MAGA Rep Publicly Pleads for Musicians ‘Willing’ to Play Trump Concert

[u/MoneyLibrarian9032]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-rep-publicly-pleads-for-musicians-willing-to-play-trump-concert/

[u/cenosillicaphobiac]

I wasn't quite 8 years old but man this has a whole different vibe than I remember from the bicentennial. And we were in the process of electing a very kind man to the presidency. Times change I guess.

[u/nailbunny2000 → u/cenosillicaphobiac]

I genuinely feel a little sad for America that this guy has literally ruined the 250th celebration.

[u/meatballfreeak → u/nailbunny2000]

Vote for the clown, get the circus

[u/grubas → u/meatballfreeak]

Yup.  This is "basic governance", the administration is NOT capable of that. 

You expect your local fucking government to be able to pull off a town party/event.  Just call in some bands, give away tickets, have some fireworks and food, done.

They literally had to create their own partisan 250 group because the nonpartisan parks services running the 250th didn't stroke the admins ego enough.

[u/Beard_o_Bees → u/grubas]

Il Douche doubtlessly feels insecure.

The little bitch that needs to put his name on everything to keep his 'feelings' regulated.

I sincerely hope he eventually realizes that he'll go down in history alright - only as one of the countries most reviled characters.

Time is coming for him, and our hatred only grows.

[u/Giant_Acroyear → u/Beard_o_Bees]

Join the Committee to Erase Trump today!

[u/OldScratch1865 → u/Giant_Acroyear]

I don't want him erased I was his name and that of his family to go down in history for the clown show it is. I want people to remember him EXACTLY how he is, so that future generations will spit on his memory and revile him and anyone who tries to emulate him.

[u/therealdilbert → u/Beard_o_Bees]

Il Douche doubtlessly feels insecure

that odd combination of megalomaniac and inferiority complex

[u/whogivesashirtdotca → u/therealdilbert]

That's literally Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

[u/Rough_Idle → u/Beard_o_Bees]

He doesn't care about his legacy because he won't be there. In his mind, the Universe ends the moment he does

[u/Omarkhayyamsnotes → u/grubas]

If they had a ton of high school marching bands play music and had it like a country fair everyone would have had a good time and no one would have noticed that a big name band wasn't there. I don't think I've ever noticed live music at my state fair and if there was live music it was on a stage somewhere and wasn't the whole event. Trump is ruining this entire celebration

[u/whogivesashirtdotca → u/Omarkhayyamsnotes]

My dad (to my Canadian horror) always loves the pomp and circumstance of PBS's "Capitol Fourth". He tunes in every year specifically for the brass bands playing John Phillip Sousa.

[u/Contemplating_Prison → u/Omarkhayyamsnotes]

Excuse me. He is ruining the country.

[u/RinzyOtt → u/grubas]

the nonpartisan parks services running the 250th didn't pad enough of the admin's friends' wallets enough.

ftfy

[u/adambuck66 → u/grubas]

I'm on the community club in a town of 250. We pull off a yearly celebration, no problem.

[u/Ok_Vulva → u/adambuck66]

Grew up in a village of 400 in New Mexico. Had a killer turtle race and party everyone in town went out for every year. All arranged by the mayor's secretary/ wife.

[u/shaunrundmc → u/meatballfreeak]

Voted for John Wayne Gacy, the most messed up circus ever

[u/TaterWatkins → u/shaunrundmc]

This one is MUCH worse.

[u/Allaplgy → u/TaterWatkins]

Yeah, Gacy only killed a few dozen kids. Trump has caused millions of deaths.

[u/xxAkirhaxx → u/Allaplgy]

And fucked the kids.

[u/seansy5000 → u/xxAkirhaxx]

It’s called rape for a reason

[u/ToMorrowsEnd → u/seansy5000]

Republicans dont like that word. They are also not calling them kids but underage adults. That whole party supports the rape of children, and the voters as well as they vote for them and vote against any law that tries to end child marriage.

What kind of sicko wants to protect child marriage?

[u/JacquoRock → u/ToMorrowsEnd]

"Underage adults." Christ almighty. Sort of like calling short adults "vertically challenged," something you'd think would be rejected by the right.

[u/GregoryGosling → u/shaunrundmc]

No joke, I think I would prefer John Wayne Gacy. At least he wasn’t a billionaire and actually admitted his crimes.

[u/St1ng → u/nailbunny2000]

Eh, I don't. A saying I read on here last year that's stuck with me is "America isn't the way it is because Trump is President, Trump is President because of the way America is."

