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Freedom 250 concert withdrawals prompt Trump to call for cancellation

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President Donald Trump urged cancellation of the Freedom 250 concert series after a wave of headline acts pulled out, including King Louie and the 1-800-Kars 4 Kids band. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he was out of the loop about any MAGA-branded replacement and brushed off questions about planning. The withdrawals and the president's call to cancel leave the campaign scrambling for a fallback event and raise questions about event management and political optics ahead of the fall schedule.

Mrs. Betty Bowers
@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Trapp Family has withdrawn from Donald Trump's Freedom 250 concert, citing previous unpleasant experiences with fascists.

359948d ago
Matt O’Rourke 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪 🇪🇺38

Seeing Trump humiliated is one of the few of my favourite things

Conte Mosca31

so long, farewell, auf wiedersehn, goodbye, hasta la vista baby

Richard30

Yes, but Trump is trying to book this guy to replace them.

Damian Lynch 🟧 🇦🇺 Rebellion is Mandatory during times of Tyranny19

The Archie’s withdrew as well

Brewmeister Juan McKenzie Bodley, Jr.13

"🎶So long, farewell, get bent you fat dumbass🎶" Doesn't have quite the same ring to it

Unknown Person13

He actually wants to cancel it now. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Jane Austen's Political Tweets12

The Chuck E Cheese Animatronic Band, similarly has withdrawn.....

carterkr.bsky.social11

Lorenzo St. DuBuois has withdrawn from the Freedom 250 concert.

‪𝒩𝑜𝓇𝓂𝒶 𝒫11

Isn't it Von Trapp? 🤣

Yvonne10

GOLDEN POST OF THE DAY!

“Matter of Fact”8

Been to the Trapp Family home in Vermont, nothing but Genuine people, solid principles with Integrity and values, respecting everyone for who they are, and the location is Awesome.

Watching frogs boil6

German marching band has withdrawn from Donald Trump's Freedom 250 concert, apologizing to the Von Trapp family for all the harm done in the process. Danke sehr for your attention to this matter.

Peter Glover5

“Sixteen Going on Seventeen” cuts a little too close for Trump though.

Bernd Neromiks4

Not to be confused with:

SpellSword1774

The President also didn't react well to their chosen song "Seventy-Nine Going on Eighty"

Marooned with this whiteboard.4

🎶 "A Don a fear, a Pedofile dreer.. He's a drop of golden doo.."

Tammy E 🦋3

Best one so far! 👏👏

bkshep.bsky.social2

The Hill will not be alive with the sound of music

Liquid worm poop packed in a plastic bottle who is a year older2

Has anyone heard from Josie and the Pussycats?

cantankerous55.bsky.social2

"So long, farewell to you and you and you!"

Freya2

Impeccable picture choice, perfect satire. 👏

Formerly known as Truly S.2

If compelled to perform, however, they would have sung this audience favorite: youtu.be/jV9mEkvJAbE?...

Cyn2

Adieu adieu to you and you and you.

Princess TrundleBumps2

The Banana Splits have a full schedule of love, laughs and fun. Tra-La-La, La-La-La-La............. They can't make donny's party either.

Ashland Forest Dweller2

Speaking of sweet acts, this one will definitely not perform at Trump's Freedom 250 "event". . .

Justin Mc Something2

I have it on good authority that officials are scouring all of the episodes of the Gong Show to book talent for the Two Fiddy all star show.

Jerked Around2

Perhaps it's for the best that the last of the originals died in 2014, just in time to avoid Trumpism. One later addition, Johannes von Trapp, is still kicking. He doesn't seem to have anything to say about politics though - the BBC did a very anodyne piece on him this year.

Verbamour2

I heard they weren't willing to perform, "I am fifteen going on forty-seven..."

⭕nly Human2

Lara Trump won’t back down…🤣

Miles Sr and Grey2

Desperate to get the January 6th Choir back together. Call the proud boys, and offer cash!!!

prairielife.bsky.social2

Good one. 😂 I watched "The Blues Brothers" a few weeks ago. Had forgotten about the tribute scene to The Sound of Music. Also the head of the Illinois Nazis & the scene where he's painting a bald eagle statue with gold paint! Who would have believed that movie was a warning for current times?!

