The president has claimed the fair is “packed with happy people” but footage from the National Mall tells a different story
CNN correspondent Kaitlan Collins trolled President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair by showing just how few people showed up to the week-long event.
Standing on the National Mall Thursday among a sparse crowd, Collins said “for a president who often fixates on crowd size, so far the fair on Washington’s National Mall hasn’t exactly lived up to the hype.”
The fair was intended to showcase goods and culture across America’s 50 states. However, when Trump has been accused of ‘hijacking’ events around America’s 250th birthday to make them about himself. The fair was opened with sparse booths and limited attractions. This, combined with D.C.’s ongoing heatwave, has resulted in minimal crowds attending and a lot of mockery on social media.
Reality is not trolling.
Dump is going to froth his diapers in rage and try to get her fired for this
Didn’t Ellison recently acquire CNN? If so she’ll very likely get fired and blackballed by all the right-wing propaganda outlets
Is it really trolling to make factual statements?
Journalism == trolling. Nobody told you?
Journalism is trolling and facts are liberal spin.
Her reporting isn’t trolling.
The Independent running the article after the faire was closed for heat today and therefore no one is there, is next level trolling and im here for it.
You’re right, it’s terrorism. Or will be declared as such soon enough, mark my words. The days of free speech in the U.S. are numbered.
I think they’re back to calling it communism now.
My bosses at work who are 60+ all remember how great the 200th was. Everyone voted trump and everyone is disappointed beyond belief at how bad this 250th is.
Ain’t nobody want to go to a pedophile fair.
Why did they decide on calling it a “State Fair” anyway? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to call it The National Fair?
First comment on the article, “that’s not ‘trolling’ - that’s reporting”
Damn straight.
Will there be more visitors than degrees Fahrenheit at Trumps speech today?
I really wanted to watch the video but maybe because I’m on moving, that site is a shit show. The ads interrupt the video every few seconds.
And, another video of the speaker series shows former Bachelor contestant turned Evangelical preacher, Madi Prewitt Trout, speaking to a near-empty audience.
Geez you’d think that’d have been a doorbuster.
I’m a simple man. I see Kaitlan Collins, I click.
If you check out the AP live feed of the national Mall today on the actual 4th of July. It is still empty as all fuck. LoL 😂
Kaitlan is a national treasure.