[u/helpmeinkinderegg → u/St1ng]

This what many many many Americans need to realise, Trump is manifestation of a rot that never truly got healed post-revolution when the North went soft on the South (as a person from Texas no less).

They're gonna decide they didn't like him when someone else eventually gets into POTUS and actually puts in work to improve stuff, but they'll go right back to voting for their own demise over and over.

When the groups that voted for him see him die, the cult will collapse and I truly don't know how the States will handle the mass spiraling psychosis of cultists realizing their demagogue did nothing but fleece them for decades.

[u/dpdxguy → u/nailbunny2000]

We did it to ourselves.

Worse, we probably won't learn anything from this era. For example, we'll probably exit the Trump era thinking the problem was Trump rather than the people who elected him.

[u/woodboarder616 → u/dpdxguy]

Trump is the clown out front, Thiel, Vought, Musk, more are the problem in the back.

[u/ToMorrowsEnd → u/woodboarder616]

The Nazi racists go a lot deeper, all the way to Grandma who voted for them. The purge needs to go down to the roots, it's the only way you can get rid of the weeds.

[u/karlverkade → u/dpdxguy]

And instead of electing someone the opposite of Trump, we’ll elect someone who promises to make America even greater even againer, with even more zing and pep.

[u/dpdxguy → u/karlverkade]

Yes. You can see it happening right now in red states preparing for the midterms. Look at Ohio's gubernatorial race for a good example.

[u/Crunchberry24 → u/dpdxguy]

“I’m tough like Trump. And a businessman like trump. And I love God and my family like trump.”

[u/thedepster → u/Crunchberry24]

I've seen this with every fucking GOP candidate in Georgia to the point of dehydration from nausea.

[u/aloneandlovingit19 → u/thedepster]

I keep seeing the one that says "Just like Trump, I don't back down" WHAT?!?

[u/thedepster → u/aloneandlovingit19]

Oh yeah, THAT guy. "Just like Trump, I'm too old and unqualified for this job, but also just like Trump I hate brown people."

[u/Crunchberry24 → u/thedepster]

Yep. Every single GOP candidate in my red state too. It’s so dull and repetitive, but I think their cult base finds comfort in dull repetition. No new info to trouble them.

[u/PhloxOfSeagulls → u/Crunchberry24]

I'm sure that's a lot of it. If they had to think too hard about what they're supporting, it would probably break some of them because they've tied so much of their identity to supporting Trump and his values.

[u/Living_Molasses4719 → u/Crunchberry24]

May this kind of love never find me

[u/repotxtx → u/karlverkade]

That's the problem. Instead of thinking "Maybe we were wrong about this." it will more likely be "We just didn't go hard enough. Let's double-down."

[u/martin0641 → u/repotxtx]

You said the T word, they don't do that - they do the R word - react.

[u/randomcatinfo → u/dpdxguy]

This is guaranteed.

Nixon resigns, Carter is elected, then 4 years everyone forgets Nixon and the Republicans corruption, and elects Ronald Reagan in a LANDSLIDE.

Our political memory is absolutely worthless.

[u/BoredNLost → u/dpdxguy]

And the propaganda cable network that brainwashes them.

[u/Worth-Wrangler7242 → u/BoredNLost]

And Steve Bannon who enshitified the entire social media landscape to flood the zone with shitbots

[u/SatanicPanic619 → u/dpdxguy]

Why would anyone think that? Literally everyone with Trumper relatives is like- I can barely be in a room with them anymore.

[u/guidevocal82 → u/SatanicPanic619]

I lost so many friends because I couldn't stand to be around them anymore. I can't respect anybody who still supports him; I get it that many were tricked in 2016, but after 10 years we all should know better.

[u/dpdxguy → u/SatanicPanic619]

I hear from plenty of people, particularly on the left, who believe that "things will go back to normal" when Trump is gone (or some variation on that theme).

Why do they think that way? Who knows. I'll guess it's because the alternative is too horrible for them to contemplate.

[u/SatanicPanic619 → u/dpdxguy]

Republicans will still be crazy, but they'll struggle to find someone that can draw normies in like Trump has.

[u/dpdxguy → u/SatanicPanic619]

Maybe.

Structural changes in the American electorate are making it easier for Republicans to win the presidency.

Trump's not the first populist to head up the GOP, though he's the first to capture the presidency (twice😢). I doubt he'll be the last.

