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hatrack

(65,410 posts)
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 10:33 AM Yesterday

Awwww!!! Sad Trumpers!! They Roasted In The Heat, Got Shooed Off The Mall By Cops, Spent Lots of Money

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But a little before 7 p.m., attendees were ordered to leave the grounds because of approaching violent storms and seek shelter in nearby museums and government buildings. Many on the Mall balked at the order, and some yelled at U.S. Park Police and other law enforcement agents who directed them to leave as skies darkened above them. As the Mall was being cleared, other people continued to arrive, only to be turned away. On Pennsylvania Avenue NW, just steps from the White House, authorities were shepherding attendees from the event perimeter. Crowds streamed in all directions, in search of shelter or a restaurant or their hotels. Officers blew whistles and shouted for everyone to clear the area. But hundreds of people, some in star-spangled outfits or Trump-themed gear, stayed nearby hoping to be let back in.

John Kile, who flew in from Dublin just for the event, fumed at having been turned away. He said he tried to gain access at several checkpoints, spending hours waiting in line. “We came all the way here for the Fourth of July event, got an expensive hotel, and we can’t get in,” said Kile, 29. “And it’s … 100 degrees, so, yeah, definitely a letdown.” “It doesn’t seem to be well-orchestrated to be honest,” he added.

Kile still hoped to be let in, but for others, the strain of the day had proved too much. A dejected Michala Herbster and her grandparents, Carl and Debbie Herbster, sat on a ledge near the Wilson Building, not far from the Mall. The trio waited in line for over two hours in the “unbearable” heat, in hopes of getting a good spot for the fireworks show — and, more importantly, Trump’s speech. After being evacuated from the Mall, all the family wanted to do was to get back to their hotel. Michala, 23, traveled from Ringgold, Louisiana, for the holiday, while her grandparents came in from Indianapolis. “Very expensive trips,” Debbie groused. Unable to call an Uber to get back to their hotel, they headed to the Federal Triangle metro stop, heads bowed slightly as rain continued to fall.

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Two couples who had been waiting for updates commiserated about the many indignities of the day. “I paid thousands of dollars to come use a Porta Potty for the first time in my life,” said Tanya Wells of Connecticut. “That’s the first time for me, too,” said Georgia resident Almira Bacon. The Bacons and Wellses — who met while waiting out the rain — had challenging days. Michael Bacon described hours of trekking between security checkpoints and waiting in long lines because of contradictory instructions from law enforcement officers. Wells and her husband, Jeremy, echoed his complaints about a lack of clarity from event organizers.

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https://wapo.st/4oZVh1i

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/07/05/july-4-fireworks-national-mall-brilliant-end-challenging-day/

