Trump proposes 'wild' rally instead of concerts after artists back out of series

[marmar]

(Guardian) In a spree of posts made to his Truth Social account on Saturday, Donald Trump lauded his administration’s efforts to turn the National Mall’s reflecting pool blue, denounced a judge’s ruling removing his name from the Kennedy Center and announced he will hold an “America Is Back” rally next month to replace a concert series after a number of performers backed out.

After arriving at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, at 11.08am, Trump posted to his social media platform 25 times in the next two hours. The president’s posts included a series of apparently AI-generated images, including one of him playing for the New York Knicks and dunking over New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul; another of him riding a horse alongside George Washington and a Trump-branded race car tearing up the White House lawn; and one depicting the “Obama presidential library” as a huge garbage can holding a giant trash bag.

In two lengthy posts, Trump decried the musical artists who backed out of a summer concert series planned to celebrate the United States’s 250th anniversary, and a judge’s ruling finding that the Kennedy Center memorial cannot be renamed for Trump without an act of Congress.

“I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate ‘Artists,’ and give a major speech, rallying the Country forward like I have done ever since being President!” Trump wrote. ..............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/30/trump-rally-social-media

[CincyDem]

1. Last time he invited folks to a "wild" time, we got J6.

[rampartd]

2. if we recognize their code

the proud boys sure do.

[Johonny]

3. Something 1 percent of America will watch

Excellent.

[tonkatoy8888]

4. "...these highly paid, Third Rate 'Artists'..."

What kind of events have Third Rate performers?

Third Rate Events.

Even he realizes it.

[Vinca]

5. Sounds like a plan to milk the poorly educated fan base some more. After all, they will need their official hats,

shirts, books, commemorative coins and posters for the low, low price of 1,000% over value.

[orangecrush]

6. He's going to incite another riot.

[gulliver]

7. I don't want "names"

I don't care about famous artists. I don't care about entertainment. As many may have noticed, there's a lot of entertainment available now. We get entertained everywhere we go. I've now heard "Down on the Corner" so many times I actually cringe when I hear it.

July 4th should be one day, some good food, some fireworks, some ambient music from competent musicians. It should be family, not a bunch of people staring up at some corporate personality waving their arms.

I also don't want to see Trump turn the thing into some kind of Republican political rally. It looks like the musicians have been scared away by all the partisanship. Now we're stuck with a political rally. Great. (Sarcasm)

As I've noted before, Dems could try to do a nonpartisan alternative. No names. No posturing. Patriotic and simple.

Trump's not going to do that, I think. Although, who knows? He may go for the simple, patriotic stuff too. Not some ego fest for himself. But who knows?