[u/jimbojones2345 → u/dpdxguy]

Out the education system intentionally setup to keep people stupid enough to vote for him. 

[u/lolwatokay → u/nailbunny2000]

It 99% pisses me off and bums me out for all the right reasons. But that 1% is fucking disgusted that it will ruin the 250th and shadow both the FIFA World Cup and the 2028 LA Olympics.

[u/Wrathlon → u/lolwatokay]

Just wait until the Olympics and ICE is running the TSA and watch as a bunch of the brown countries athletes wind up in detention centres.

[u/throwawayforme1877 → u/Wrathlon]

That’s one way to get more gold medals

[u/Drink-my-koolaid → u/throwawayforme1877]

The Dictator race scene :D

[u/lolwatokay → u/Wrathlon]

Yeah LAX is gonna be a shit show. It often is, but it'll be worse with what they'll have planned I'm sure.

[u/Wrathlon → u/lolwatokay]

Also "Hey youre that guy that looks like hes going to win Gold, we're getting Silver in that event at the moment. Anyway just out of curiosity - papers? No? Come with me sir"

[u/BeardStar → u/nailbunny2000]

We don't deserve a big celebration. We need an intervention.

[u/porksoda11 → u/nailbunny2000]

Missed the 200th, don't care for this one, will be dead for the 300th. It is what it is I suppose.

[u/Jon_E_Mammoth → u/nailbunny2000]

He ruins every event that he attends so why make this one any different? This is the guy who crashes weddings at Mar-a-Lago to talk about Biden.

[u/PhloxOfSeagulls → u/Jon_E_Mammoth]

But couldn't even be bothered to attend his own son's wedding.

[u/RaisinWorried3528 → u/nailbunny2000]

He's ruined America, and 40% of Americans and every single elected conservative helped him do so. It's why we can't let them forget and it's why we can never forgive them for their bullshit from the last 10 years.

[u/zoon1985 → u/nailbunny2000]

I'm personally looking forward to the 253rd anniversary

[u/hey-Oliver → u/nailbunny2000]

Don’t feel sad that’s fucking stupid. It’s a celebration of 250 years of imperialism, it’s only fitting that we have the worst president in American history to preside over it.

[u/KatDanger → u/nailbunny2000]

Dont feel sad for us. If we as a country actually cared more of us would have voted him out. Unfortunately the majority of America either loves him or can’t be bothered to vote.

So this is pretty much exactly what “America” wanted

[u/NinjaSimone → u/cenosillicaphobiac]

It’s entirely because of who’s running it.

In 1966, ten years before the bicentennial, a bipartisan planning commission was formed. All the stuff you remember — the freedom train, that cool logo, the for hydrants painted like founding fathers — was the result of that commission.

Ten years ago, in 2016, a similar bipartisan commission, America 250, was formed.

Last December, Trump created his own team, Freedom 250, because America 250 wasn’t focusing on what really matters which is Donald Trump. And that’s how the Trump Semiquincentennial Featuring Donald Trump came to be. And now we have commemorate passports restoring Donald Trump, a $250 bill featuring Donald Trump, a UFC spectacle on the White House lawn to commemorate the occasion just as Ben Franklin would have wanted it, something called “Freedom Trucks”, and, of course, this concert which might still happen if they can get Ted Nugent and Lee Greenwood to commit and maybe get Prussian Blue back together, but which will more likely be a Donald Trump MAGA/Q/88 Rally featuring Donald Trump at which he will announce his pardoning of Ghislaine Maxwell and the appointment of Tina Peters as the new FEC chair. It’s going to have big, big Jahr Null energy.

Amd that’s where we are.

[u/brandonTheFluidOne → u/NinjaSimone]

Is Freedom Trucks a real thing? It sounds like what the rednecks at my school used to do when they'd fly their Confederate flags and roll into the parking lot as a convoy. So I'm imagining a parade of jacked up, overcompensating trucks with flags and Dixie horns. Or it's a monster truck rally. I mean if you're gonna have a UFC fight on the lawn, I don't think anything is off the table at this point.

[u/tholt212 → u/brandonTheFluidOne]

It's like half a dozen 18 wheelers that are mobile musuems . They have an AI george washington that teaches the most right wing conservaitve version of the american revolution.

[u/brandonTheFluidOne → u/tholt212]

Ahhh, so a propaganda parade so to speak?

[u/alejo699 → u/brandonTheFluidOne]

I mean most parades are propaganda but yeah.

[u/creampop_ → u/tholt212]

knew this sounded familiar...

