President Trump says he may replace the musicians who backed out of his “Great American State Fair” with an act he claims is even bigger than Elvis — himself.
The event, a 16-day celebration in Washington, DC, marking the nation’s 250th birthday, was coordinated by the President’s nonprofit, Freedom 250, and it was supposed to feature a series of concerts. But just days after organizers announced the lineup, nearly every act has pulled out, citing the event’s association with Trump as the cause.
In a post on his Truth Social platform, the President on Saturday floated canceling the concerts and considered the possibility of giving a speech on the National Mall instead.
“I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World,” he wrote, “the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate ‘Artists,’ and give a major speech, rallying the Country forward like I have done ever since being President!”
The President added that he is “ordering my Representatives to look at the feasibility of doing an AMERICA IS BACK Rally,” where only “Happy People, Smart People, Successful People, and People that know how to WIN” will be welcome.
“Only Great Patriots invited — It will be a Wild and Beautiful Celebration of America!” he concluded.
The concerts were supposed to feature Martina McBride, Brett Michaels, Milli Vanilli, Morris Day and the Time, the Commodores, C+C Music Factory, Young MC, Flo Rida and Vanilla Ice.
Vanilla Ice is the only person who doubled down on performing while Flo Rida has not commented at all about the event.
“I’m here to party with America, man,” Ice told TMZ on Friday. “Music is made to bring people together, and that’s what we are here to do. And we’re just gonna represent the ’90s.”
Freedom 250 is a public-private partnership created by the White House to coordinate celebrations of the United States’ 250th anniversary.