As a growing list of musical acts announced they were dropping out of, or had never agreed to participate in, a series of concerts celebrating the 250th anniversary of America’s independence, Donald Trump said that he didn’t need them anyway, the BBC reports.
“I don’t want so-called ‘artists’ that get paid far too much money, who aren’t happy,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “I only want to be surrounded by happy people, smart people, successful people and people that know how to win.”
The president instructed his “representatives” to look into making him the featured attraction of a planned 16-day “Great American State Fair” celebration on the National Mallin Washington DC later this month.
While it’s unclear whether the musicianswill in fact be replaced by what Trump has called a “giant Make America Great Again Rally”, it would only be the latest, most pointed illustration of how the president has inserted himself directly into America’s Independence Day celebrations.