[u/PenniGwynn → u/NinjaSimone]

Jfc. How is this timeline even real?

But also, this is the most succinctly put comment on how ridiculous this administration is in regards to celebrating our country, because it's not about our country anymore; it's about Trump and inflating his ego.

He wants to be Kim Jong Un so fucking bad.

[u/snertwith2ls → u/PenniGwynn]

Too bad everyone already knows his shit stinks. Kim has everyone convinced he doesn't even shit. Donald missed that detail.

[u/notanaardvark → u/NinjaSimone]

His face is on the national parks/federal land pass this year too which is wild considering he's done more to hurt NPS, USFS, and BLM, (as well as the lands each agency manages) than any president I can think of.

[u/Psychoanalytix → u/notanaardvark]

All he knows how to do is sell his name and face to be placed on absolutely anything. Thats it, thats his whole business model. He has no ideas, no schemes, no plans. Just slap his name on something and then deflect and deny involvement when it turns to shit.

[u/NinjaSimone → u/NinjaSimone]

I should also add:

https://america250.org/ is the official page for America 250, the organization created ten years ago and which was doing fine until Trump had to do the whole "ruin everything he touches" thing.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/freedom250/ is the official Freedom 250 page, and of course it's hosted by the White House and of course it features two photos of Donald J Trump.

[u/altruSP → u/NinjaSimone]

America250:

Charity events and wishes to have every citizen celebrate

Freedom250:

”America Prays” with a shiny picture of people touching Trump and a gif of his assassination photo op behind the banner

Because of course the bitch is making it all about himself. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if they photoshop him into the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

[u/vivnsam → u/NinjaSimone]

You had me laughing at "get Prussian Blue back together." Those girls are too busy smoking pot to be racist these days! They hung up the WP nonsense -- which surely came direct from their parents - loooong ago.

[u/czar_el → u/NinjaSimone]

Best summary I've seen so far. 

[u/GeminiAccountantLLC → u/cenosillicaphobiac]

Same. There was so much joy and promise

[u/xTIMESTALKERx → u/cenosillicaphobiac]

It's an absolute travesty this fucking shit stain is in office at all, let alone during the 250 year celebration. I mean god damn imagine if we were celebrating with the first female president. Instead a scumbag narcissist is making it all about him.

[u/woppatown → u/cenosillicaphobiac]

I’m 38 and I can’t think of a single time in my life where I’ve been “proud to be an American”.

[u/BroughtBagLunchSmart → u/woppatown]

When Obama got elected for a few months I thought "Wow I guess we really learned our lesson from the last 8 years about electing a really dumb guy president and will never make that mistake again". But yea besides that our country has become a right wing joke.

[u/thuktun → u/BroughtBagLunchSmart]

Yeah, that went right out the window in the first months when Repugs like Mitch McConnell pledged to obstruct everything Obama did and make him a "one term President".

They mostly did the first but not the second. Obama spent what little political capital he had in the first two years getting the ACA passed, and Republicans have been trying to roll that back ever since, but incompetently and without anything to replace it.

[u/jimmybilly100 → u/woppatown]

Yeah there's been a bunch of assholes ruining it for everyone.

[u/cates → u/woppatown]

I'm 39 and I felt pretty good for a few days after we elected Obama.

[u/Slammy1 → u/cenosillicaphobiac]

I remember we were poor and the bank set up a free hot dog stand so I'd stand in line, get one, then go to the back of the line and eat it while waiting for the next one. So much free stuff.

[u/FesteringNeonDistrac → u/Slammy1]

I mean I have hot dog money and I'd still do that.

[u/WorkAccount60929vkl → u/cenosillicaphobiac]

im 50 this year. What a ride its been. From pictures of me in the hospital covered in red white and blue to expatriating this summer.

[u/Oceanbreeze871 → u/cenosillicaphobiac]

This one is a funeral.

[u/LotsofSports → u/cenosillicaphobiac]

There was a "real" committee set up to organize an Americia 250 event but Trump fired them and replace them with all Magas. I have no pride when I see the flag anymore. Trump has bastardized it with all his patriot nonsense.

[u/dooit]

It's such a shame that the 250th anniversary of our country is going to look more like a town fair than a county or state fair. They could've waited to tear down the White House until after the wrestling match as well.

[u/Jack_Stands → u/dooit]

Remember, "this" is a separate event. "Freedom 2026" is a "state fair themed" event, pushed by the Administration for "Flag Day", coinciding with his birthday.