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Awwww!!! Sad Trumpers!! They Roasted In The Heat, Got Shooed Off The Mall By Cops, Spent Lots of Money (Original Post) hatrack Yesterday OP
ETTD! stumpysbear Yesterday #1
TSF promised em a 4th they'll never forget and he came thru so what's the problem? Deuxcents Yesterday #2
I like the way you think! Mr. Evil Yesterday #34
Thank goodness popsdenver Yesterday #45
The irony of MAGA having to seek shelter in the African American museum. LetMyPeopleVote Yesterday #3
On the bright side, maybe they learned that mother nature does not play favorites 70sEraVet Yesterday #15
I'm sure they'd blame the thunderstorms on the Democrats if they could find a way to do it. ShazzieB Yesterday #28
Yup Lemon Lyman Yesterday #37
Sadly, you are incorrect. "geoengineering" the weather, according niyad 22 hrs ago #47
Wow, there must be thousands of them MAGA critters in there Bluetus Yesterday #20
This God character had them all in one spot. Dr. T Yesterday #29
Maybe they learned something about African American history while there. Naw, who am I kidding. Raftergirl 17 hrs ago #53
I'm most interested in the MAGAts that claim they've never used a porta potty. BannonsLiver Yesterday #4
Talk about privilege.... frogstar0 Yesterday #5
They probably use the bushes, instead. GoCubsGo Yesterday #18
No camping or outdoor activities for them. BidenRocks Yesterday #21
Any big outdoor event. Our local farmers' markets. Even construction niyad 22 hrs ago #48
Eau du Campsite BidenRocks 19 hrs ago #50
Someone should check the Capitol Raven123 Yesterday #6
They're used to just shitting on the furniture and in the hallways ToxMarz Yesterday #8
The Park Police should be careful Turbineguy Yesterday #7
It sounds like some of them did see it as something akin to that! ShazzieB Yesterday #30
The guy who flew in from Ireland definitely should get a REFUND! FakeNoose Yesterday #9
What he needs to get is his head examined. Vinca Yesterday #10
No doubt blaming "the left" for it durablend Yesterday #11
Didn't you see the bit in another OP about Dems "geoengineering" niyad Yesterday #13
Another Antifa triumph! SergeStorms Yesterday #23
I'm fascinated by the way MAGAs have taken to blaming weather events on nefarious liberals... Ol Janx Spirit Yesterday #31
Shaking down the stupid people. paleotn Yesterday #12
I have not one single fuck to give about any of them. niyad Yesterday #14
"Commies" would have done a much better job. Mblaze Yesterday #16
Mall cops. LOL Bluetus Yesterday #17
They would say God hates libs Delarage Yesterday #19
Each person extremely stupid and vapid. Their loss would mean nothing dave99 Yesterday #22
I suggest they go home, refinance their houses and put it all into the Trump meme coin. NoMoreRepugs Yesterday #24
The National Commander.... SergeStorms Yesterday #25
Meanwhile, Trump got ushered into his air-conditioned glass cage, MineralMan Yesterday #26
From the WaPo article (thanks for gift link!) yardwork Yesterday #27
The bar is low with this bunch. Dr. T Yesterday #32
They are used to a few bottle rockets and sparklers in the trailer park. redstatebluegirl Yesterday #35
They were just bored. Or in disbelief that it was so boring. Ms. Toad Yesterday #36
The annual fireworks put on by local volunteer fire departments sound more interesting. yardwork Yesterday #42
The only fireworks I really like are at our local minor-league ball park. Ms. Toad Yesterday #43
"I paid thousands of dollars to come use a Porta Potty" snot Yesterday #33
From Titanic the Musical Wednesdays 16 hrs ago #54
Oh, and some details on Michala and her sad Trumper family from Ringgold and Indianapolis . . . hatrack Yesterday #38
You know what I do when taking a trip? Buddyzbuddy Yesterday #39
Complaining about having to use a Porta Potty? Have they never attended an event of any kind before? Martin68 Yesterday #40
It kind of sounds that way, doesn't it? yardwork Yesterday #44
I have a great deal less sympathy for those who voted for Trump than I do for people like me who have always loved the Martin68 Yesterday #46
Look on the bright side, kiddos. Grokenstein Yesterday #41
Well, if you decide to believe in Trump, there WILL be a cost for doing that. calimary 20 hrs ago #49
It always gets me Blue_Roses 19 hrs ago #51
When will they finally realize Faux pas 18 hrs ago #52
no worse than a nascar event. rampartd 7 hrs ago #55

popsdenver

(2,886 posts)
45. Thank goodness
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:55 PM
Yesterday

it didn't end up like the Catholic World Youth Day in Denver back in 1994?................300 to 400 THOUSAND KIDS, out in the open, temps in the 90's, with nowhere near enough water and porta potties. It wasn't just the heat, they had all just walked 10 miles, in 90+ degree heat, from downtown Denver to the Cherry Creek Reservoir Area......and most of them from the flatlands weren't used to the 5K altitude of Denver......
It was quickly declared the largest *Mass Casualty Incident* ever recorded..........EMT's and Paramedics from a radius of 50 miles around Denver were pouring in emergent.......from noon to 8pm that night, they started over 20,000 IV's in dehydrated kids that were crumping from the heat.......Un-real that no one died.........Thank goodness, the Colorado National Guard, in large numbers, was also on duty at the event, guarding Bill Clinton and the Pope........their help made all the difference......

70sEraVet

(5,785 posts)
15. On the bright side, maybe they learned that mother nature does not play favorites
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:14 PM
Yesterday

rains on White Nationalists same as on racial minorities!

ShazzieB

(23,129 posts)
28. I'm sure they'd blame the thunderstorms on the Democrats if they could find a way to do it.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:00 PM
Yesterday

But that would be a reach even for the brainwashed MAGA cultists. Too bad, so sad!

niyad

(135,641 posts)
47. Sadly, you are incorrect. "geoengineering" the weather, according
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:33 PM
22 hrs ago

to some crackpots.

Bluetus

(3,384 posts)
20. Wow, there must be thousands of them MAGA critters in there
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:29 PM
Yesterday

How did they squeeze in so many?

Dr. T

(850 posts)
29. This God character had them all in one spot.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:03 PM
Yesterday

One good, hard lightening bolt would have provided sufficient smite force to do some bigly smiting. I'm disappointed.