Chrysostom2

And it was past their bedtime.

ThreadThoughtsKindness2

As they should ... principles and all. You guys are killing me with these! 🤣🤣🤣

Dean Obeidallah
@deanobeidallah.bsky.social

‘Cancel It’: Trump Calls to Scrap ‘Freedom 250’ Concert because artists are all backing out. When the going gets tough, Trump just quits. Biggest loser ever as "President."

42048d ago
Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social

Trump may cancel the Freedom 250 concerts now no one wants to play and replace them with him talking bullshit. “The fact is that I am, according to many, ⁠the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World” who gets “much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime” and “does so without a guitar.”

33649d ago
Mark Chadbourn120

In his own deranged words:

24,805 words42

I was saying to my wife today that the fact we aren’t being slammed with ads from companies trying to associate with the 250th suggests a lot of CEOs realized they wouldn’t want to be tied at the hip to Trump.

Mopolis10

A narcissistic person will never know that he's being canceled. Sad.

Pere Jes7

It's sad when someone lives under such self delusion. Increasingly, DJT resembles one of those tragic film characters detached from the real world like Gloria Swanson played in "Sunset Boulevard." On the other hand, there's that nagging issue of his access to our nuclear warheads.

Renee Babcock6

If he tries to do the pelvic thrust I'm outta here.

Ianrobo6

if it was Obama the biggest names possible would have been lining up !!

Martin Robertson4

The worlds biggest psychopath. He believes he is a god, Elvis and the wittiest man who ever lived. He demands worship.

Mona4

The crowd will be cheering as he dances to a catchy song, sung by no other than his daughter in law…

Innocent🕷Abroad4

Who WOULDN’T want to stand in 90-degree, 80% humidity weather to watch an 80-year-old man do a mime of wanking two other men slowly?

BrianinFrance4

The fact is that Trump is, according to many, ⁠the Number One enemy anywhere in the World.

K a s s i e D e e4

I guess Kid Rock and Ted Nugent were busy?

Mary Teresa4

Trump Headlining ~ The Pull-Out Tour: What Daddy Should Have Done

OldOhMan3

His name goes off the Kennedy Center and he says he doesn't want anything to do with it anyway. Acts pull out of his birthday party/UFC event and he says he didn't want overpaid, B-listers anyway. There's a pattern.

Kah-Turak-Arfai3

So it’s down to Kid Rock and The Village Person again?

Colette3

According to many voices in my head, I am the number one.

NM Anderson3

What a pathetic human being!!!! And I’m not ONLY referring to the demented narcissist, but even more importantly to the demented narcissistic cult that still support him!!!

Brian 323

Literally dozens of people are heartbroken at the artists dropping off the bill...

Mean Bean Machine3

I’m sure he could still get hologram Ozzy and hologram KISS.

Prior_Industry2

Trump + Big Mac + Toilet 🤔

John S2

Trump will play his greatest hits! •Obama spied on me. •I'm a stable genius •I won 2020 •The movie star is my wife •This is as good as it gets •The winning song √Hold my beer •Everybody loves me •You can punch that guy (I'll pay for your lawyer) •Daddy never hugged me And many more!

datdemlady.bsky.social2

All you need to know about Trump’s behavior and his hands.

Fredrick Grott2

he no longer is healthy enough to stay awake during one his rallies...so good luck with that...

Phil Norris2

As soon as he started making it all about him, his birthday, instead of Americas 250th birthday it started to fall apart. Hopefully the dismal collapse of Freedom250, being ordered he can't stick his name on the Kennedy Centre & the debacle that is his Iran war will give him an aneurism.

