Freedom 250 is calling crowd critics "Negative Nancy skeptics" as DC News Now reported sparse attendance at the Great American State Fair.President Donald TrumpFreedom 250 is calling crowd critics "Negative Nancy skeptics" as DC News Now reported sparse attendance at the Great American State Fair.President Donald Trump

Freedom 250 organizers throw tantrum at 'Negative Nancy skeptics' over small crowds

2026/07/01 06:49
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Freedom 250 is calling crowd critics "Negative Nancy skeptics" as DC News Now reported sparse attendance at the Great American State Fair.

President Donald Trump created Freedom 250 to run the 16-day fair on the National Mall, part of America's 250th anniversary celebration.

Freedom 250 organizers throw tantrum at 'Negative Nancy skeptics' over small crowds

"Anyone betting on empty celebrations bet wrong," Freedom 250 spokesperson Julia Friedland told DC News Now's Ben Dennis.

"Freedom 250 is not interested in arguing with the Negative Nancy skeptics; we're busy celebrating with Americans flocking to DC from every corner of the best nation in the world," the spokesperson argued, and claimed that more than 150,000 people had attended in the first three days.

"This Fourth of July marks the beginning of America's 250th birthday celebration, a once-in-a-generation milestone," Freedom 250 spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said. "For 250 years, America has been the greatest nation in the history of the world. This isn't just another Independence Day. It's America's 250th. And history only comes around once."

"Do you think people appreciate what a fantastic job we did in building and operating the Great American State Fair at the National Mall, packed with happy people, and everybody loving it?" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Trump separately claimed the opening-night crowd was "packed to the brim — At least 45,000 people were there."

Independent media reports suggested that there was less enthusiasm for the Freedom 250 events than the organizers claimed.

NBC News reported attendance at "more than 1,000," while the Washington Post described opening-day crowds as "relatively sparse compared with past National Mall events."

The fair runs through July 10. Trump is scheduled to speak again at the fair on July 4.

Second lady Usha Vance attended the Great American State Fair on the National Mall to host a bookmark contest, but despite her efforts to pretend otherwise, she was greeted with the same thing the rest of the Trump administration has seen — sparse to nearly nonexistent attendance.

According to The Daily Beast, "the vice president’s wife presented the winners of her 'Bookmark Design Challenge to Celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary,'" in which children from kindergarten to 8th grade showed off their “original, hand-drawn bookmark reflecting what America means to them.”

“I’m so excited to spend the summer celebrating America’s 250th anniversary through art, through books, and through outdoor fun like this with kids across the country,” she told the audience — of just "a few dozen people," according to The Beast.

The second lady's reception was par for the course, as the Great American State Fair — an event put on by President Donald Trump's partisan "Freedom 250" organization, which has crowded out funding and marketing for the Congressionally approved, bipartisan America250 celebration — has seen extremely low attendance.

The event has seen a number of embarrassments, including the refusal of several states to send delegations, electrical malfunctions that took attractions like the Ferris wheel offline for a period, and displays that are already falling apart.

Despite this, Trump and administration officials have insisted everything is a huge hit, with guests like Medicare and Medicaid administrator Dr. Oz insisting to a nearly empty audience that the crowds are great.

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The Federalist co-founder Sean Davis, a prominent pro-Trump conservative media figure, is drowning in criticism after proposing that the U.S. "require sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry."

Davis posted a seven-point list on X after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that birthright citizenship — the guarantee that anyone born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen — remains the law of the land.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the majority in the 6-3 decision.

"Several ways forward here given the choice of Roberts/Barrett to nullify the 14th Amendment and extra-constitutionally replace it with their own language," Davis wrote on X.

His list included barring entry to all pregnant foreigners, barring entry to all female foreigners, and dissolving the United States entirely.

"6) Dissolution of the Union. A nation which can't even restrict who gets to be a citizen isn't a nation," he wrote.

"Yes, that's what happens when John Roberts tries to cosplay as King Solomon," Davis added.

"Completely deranged," wrote Tablet Magazine editor Park MacDougald.

"This whole list is absolute BONKERS," New York Times columnist David French argued. "It is absolutely bizarre that these people believe that the continued application of a rule that has existed for generation after generation…is somehow the root of our national demise."

"When you hate immigrants so much that you want government-run sterilization," commented 2024 Libertarian presidential nominee Chase Oliver. "They don't want a Republic, they want fascism."

"It's … interesting to describe 'deferring to the relevant statute and the relevant century-old precedent' as 'nullifying the Constitution,'" Notre Dame law professor Rick Garnett pushed back on X.

Independent journalist Michael Tracey pointed out that Davis was now calling for the union's dissolution over a justice his own outlet once called "the best person, period" for the Supreme Court.

Leiden University law professor Yuan Yi Zhu's post highlighted Davis' sterilization idea.

"The obvious solution is to force all foreigners to become gay at reverse-conversion-therapy clinic[s] sited at every major point of entry," journalist Jesse Singal quipped. "It's called 'centrism,' look it up."

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a midterm convention slated for Dallas, Texas, ahead of the highly anticipated November election.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, he shared details about the "first time ever" event on Sept. 9 and 10.

"BIG NEWS! For the first time ever, the Republican Party will hold a MIDTERM CONVENTION," Trump wrote. "It will be in Dallas, Texas — One of my favorite places in the World. It will be fantastic! It has never been done before, and will be a truly Historic Event."

Trump described what he anticipates the event to be about, as it appears to be an unusual event to try and boost voter turnout among Republicans, The Associated Press reported.

"We are going to celebrate the GREAT AMERICAN COMEBACK, and the incredible successes of the American People who transformed our Country through the America First Agenda — NO TAX ON TIPS, NO TAX ON OVERTIME, NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY, STRONGER BORDERS, SAFEST EVER COMMUNITIES, LOWER COSTS AND REAL AFFORDABILITY, MORE JOBS, AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE, AND SO MUCH MORE! Oil Prices are dropping sharply, even as we Denuclearize Iran," Trump wrote.

Trump has suggested the idea of having a convention ahead of the midterms, as the Republican Party fights to maintain control of its thin majority in the House and Senate. He has voiced concern that if Democrats regain control of either legislative chamber, Democratic lawmakers will work to fight back against his policies and launch investigations into his second administration during the two remaining years of his term, according to AP.

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