Raftergirl

(1,927 posts)
53. Maybe they learned something about African American history while there. Naw, who am I kidding.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 09:13 PM
17 hrs ago

frogstar0

(277 posts)
5. Talk about privilege....
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 11:32 AM
Yesterday

Can anyone in America, not living in an extreme sheltered life, say they have never used a port a potty? I almost want to ask if they have servants wipe their butt for them but I won't.....

BidenRocks

(3,700 posts)
21. No camping or outdoor activities for them.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:33 PM
Yesterday

A regular Ramada Inn camper!

She's lucky to never had a natural disaster.
So much for tough, bad-assed maga warriors for Chump!

No bathroom, sorry!

niyad

(135,641 posts)
48. Any big outdoor event. Our local farmers' markets. Even construction
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 04:39 PM
22 hrs ago

zones, like when one of our parks was being redone.

ToxMarz

(3,212 posts)
8. They're used to just shitting on the furniture and in the hallways
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 11:53 AM
Yesterday

then smearing it on the walls

Turbineguy

(40,313 posts)
7. The Park Police should be careful
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 11:50 AM
Yesterday

the concept of coming in out of the rain could be misunderstood as having their freedom taken away.

ShazzieB

(23,129 posts)
30. It sounds like some of them did see it as something akin to that!
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:07 PM
Yesterday
John Kile, who flew in from Dublin just for the event, fumed at having been turned away. He said he tried to gain access at several checkpoints, spending hours waiting in line. “We came all the way here for the Fourth of July event, got an expensive hotel, and we can’t get in,” said Kile, 29.


Poor widdle disappointed MAGAs, upset about not being allowed to stay out in the rain and get struck by lightning!

FakeNoose

(43,228 posts)
9. The guy who flew in from Ireland definitely should get a REFUND!
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 11:58 AM
Yesterday

Maybe Chump will reimburse him?

Ol Janx Spirit

(1,141 posts)
31. I'm fascinated by the way MAGAs have taken to blaming weather events on nefarious liberals...
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:07 PM
Yesterday

...whom they simultaneously claim are too dum [sic] to even begin to understand the greatness of their cult leader.

MTG's "Jewish space lasers" linked to the Rothschild family intentionally sparking the California wildfires to clear land for a high-speed rail project; weather control technology to steer hurricane Helene toward Republican voters in order to tilt the presidential election; "fake" snow in Texas; "directed-energy weapons" to intentionally ignite Lahaina, Maui, to convert it into a "smart island"; etc.

It's not surprising. This is a group of people that will do anything at all to avoid inconvenient truths like the fact that scientists have been warning us about manmade climate change since at least 1938--or perhaps more accurately easily fall for the propaganda the fossil fuel industry pushes to them through Republican media and politicians.

Yet, many of them are absolutely certain without any evidence that some sort of "rapture" is coming any day now--again falling for the propaganda pushed at them by the industrial religion complex.

Oh, what a world, what a world!



NoMoreRepugs

(12,344 posts)
24. I suggest they go home, refinance their houses and put it all into the Trump meme coin.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:50 PM
Yesterday

May as well go all in at this point.

SergeStorms

(21,157 posts)
25. The National Commander....
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:50 PM
Yesterday

of Antifa was allowed to remain on the grounds.

Why not the MAGAs????????

MineralMan

(152,122 posts)
26. Meanwhile, Trump got ushered into his air-conditioned glass cage,
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:55 PM
Yesterday

where he gave his little speech. I think he fell asleep before the fireworks, show, though.

yardwork

(70,127 posts)
27. From the WaPo article (thanks for gift link!)
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:58 PM
Yesterday

Did AI wrote this fluff?

But the fireworks display that began a stroke before midnight and lasted 40 minutes, was a reward for those who stayed and may have provided a temporary respite for a capital and country riven by political anger, distrust and contempt.



In bursts of golds and yellows, reds, whites and blues, the fireworks illuminated the black canvas of the late-night sky. On the Mall, squeals of delight and disbelief could be heard from the outset. After a while, it seemed, attendees ran out of expressions of disbelief and just observed quietly.


A 40-minute fireworks display at midnight caused disbelief?

????

Ms. Toad

(38,956 posts)
36. They were just bored. Or in disbelief that it was so boring.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:19 PM
Yesterday

I watched the display. Perhaps a dozen stations, all fired off at exactly the same time, shooting the same fireworks. Looked like a field of identical, evenly spaced, daisies. Over and over.

