Myles Parks

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Is America's 250th birthday celebration too partisan? · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

So many years ago, actually, Congress created the America 250 Commission, which was supposed to be bipartisan and would plan celebrations of America's semi-quincentennial all over the country.

And then President Trump was elected and he didn't like what they were doing, didn't think it was good enough, wanted to do his own thing.

And so he bigfooted and created Freedom 250, which actually pulled some of the funding and has been putting on.

These very big events, including the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House and something called the Great American State Fair on the National Mall.

That is ongoing right now.

It has been plagued by all kinds of problems, including power outages.

The weather is very hot.

Not a lot of people are showing up.

And immediately when it was announced that there would be a concert series attached to it, artists started pulling out.

No sooner were their names announced saying they didn't realize that this was actually a partisan thing that was associated with Trump.

And the only artist that really stuck it out was Vanilla Ice, who was supposed to perform last Friday, and then his concert was canceled because of inclement weather.

This whole thing has turned into sort of a partisan Rorschach test where...

Either you look at, say, the Great American State Fair and say, this is an awesome idea, or you look at it and say, oh, my gosh, this is partisan.

This is a Potemkin village that is lightly attended and everything is terrible.

And Trump put his face all over it.

Right.

And to add to that, it's not as if America 250 disappeared.

America 250 is still having events.

What has happened is that President Trump and Freedom 250 have most definitely, as Tam put it, big footed.

everything in the Washington, D.C.

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