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.
Will there be more visitors than degrees Fahrenheit at Trumps speech today?
Why did they decide on calling it a “State Fair” anyway? Wouldn’t it have made more sense to call it The National Fair?
Is it really trolling to make factual statements?
The state of modern journalism is extremely depressing.
At this point yes
Journalism == trolling. Nobody told you?
Journalism is trolling and facts are liberal spin.
Reality is not trolling.
The sites that do things like claim that CNN is “trolling Trump” are doing it to get clicks from left-leaning people. But, the effect is to hurt the interests of left-leaning people.
CNN is factually reporting on the “state fair” thing in an unbiased way, but reporting it truthfully makes Trump look bad.
Calling it trolling makes it seem like it’s what Jordan Klepper does on The Daily Show. It makes it seem partisan and biased.
But hey, these news sites are out to make a buck, and people post their stuff to social media sites like this one which generates clicks and revenue. So, mission accomplished.
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.
Ain’t nobody want to go to a pedophile fair.
I’m a simple man. I see Kaitlan Collins, I click.
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
Sounds like a plus to me
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.
First comment on the article, “that’s not ‘trolling’ - that’s reporting”
Damn straight.
There was an event down the road that had considerable people at it. So the heat excuse kinda falls flat.
Send deets. Peopoe might want to go.
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 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.
Not to defend Trump, but it’s hot as shit on the east coast. Philadelphia even canceled their 4th of July parade because of the heat.
I don’t think people would have shown up regardless of which pedophile was in charge.
I mean, he’s the party that is continuing to dismantle green energy. So this is sorta like a self inflicted nut punch.
The best kind of nut punch.
