An East Coast heat wave is wreaking havoc on Donald Trump’s already troubled Great American State Fair in the capital.
The country’s 250th anniversary celebrations in Washington have so far seen lackluster attendance, a flimsy, plywood lookalike of Trump’s arch project, and a Confederate flag controversy that turned into a MAGA boycott of a pickle company. The fireworks celebration on July 4th has also been pushed back even later, on account of Trump’s planned speech that night.
“On July 4th, it’s going to be approximately 107 degrees out,” Trump said Wednesday in North Dakota, “and I’m going to make a really long speech just to show that I can do anything. It’s gonna be 107!”
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