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Jennifer
Like everything Donald Trump touches, the great American State Fair is an absolute disaster. It is dead on arrival. And here to talk about it with me today are Kylie and Ryan. Kylie is Typhoid Mary and she has gotten everybody in the I had it podcast studio sick to death. So Jennifer is in bed and Kylie and Ryan can barely talk. But we're here, we're doing it. And so we want to show you shots of this disastrous American State Fair.
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Kylie
Okay, here is the first clip.
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Jennifer
No one is there, if you're listening.
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Ryan
All right, there we go.
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Jennifer
How many people would you say are there?
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Kylie
There's maybe seven people on here.
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Jennifer
Seven. Yeah. And I kept seeing on Twitter, like, the booths are empty, the ice cream is melty. Here's the deal. You know, Donald Trump is a cancer on the ass of America. When the American State Fair has to be canceled twice and Vanilla Ice won't reschedule, that's how bad it is. Ice, ice, baby.
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Ryan
And not only Vanilla Ice, but Bret Michaels canceled. And famously, Bret Michaels won the Celebrity Apprentice. Their buddies. So, you know, that's just something. What I would say about this is, apologies, listener, that you have to listen to this vocal fry. I lived in D.C. for six years. On any other summer day, the National Mall would be packed right now with people, you know, hanging out, throwing frisbees just doing things that you do on a summer day. And instead, Donald Trump has completely desecrated one of the best parts of D.C. and replace it with this. I mean, we'll show more of the videos, but this, it's. It's just an absolute joke.
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Jennifer
So you're saying it's a joke.
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Kylie
It's emptier than usual.
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Ryan
It is way emptier than usual. Like, it's. Anyone who lives in D.C. could vouch for me on that.
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Kylie
I actually have a quote in front of me from the Washington Post. They described the crowd as thinly covering an area about the length of the National Museum of American History, smaller than some outdoor movie screenings.
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Jennifer
I love this so much for him, but we can always count on Fox to fluff this man. So they're trying to, you know, act like it's so great. So play us the clip from Fox.
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Ryan
Kylie, the pictures really don't tell the full of the full story because if
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Jennifer
you look behind us, you see, okay,
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Ryan
there are a couple hundred people back there.
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Jennifer
But the truth is on your way
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Progressive Insurance Announcer
over here and you're in this.
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Jennifer
Okay, stop. You're in a walk for everybody that's watching. You can see there's nobody. It's all green. White booths, all green. If that is a hundred people, I am Miss America. I mean, that just simply is a big fat lie. Nobody wants to come to this because people are starting to understand. Fascism sucks. And we know how bad it sucks. We know Donald Trump was watching Fox News knowing it sucked because here's his lie. Social. 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? Ask yourself this question. Do you think that Obama. Now that's a new one. Obama or Sleepy Joe could have done it? The answer is no. You know why the answer is no? Because if Obama or Biden had done a fair to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America, it would be packed. It would be wall to wall. It would be as at the opening of Obama's new library. It would be real. Live A list stars Stevie Wonder, Jennifer Hudson. You two comment like all of these people. Like, I just can't tell you how bad it is when Vanilla Ice and Bret Michaels cancel on you that that's embarrassing. Like, I'm embarrassed for him, but here he is. It's packed. That's how we know it's not packed. And then here is just my favorite story coming out of the weekend. Other Than it was zero attendance. No attendance. My favorite story was, but of course, a MAGA supporter who was playing Uncle Sam. On stilts, no less. Kylie, tell us what he got caught doing at the National Mall.
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Kylie
Oh, he got accused of masturbating at the Great American State Fair, which is shocking thing I've ever heard.
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Jennifer
And what's so funny about it is the Daily Mail goes, MAGA fan accused of masturbating at Donald Trump's Great American State Fair in latest setback for embattled event. So even across the pond, they know that this is an absolute disaster. Was anybody shocked that a Magnum person was beating off at Trump's event?
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Kylie
And look at the. The tweet says, this is from Shelby. She says, so the Great American State fair lasted approximately 17 minutes before a guy got caught masturbating. And I just. I bet he's not the only one. He was just the only one that got caught.
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Jennifer
Absolutely. He's not the only one. He's the only one that got caught. And something else that we saw at the Great American State Fair that nobody went to and Uncle Sam was masturbating at was we got to see a mockup of the latest and greatest of the many despicable things that Trump is doing with taxpayer money that are G and ugly. That arch. Here we go. I mean, come on, come on.
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Kylie
It looks like it's made out of cardboard and paper.
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Ryan
No, it's. So actually, I saw a video. It is paper. Pieces of paper stapled onto it and then painted over. So it's literally white trash. Like, that is literally what this arch mockup is made out of. I just want to go back to the Fox News coverage of it. They were running with this all weekend, you know, as you would expect them to do, running cover for. For Trump. And that shot that we showed where, you know, they were saying, oh, it's misleading how many people it looks like in the background. That was the most amount of people from all of the clips that I saw of the Fox coverage all weekend. And there was another segment where Peter Doocy was. He was interviewing Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, and they were testing out the different foods, all of the, you know, the all American cuisine that was made available at the fair. It was a hot dog and then a small cheese pizza. It's just, it's.
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Kylie
It.
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Jennifer
The.
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Ryan
It goes back to something that Jen talks about a lot, that these people are so afraid to celebrate the multiculturalism of America, because what makes America so great, you know, especially living in New York, I can get Any type of food I want, at any time I want, and that's the best food that there is. And, you know, so they're out there celebrating the fact that we can make a hot dog and a cheese pizza. It's. I mean, the jokes write themselves.
