-branded publicity stunt.
Such claims may be hard to believe in some cases. But it is true that Trump and his allies are attempting to hijack the nation’s anniversary, sowing confusion about who is behind various events in the process.
Congress authorized funding a decade ago for an official anniversary celebration, “America250,” but as I have referenced in previous blogs, Trump supporters have stood up a separate, Trump-allied organization called Freedom 250 to host its own events. Among these are events like the Christian nationalist “revival” hosted on the national mall and the UFC fight on the White House lawn on the president’s birthday.
By Ja'han Jones
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-america250-performers-freedom-250
Confusion seems to be the prevailing sentiment among the raft of artists who have vehemently denied they’ll be performing at Donald Trump’s so-called Great American State Fair in June, the MAGA-fueled event he and his allies are planning in Washington, D.C., pegged to America’s 250th anniversary.
Artists like singer Martina McBride, rocker Bret Michaels and the crooning Commodores all said they had initially understood that they would be performing at a bipartisan event and not what is effectively a MAGA-branded publicity stunt.
Such claims may be hard to believe in some cases. But it is true that Trump and his allies are attempting to hijack the nation’s anniversary, sowing confusion about who is behind various events in the process.
Congress authorized funding a decade ago for an official anniversary celebration, “America250,” but as I have referenced in previous blogs, Trump supporters have stood up a separate, Trump-allied organization called Freedom 250 to host its own events. Among these are events like the Christian nationalist “revival” hosted on the national mall and the UFC fight on the White House lawn on the president’s birthday.
Born and raised in Kallstadt, in what was then the Kingdom of Bavaria, Trump immigrated to the United States in 1885. In 1891, he began speculating in real estate in Seattle. During the Klondike Gold Rush, he moved to Yukon, Canada and made his fortune by operating a restaurant and a brothel for miners in Whitehorse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump