The Great American State Fair, Trump's 16-day National Mall celebration of America's 250th birthday, reportedly began with empty stalls, electrical chaos, and a cow named Melania, which may be the most honest exhibit the administration has produced all year.
Adding to that, the centerpiece Ferris wheel offering free rides with views of the mall, operated only "intermittently due to a faulty generator," with workers acknowledging the ride's unreliability as frustrated fairgoers waited in line.
"This whole production has been running behind," one water station vendor told the Post before pointing out the water "…was room temperature, just so you know. There's no ice yet."
Fair goers were able to see a calf named "Melania" — shipped in from West Virginia — with the owner, Piper Stolipher, 15, explaining to the Post, "We were trying to come up with patriotic names for the 250th year, and we came up with Melania, which is President Trump's wife and my teacher thought that they had a similar hair color, so it just fit."
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This is the Trump aesthetic in its purest form: huge promise, sad execution, weird animal. Everything is branded as a patriotic spectacle, then you arrive and find a generator coughing behind a fence, a fake plant representing Connecticut, and a calf named Melania doing more public-facing work than the Department of Commerce. This is less "America 250" and more like a Spirit Halloween installed inside a failing megachurch.
There is no better metaphor for Trump's America 250 than a fake plant representing Connecticut.
Previously:
• Trump's vision for America's 250th leaves historians shaking their heads
• The Good Liars went to Freedom 250 so the rest of us didn't have to
• What luck, America! Kash Patel's girlfriend joins Trump's talent-fleeing Freedom 250 event