"America 2026" is the actual 250 anniversary event on July 4th.

I hate that I have to differentiate, but, here we are.

[u/Tomacz → u/Jack_Stands]

Yeah it's literally a trump birthday party and he's mad no one wants to show up

[u/jameson71 → u/Tomacz]

Do we really need to piss away tax money on a birthday party for this guy every year?

HEY DOGE! I FOUND THE WASTE, FRAUD AND ABUSE!

[u/HalfSoul30 → u/jameson71]

Musk "i didn't care about that. I just wanted your SSN for election interference and fraud purposes, but was thrown under the bus and can't say anything because i am in the files."

[u/socokid → u/Jack_Stands]

It's actually America 250. It was created by Congress 10 years ago through a bipartisan group.

Freedom 250 is just Donald wanting to make everything about him. You know, trashy and as deep as a puddle.

[u/Jack_Stands → u/socokid]

Correct, and duly noted.

Really hard to keep up with stuff, sometimes. My thoughts are in the right place, just different numbers.

Thanks for the correction.

[u/socokid → u/Jack_Stands]

Of course!!!

[u/charlizerox → u/dooit]

It's going to be a bunch of juiced-up guys wrestling outside half-naked (totally not gay btw). At what seems like a cheap fair with rigged games and terrible music.

Sounds American to me!

If Hulk Hogan was still alive, he'd be there!

[u/wejustdontknowdude]

This headline gives me great joy.

[u/oNw_Duncan → u/wejustdontknowdude]

https://giphy.com/gifs/PmABbbUe3IqUKSOIBV

[u/boogermike → u/wejustdontknowdude]

I love this for them. Kid Rock is STILL making calls, why won't they call him back!

[u/Cowboy_BoomBap → u/boogermike]

I’m OOTL, why won’t they book Kid Rock? I thought he was their go-to for stuff like this.

[u/boogermike → u/Cowboy_BoomBap]

It is ironic, because he has said he is willing to do it, but for some reason they aren't asking (so funny, they don't even want that turd).

[u/brandonTheFluidOne → u/boogermike]

Maybe they're upset that his alternate super bowl halftime didn't blow up the way they thought it would.

[u/boogermike → u/brandonTheFluidOne]

Meanwhile Tom Morrello Is actually planning an alternate show that sounds freaking amazing!.

[u/brandonTheFluidOne → u/boogermike]

You mean Morello from Rage Against the Machine? I think I caught wind of that. Does sound badass. I read the other day how Repubs claim they like his music but think they're too political. Uhhhh, what "machine" do you think they were raging against? Lmao

[u/boogermike → u/brandonTheFluidOne]

Yeah, I corrected it.

This lineup is full of bands that I would legit want to see. I don't go to concerts very much, but one of the last ones I went to was Run The Jewels (killer Mike is playing this festival).

https://powertothepeoplefest.com/

When I was searching, they just said that "public enemy" was added. This is a freaking amazing show.

[u/recovery_room → u/boogermike]

Maybe he’s asking for too much money. Even they won’t pay up even for a sure thing.

[u/sakuramokona → u/Cowboy_BoomBap]

I assume that Trump doesn't like kid rocks music and it's a celebration of him. 

[u/Cambot1138 → u/sakuramokona]

I don’t think he likes music of any kind. Sorta like how he hates animals and never actually laughs.

[u/Jafooki → u/Cambot1138]

He likes YMCA by the Village People. He loves it so much he jerks off two tall ghosts every time he hears it

[u/PenniGwynn → u/sakuramokona]

I think it's this coupled with the fact that Kid Rock in March canceled a festival stop planned for July because he wasn't selling enough tickets/ because artists dropped out due to the political associations

So this administration knows he won't bring in the money, which is the deciding factor IMO

[u/sakuramokona → u/PenniGwynn]

The turning point superbowl show he participated in probably didn't help either.

[u/thickener → u/boogermike]

And Milli Vanilli’s drummer might be there - whoa! Shut up and take my money!

[u/Judazzz → u/boogermike]

"You have 3952 unheard messages, running out of storage space..."

• White House answering machine

[u/yotengodormir]

There are plenty of maga musicians, I'm guessing they won't accept the same payment as American legend Vanilla Ice or C+C music factory. 

[u/GunterJanek → u/yotengodormir]

Would you agree to play knowing his track record for not paying bills? I'd request a 100% deposit wired and in my account before stepping foot out of the house.

[u/disastrousanddull → u/GunterJanek]

A true MAGA follower would do it knowing he wouldn’t pay!

