Trump's Great American State Fair has moved past empty booths, busted rides, and a cow named Melania into its next phase of patriotic pageantry: people gagging through a pancake-eating contest.
Nothing could be more on brand for Trump. Promise the nation greatness, build a sad fair, fail at electricity, deploy livestock branding, then ask a few poor souls to shovel pancakes into their faces until the audience can see democracy's gag reflex. The fair is no longer an event. It is a diagnostic test for a country that keeps mistaking humiliation for patriotism. How low will you go?
At least the pancakes tried to come back up, which is more courage than most Republican officials have shown.
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Previously:
• Competitive eater's jaw-dropping feat: 7 Pounds of Pho in 15 minutes (video)
• Joey Chestnut banned from Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest
• Watch this young woman eat 50 Krispy Kreme donuts
• Scenes from a vegan hot dog eating contest