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Jennifer
Yeah, they do. That's why this year, I haven't thought, since Trump has been back in office, I have not enjoyed Saturday Night Live like I usually do, because what's real is more parody than what they do on Saturday Night Live. And when you talk about all this stuff, it's the money. The money that is being spent on all. All this, like, $60 million from national parks has been used for this. And then you talk about, you know, he said he. You know, he refitted one of the walkways in the White House. He made it like marble. And he. They asked him when he did it, who's going to pay for this?
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Kylie
Me.
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Jennifer
My money. Well, guess what. Almost a million dollars of taxpayer money.
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Ryan
Yeah.
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Jennifer
None of this. The ballroom. Oh, it's going to be donors now. He wants a billion dollars. People cannot afford gas. They cannot. I bought groc this weekend, and I about down both legs. They were so expensive. It's unbelievable what the American people are having to do while he's running around. And I've heard that the hot dogs are like 25 bucks at this fair.
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Kylie
The food was extremely expensive.
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Ryan
Well. And the power went out at all of the food stations. There was an ice cream station. All the ice cream melted.
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Kylie
I read a lot of the booths didn't even open because there was no one there to run them.
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Jennifer
This is. This is exactly what Donald Trump does with everything. Everything he touches. Diesel Falls Apart is fucked up. First and foremost, the United States. I mean, if you can bankrupt a casino, you are in a list of one person, and that's Donald Trump, and that's what he's doing to everything he touches. But here's the thing. He is enabled by all these people. And the biggest enablers of Donald Trump are the evangelical white Christians. And we see at this state fair, they are not wasting an opportunity to grandstand. Show us the clip, Kylie. Indoor pool. Oh, you can see the porta potties in the background. That's great. An indoor facility, which is a tent with empty chairs, but there's a dunk tank. So if you want to go and get baptized at this place, you absolutely can, because. Oh, and look.
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Kylie
Yeah.
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Jennifer
The flags. If you're w. If you're listening, there are two flags in this tent where you can be baptized. There's the United States flags, because it is the Great American State Fair and the flag of Israel. So that. That's kind of interesting. A dunk tank, you know, we want to baptize you and we have the Israeli flag. That's kind of a contradiction in terms for me. I don't know, maybe I'm crazy. And then just. It was. Nobody attended, nobody had fun. We know this because Donald Trump tweeted about it. So we wanted to compare and contrast the amazing videos from the Pride parades this weekend. Kylie, load us up.
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Kylie
So if you're listening, it's all of the crowds. I mean, it's millions and millions of people gathered in New York this weekend for Pride. I actually got to go to the Pride Parade.
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Jennifer
Did you?
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Kylie
Probably all of them. But I told Ryan, I was like, I've never seen so many people in one place. Like, and it's just a beautiful thing. And they did this while Trump was having the Great American State Fair. It's just a great contrast.
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Jennifer
Yeah, People are jumping up, down, they're dancing, they're spring water, they're dancing in fountains. There's real joy. There's joy here. But even. Here's the deal. Let's say we, you know, teleported to another universe and Trump did this. Even if it was packed full of people, there would not be joy, because they are. They are full of rage. These are the angriest, most fearful people on the planet. They cannot have fun. Even though they have the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court, they're still not happy. All Trump does is. And then, by contrast, you see people gathering and finding unity and celebrating Pride. And there were allies there, LGBTQIA plus, and allies of every race, creed, and color, and everyone celebrating and having a great time. And so I just think that's what we need to focus on, because this MAGA thing, I mean, if you can't get Bret Michaels and Vanilla Ice to play and you can't get the die hard maggots to come to D.C. for Trump, I mean, I feel like we're in late stage decline. Maybe I'm being too optimistic. Ryan, you've got your head in this all day long. What do you think?
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Ryan
Yeah, I mean, despite all of the warnings of Sharia law, Mayor Mandani was marching proudly in the Pride Parade. Unfortunately, I missed it this year. I was arresting yesterday, jealous that Kylie got to march in the parade.
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Jennifer
She got you sick. And then she went.
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Ryan
Yeah, she did. One thing that we just haven't talked about that I wanted to add. There Was a. For each state in the United States, there was a booth at the Great American State Fair. And I saw, I saw some of the booths, Alaska and Hawaii. Their booth was, I'm not, this is not an exaggeration. Two, like Adirondack chairs with a sign for the state. Literally nothing of its culture or significance or anything relevant to the state. And in North Carolina, there was a Confederate flag
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Jennifer
because the state said, we're not doing it. So a private owner put up a confederate flag. But, you know, here's the deal. You can't celebrate the native people of Hawaii and Alaska because this government doesn't condone anybody that's not white, European, white descendants. It's gross.
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Ryan
Yeah. And there's nothing that says, you know, that it's more about bringing people together than putting up the Confederate flag. So I think that is just kind of the perfect encapsulation of, of, you know, what this event represents and sort of how these people view America.
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Jennifer
Absolutely. They view it as a white person only. And here's the thing, they want division, they want segregation, they want apartheid between whites and blacks and whites and immigrants. That's what they're going for. But I was glad to see that they actually, I think somehow the state of Caroline, North Carolina, intervened with the private donor and they did take down the Confederate flag after backlash. But who was the dipshit that thought that would be okay anyway? Somebody in maga.
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Kylie
I mean, it is okay there.
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Jennifer
Yeah, it's okay there. I'm surprised it wasn't like all chips in. There was a line for it. All right, don't forget to buy and pre order Jennifer's new book, Not Today Fascist. And we will be back later today with more news.
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Progressive Insurance Announcer
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