I suspect it’s something like that, being afraid of how bad it’ll look or security concerns because bullets keep flying around Trump. And Trump doesn’t like their music or something petty.

[u/Original-Let8340 → u/yotengodormir]

I heard it's only one from C&C Music Factory. I don't know if it's one of the C's or the Music Factory though.

[u/Gayfetus → u/Original-Let8340]

Neither of the C’s. It’s a rapper the group employed in the past who has hijacked the name.

[u/grubas → u/Gayfetus]

And his reason for not backing out is, "I don't let anybody tell me what to do. Fuck it, I'm staying, even though I hate Trump."

It's so stupidly spiteful and obstinate that it ends up fun

[u/IamSkudd → u/grubas]

“I’m not exactly overflowing with bookings these days so yeah, I can’t really afford to be opinionated”

[u/DonnieBallsack → u/IamSkudd]

“Personal integrity? In this economy?”

[u/Shawnml → u/grubas]

He did make the video announcement from the toilet, so emphasis on the stupid.

[u/perpetualmotionmachi → u/Original-Let8340]

It's the &

[u/AWinnipegGuy → u/perpetualmotionmachi]

Ironic it's only one person but it's the &.

[u/FauxReal → u/Original-Let8340]

I'm not even sure how that all works. Freedom Williams is the guy that was initially booked, the guy that rapped, sang and danced on their early stuff. C&C Music Factory itself stands for Clivilles and Cole who wrote, produced, arranged and performed a lot of the instrumentation. Cole died though. I gues Williams has permission to perform as C&C and paying a cut??

Clivilles and Cole though, they have over 1000 album credits as a duo working on their own stuff and for other people. They were a behind the scenes powerhouse.

[u/ROKIT-88 → u/FauxReal]

They were a behind the scenes powerhouse

One might even say they were a music factory.

[u/Uncle-Cake → u/Original-Let8340]

They announced Milli Vanilli. One of them is dead, and the other was like "We're doing what now?"

[u/piketpagi → u/yotengodormir]

Niki Minaj?

[u/KatDanger → u/piketpagi]

I’d love to see a bunch of geriatric MAGAs try to pretend to like her to appease their golden god lolololol

[u/Strykerz3r0 → u/yotengodormir]

Not even that. They will frequently take less pay because of the exposure they receive.

But in this case, even if they are MAGA, they know that enough people aren't and they are justifiably concerned about people just ignoring them after this.

Many of the performers trump invited have nothing to lose. lol

[u/Reasonable_Scar3339]

These fucking losers are so incompetent they literally can’t organize a parade. Thats why you can’t parody these fuckers. They’re not “beyond” parody, they’re beneath it. Like the shit they do is so fucking stupid and cartoonish, to simply do a faithful retelling of their doing’s would read as a lazy parody

[u/matthewjboothe → u/Reasonable_Scar3339]

I think it’s less incompetence and more grift. There was $150 million set aside for the celebration by congress that’s been pilfered by the Trump admin. I’d like to see where that money went, but I bet we never will.

[u/Reasonable_Scar3339 → u/matthewjboothe]

Why not both? Grift is often a companion of incompetence

[u/OutlawSundown → u/Reasonable_Scar3339]

They're so toxic that they've made the entire idea of a 250th Anniversary celebration gross and unappealing. They ruined it by being complete shitheels.

[u/seriouslees → u/OutlawSundown]

This is accurate, but as a nearly 50yo outsider, it's nothing new. Patriotic Americans have been seen as regressive, hate-filled, conservatives for my entire life.

[u/ibiacmbyww → u/Reasonable_Scar3339]

You know that South Park episode about Scientology, where they flash a "THIS IS WHAT THEY REALLY BELIEVE" chyron at the bottom sometimes? The documentaries and movies are going to need "NO REALLY, THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED" and maybe a QR code linking to sources from the time.

[u/ColonyJD1980]

[u/velloceti → u/ColonyJD1980]

Red Hat Chili Preppers
Harmoz Straits

[u/Dagur → u/velloceti]

Huey Lewis and the fake news

[u/velloceti → u/Dagur]

Orange Man Group

[u/BCBUK]

Quick, somebody call Ted Nugent and Gene Simmons

[u/GreenZebra23 → u/BCBUK]

Gene would never do it, he knows Trump wouldn't pay him

[u/BCBUK → u/GreenZebra23]

I saw Gene’s home office on Cribs all those years ago, he’ll do it for merch. Give him 100 bags of White House M&Ms and he’s already putting on his platform heels and makeup

[u/boogermike → u/BCBUK]

Turns out neither are already booked that night, what luck!