Music was nice, but the amateur displays put on my BIL and cousin were far more interesting.

yardwork

(70,127 posts)
42. The annual fireworks put on by local volunteer fire departments sound more interesting.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:46 PM
Yesterday

Better food and better company, too. Easy to get back to your car if it rains. Money spent on a good local cause. True American values.

Ms. Toad

(38,956 posts)
43. The only fireworks I really like are at our local minor-league ball park.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:52 PM
Yesterday

They do an excellent job of timing the fireworks to the music, so it is like watching well-choreographed dancing fireworks.

snot

(11,961 posts)
33. "I paid thousands of dollars to come use a Porta Potty"
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:10 PM
Yesterday

What we've had from TPTB for too long.

Wednesdays

(23,543 posts)
54. From Titanic the Musical
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 10:29 PM
16 hrs ago

[ETCHES (spoken)]
The latest word, sir, seems to be that she's damaged one
of the wing propellers and we could be delayed for an entire
day, sir.

[THAYER]
I don't like the way this sounds

[GUGGENHEIM]
Not a bit, not a bit, not a little bit

[THAYER]
We spent eighteen hundred pounds

[GUGGENHEIM]
Not a bit, not a bit, not a little bit

[GUGGENHEIM, THAYER, & WIDENER]
This is not the sort of voyage we paid for!
I demand to know what the ship is delayed for
Right now!

hatrack

(65,410 posts)
38. Oh, and some details on Michala and her sad Trumper family from Ringgold and Indianapolis . . .
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:24 PM
Yesterday

Ringgold is a town in the U.S. state of Louisiana, in the western half of Bienville Parish. The town of Ringgold is named for United States Army Major Samuel Ringgold. As of the 2020 census, Ringgold had a population of 1,379. It is the second largest incorporated municipality in Bienville Parish by population.

Yep, and hard by Shreveport, Mike Johnson territory, Nowheresville - marinated for decades in mosquitoes, Fox News and fundy End Times churches, chockablock with apocalyptic bullshit and youth pastor sexual predation.

Trump country, IOW.

Buddyzbuddy

(3,094 posts)
39. You know what I do when taking a trip?
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:27 PM
Yesterday

I check the weather forecast. But when you think your President is God and the earth is 6000 years old, you're not likely to believe all that "sciency" stuff.

I must admit, it was sad to see so many baby strollers in the clip I saw in what was obviously ominous looking weather.

Martin68

(28,388 posts)
40. Complaining about having to use a Porta Potty? Have they never attended an event of any kind before?
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:31 PM
Yesterday

yardwork

(70,127 posts)
44. It kind of sounds that way, doesn't it?
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:53 PM
Yesterday

My overall feeling is sadness. It's sad that thousands of people spent a lot of money they couldn't afford to travel all the way to Trump's con show.

We here on DU expected it to be hot and humid, disorganized, and built with total contempt for the people attending. Apparently these folks still believe all Trump's promises and had no idea what they were walking into.

The sad part is they'll probably never visit the capital again. They missed all the best parts and will remember it with regret, anger, and probably a vague sense of shame for being conned. They'll immediately redirect those uncomfortable feelings as rage at Democrats.

Sad.

Martin68

(28,388 posts)
46. I have a great deal less sympathy for those who voted for Trump than I do for people like me who have always loved the
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:58 PM
Yesterday

monuments, museums, and restaurants of Washington, DC. We have been forced to watch as Trump despoils the city in every way he can imagine. He always hated the city and everything it stood for. This is his revenge.

Grokenstein

(6,473 posts)
41. Look on the bright side, kiddos.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 01:46 PM
Yesterday

Your lord and savior is still making a fortune while destroying the nation, so rejoice and accept your "Fell For It Again" ribbon with the quiet, thoughtful grace we've come to expect from bootlick magats. /s

Also, be thankful he didn't bus you miles deep in the woods then abandon you there during a cold snap.

I swear, pig could tell them his NFTs are inside a running industrial woodchipper and they'd fight each other to be first to dive in.

calimary

(91,627 posts)
49. Well, if you decide to believe in Trump, there WILL be a cost for doing that.
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 05:45 PM
20 hrs ago

And you’ll be expected to pay it, no matter how high, and whether you want to or not.

Bottom line, for him, is and will ALWAYS be, the money. Including YOURS.

Blue_Roses

(13,956 posts)
51. It always gets me
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 07:03 PM
19 hrs ago

how people think they are going to have access to a nice bathroom when they go to these outside events. Nobody likes porta potties, but it's better than nothing, especially if you're drinking beer.

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