Fail We May… Sail We Must!2

Can you imagine being his press officer 🙈

Nancy Levine Stearns
@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

🧵 NEW WaPo: Trump to headline at Freedom 250 Great American State Fair after music acts cancel. Freedom 250 spokesperson said yesterday that Trump's Freedom 250 is 'inherently nonpolitical.' So Trump will perform at his 'inherently nonpolitical' Freedom 250 event. wapo.st/3PwQEyL

25349d ago
Nancy Levine Stearns49

Freedom 250 spokesperson said yesterday the project is 'inherently nonpolitical.' Trump will headline at Freedom 250 Great American State Fair on the National Mall after musical performers slated for the event canceled, citing the event’s associations with him. www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...

groundloop.bsky.social18

Line-up: Trump (Construction Worker) Hegseth (GI) Patel (Indian) Hegseth (Leatherman) Mullin (Cop) Hegseth (Cowboy)

James Wyman12

Two hours of "YMCA" and this.

BeaglesResist❌👑We Are Not Moving on from the trumpstein Files10

Nothing says "Happy Birthday USA!" like two hours of trump bleating and whining his grievances punctuated with recycled lies and deranged old-man braggadocio and gaslighting, in the form of a snuffling slurred indecipherable dementia-fueled rant bathed in a miasma of flop sweat and unchanged diaper.

debd53.bsky.social6

How much will he charge us for performing?

Mr.Eddie89765

Great... A two hour stream of him spewing his bullshit, followed by blaring YMCA and his patented double jerkoff move What a way to celebrate the country's 250th...

Kimberly from Cali3

Trump is going to perform what, exactly? He's a horrible dancer and I don't think he plays any musical instruments. Will he try to sing? 😆 🤣 😂

amelbil.bsky.social2

Who files the first lawsuit contesting public funding for a clearly political event??

hexnology.bsky.social2

Is he going to sing and dance YMCA

Frau Sherri 🐈‍⬛ 🇩🇪 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇪🇸2

Trump’s self-glorification on TS: …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…

Morgan J Freeman
@mjfree.bsky.social

Donald Trump Calls For Freedom 250 Concert To Be Canceled & Replaced By MAGA Rally Following Exodus Of Scheduled Performers Thoughts?

19148d ago
Kiki 🌊🌊30

I strongly oppose the use of tax dollars for a campaign rally. We should file a lawsuit to halt this idea. He should use his own money, which he has stolen though his corruption from the American people.

cor10ee.bsky.social19

Let’s just cancel Donald tRump’s KKKorrupt administration in its entirety. May Nuremberg 2.0 trials be speedy!

EARNED MY SPURS: "UNDERSTANDABLE CASE OF THE YIPS" 🐎12

Yeah, I think he's a fucking loser

JoeyTheHepcat10

Didn’t he already have this rally on a certain day in January several years ago?

Critical Thinker9

No Kings gatherings wherever a 250 event is / was being held - because after 250 years a celebration of NO KING seems; ironically appropriate Include Native Americans, too. After all immigrants took their land, their food, their lives and we must embrace the true American not push away

🍁 Christine 🍁8

He was always going to be speaking at the event. Now it will just be longer, full of more lies and even more incoherent rambling. I'd rather push two forks into my ears.

Jeff8

He should cancel it. He should admit he lost his war against Iran. He should resign from office.

Jim Murphy7

No surprise. Maybe he'll have a heart attack during his 90 minute wingeing and whining diatribe. Then we would really have something to celebrate!

Connie6

It was ALWAYS going to be all about him. Anyone who thought different should be in the same memory care ward he should be in.

MovieEv3

trump just confirmed it was always going to be a maga rally

Barb Besteni3

Let's see how many show up to his rally. The White House is prepping AI tools as I write this, to make sure the crowd is the biggest ever for your favorite president, ME! Is it November yet?

Lady Tina Murphy3

It would be good if people stopped giving that grotesque, mentally deranged, child rapist credibility by not engaging with every stupid utterance.

Stoley3

A maga pedo party. Got it.

Uncle Don2

Now if we can just have a nice tropical storm. Nothing destructive, just several days of deluge.

Clifford2

I bet you there's going to be another "assassination" attempt

PinkberryGA12

😂 Somebody call the www waaaambulace!

Jarsai Var2

It’s what it was from the beginning

RuthG562

Hmmm. Probably will be very sparsely attended. Lots of gas needed for some of them to even get there. Remember the military parade where a horse shit in front of the First Grifters?

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