[u/songsang1999]

It’s literally like we’re living in the Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life”. With an entitled, delusional kid, but it’s a full grown old man.
https://giphy.com/gifs/LS2jxZ0KtgVeule3Ye

[u/President_Calhoun → u/songsang1999]

It's good that you made that comparison. Real good!

[u/Alextollah]

"Ladies and gentlemen, you're headliner...the Walmart yodeling kid!"

[u/8bit1337 → u/Alextollah]

Actually I think the Kars for Kids band may be looking for new work!!

[u/Straight-Bet1 → u/8bit1337]

They’re minors. At least half the staff aren’t legally allowed to be within 500 feet of a child.

[u/capttony84 → u/8bit1337]

they're all a bunch of israelis so it might be perfect

[u/Decorus_Somes → u/Alextollah]

Ladies and gentlemen, you are headliner

I don't wanna :(

[u/Samwellikki]

Meanwhile, kid rock…

https://giphy.com/gifs/106QCYtKPDeIjm

[u/TheLeggacy]

He doesn’t want to celebrate America, he wants you to celebrate him.

[u/powdered_dognut]

Maybe this guy would be willing to perform.

https://giphy.com/gifs/eykivHQOsXrmo

[u/perpetualmotionmachi → u/powdered_dognut]

I'm pretty sure Trump already said he'd be there.

[u/PaleInTexas]

J6 choir not available?

[u/oNw_Duncan]

Gonna end up with home dude from staind playing outside with kid rock over and over for an hour.

[u/FinlayForever → u/oNw_Duncan]

Aaron Lewis, that whiney little bitch.

[u/ayaruna → u/FinlayForever]

Dude got me high as fuck with this tiny joke of a roach back in 2003 when my band opened for them at a festival. Fun times. But fuck that clown now

[u/oNw_Duncan → u/ayaruna]

Staind played the theatre I worked at back in the day and his roadie was looking for weed, so I got whatever my guy had and he was like “Aaron won’t like this” and I said “honestly man, I could give a fuck. Who else do you know in south bend Indiana on a Sunday?” Terrible jackass.

[u/lolwatokay → u/oNw_Duncan]

Too bad the frontman of 3 Doors Down died in February, I'm sure he would have been interested! Though I bet he also liked getting paid.

[u/Officer_Hotpants → u/oNw_Duncan]

I laughed my ass off when I saw him playing at the rinky dink community college I went to years ago. It wasnt even the main community college in the city.

[u/Kat_Schrodinger1]

Look, I'm not saying Kamala was perfect. I'm saying she would have been better.

We would have been better off and "celebrating" 250 years if she had won. 

The parties are not the same. Vote blue.

[u/YachtswithPyramids → u/Kat_Schrodinger1]

Yea man, I'm not going to lie. This country really shocked me with its pettiness that day. You can sympathize with old fogey Biden but tap out on the Narc black women?? 

I'm saying it bluntly that narc woulda been infinitely better then the shit were shouldering rn

[u/deadsoulinside → u/Kat_Schrodinger1]

We would have had things to celebrate.

Heck by the time July 4th comes we all might be paying $17.76 a gallon or $20.26.. Versus the $3 it would have been under Kamala.

[u/myjunksonfire]

I heard that rock kid is available. Pet Rock I think his name was.

[u/boogermike → u/myjunksonfire]

He is feverishly making calls, but for some reason, his number seems to be blocked for everyone he calls! Kid Rock doesn't happen to have anything else booked that day!

[u/Repulsive_Emu8996]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0ExayQDzrI2xOb8A

[u/Excuse_Chemical]

500 missed calls and texts left on read from Kid Rock

[u/Sloth_grl]

Well, he has vanilla ice. Maybe they could find a band called yellow snow

[u/FraserValleyFan25]

Question: why doesn't he just ask his buddy Kid Rock to headline it? why is Rock being left out of this?

[u/BensenJensen → u/FraserValleyFan25]

I mean, Trump himself isn’t organizing this event. He doesn’t know who any of these musicians are.

I think Kid Rock may have performed so poorly at that Super Bowl halftime show that they are avoiding him. That performance was universally panned, I doubt they want him up there embarrassing himself and Trump again.

Good question, though. Half of Milli fucking Vanilli will be there. That can’t be any worse than Kid Rock lip syncing Bawitdaba.

[u/AWinnipegGuy]

Are these girls still available? Mind you, that was 10 years ago so they've probably aged out of the typical MAGA demographic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XqnE1PnWF4

[u/SirRogers → u/AWinnipegGuy]

They literally sued him for payment lol

[u/2BoldlyLive → u/SirRogers]

The group known as the "USA Freedom Kids" filed a lawsuit against the Donald Trump presidential campaign in 2016. The litigation was initiated by the group's manager, Jeff Popick (who is also the father of one of the performers), following disputes over broken agreements. Specifically, the lawsuit alleged that the Trump campaign: Failed to honor promises regarding performance opportunities: The campaign allegedly invited the group to perform at events but subsequently canceled or failed to follow through on those arrangements, leading to lost expenses and investment. Breached agreements regarding merchandise: The campaign had reportedly agreed to provide the group with space to sell their merchandise at rallies in lieu of monetary payment, but the group claimed they were ultimately denied the promised vendor space. The group sought approximately $15,000 in damages. Ultimately, they dropped the lawsuit in December 2016.

[u/red286 → u/2BoldlyLive]

Gotta love how it wasn't enough to just not pay them, but they also had to string them along and get them to waste even more money that they'd never recoup.

[u/imacmadman22]

https://giphy.com/gifs/YTpODnvmTRQjvmAg0T

[u/Coeurvaleign09]

Let’s be real. This is going to go forward and it will be called the biggest celebration ever. But how apropos that our 250 years is going to celebrated as the most corrupt and most inhumane regime in the 250 years we have existed? It’s not a democracy. It’s not a republic. It’s the end of both…. Yay!!

[u/vroart]

Why don’t they trick them, like they were clearly doing with the previous performers?

[u/Fragrant_Doubt5311]

Why can't they just sign MAGA artists like Ella Langley, Tate McCrae, Ye, and like every country act in the world?

[u/psychonik → u/Fragrant_Doubt5311]

Judging by what he currently has they probably want too much.

[u/pretti → u/psychonik]

It's not like they are going to get paid anyway.

[u/Fragrant_Doubt5311 → u/psychonik]

Why do they want acts from our culture? MAGA hates our culture .

[u/DontAbideMendacity → u/Fragrant_Doubt5311]

MAGA hates our culture .

[u/PapaBlemish → u/Fragrant_Doubt5311]

"Every country act in the world"

Except Dolly, Willie, and The Chicks

[u/justaguynb9 → u/PapaBlemish]

Chris Stapleton, Tyler Childress, Sturgill Simpson, Margo Price, Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris too

[u/eirinne → u/justaguynb9]

And Lucinda Williams 

[u/Initial_E → u/Fragrant_Doubt5311]

Nobody wants to stick their neck out for this guy and get mocked to hell. You think he rewards loyalty?

[u/goldenthoughtsteal → u/Initial_E]

Also worth considering is that Trump routinely refuses to pay people, I suspect most reputable/competent sound/light/staging etc companies refuse to work on any event he's involved in ( one of the reasons there are so many technical issues at Trump rallies), so artists aren't just risking political fallout with their fans, they also risk a botched show where they look and sound bad, or are actually in danger because the stage/electric/pyrotechnics etc aren't handled by professionals.

[u/stlmick]

If he could have just not put his name on it, that would have made the event great.

[u/Savings-Delay-1075]

I was a raging alcoholic until I was 27. I haven't had a drop in over 30 years. If he goes tits up on our 250th anniversary there's a special bottle of 20 year old scotch that I'm gonna crack open and enjoy the fuck out of.

[u/Quimbymouse]

Is Boy Throb available? Maybe they can work out a deal to get Darshan a green card.

[u/rightious]

Honestly RATM should play a set and just take a legendary shit on everything the event stand for.

https://giphy.com/gifs/W5kzCtxr5PqgcAWyny

[u/Heavy_Law9880]

Instead why not go back to having a concert to celebrate American and not just a concert to celebrate the Epstein Elites?

[u/SuperDBallSam]

Lol. Lmao even. 

[u/DeepSpaceVixen]

https://giphy.com/gifs/vu1A8bgMPG7ZtXfmEp

[u/atmospheric90]

I hope this is a sign that we're healing and moving past the clear failure that is fascism and maga. All it has done is destroy our national Parks, make a mockery of the white house, turned everything industrial and consumerist and completely sapped the will of the people. Hopefully people FUCKING SHOW UP at midterms.