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Trump Faces Growing Concerns Ahead of July 4 Speech

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump panicking as his staff begs him to cancel his July 4 speech as they fear no one will attend  just like no one is attended Great American State Fai...

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Donald Trump is panicking over his July 4th event in Washington, D.C., Trump regime officials are scrambling.

They want to cancel the event altogether.

They are terrified that no one wants to show up to Donald Trump's speech on July 4th, which is set to take place late at night. And then the fireworks are set to take place at 11 p.m. Donald Trump is screaming at his regime officials blaming them for the fact that nobody showed up to the so-called "Great American State Fair," which is in grade and it's

not even a state fair, Trump blames his staff for the fact that nobody showed up to the

speech he gave at the National Mall last week.

He's also livid that his staff keeps on posting aerial footage and images of the crowd size at the fair and at the National Mall showing how small the crowds were while Donald Trump is claiming 150,000 people are at the state fair every day. That's not true. And he says 40,000 people showed up at the speech I gave at the National Mall last week.

That's not true. Trump regime officials are leaking to the press that this event on July 4th is going to be an absolute disaster. It's expected to be 107 degrees. There may be major thunderstorms as well.

And again, Trump regime officials want this canceled. Let me show you what they are leaking to the press right now. Here is Caitlyn Collins talking about how livid Donald Trump is of these aerial images. Let me play this for you. Karen, I mean, the president and his allies have taken over the event to the planning

of them. When it comes to crowd expectation, though, we were told that the aerial image of the crowds from his rally last week in rage chim so much that officials ended up deleting them. And you have Caitlyn Collins talking about the weather forecast on July 4th and then Adam Kinzinger jumps in and talks about how Donald Trump only has himself to blame for just

how bad this has all been playing this clip. I mean, part of this is just the heat period. I mean, regardless of what's going on, the weather team here at CNN says that the forecast 102 degrees on Saturday is expected to be the hottest July 4th ever recorded. I mean, there's a list of what people can't even bring because of the type of security

measures, reusable water bottles, sunscreen, bug spray, camping chairs, coolers, umbrellas. I mean, if you're a family and you're going out to watch fireworks that aren't expected to start until after the president has spoken, it might make it tough to hang out for hours on end, Adam.

Yeah, and I think, you know, look, maybe God's sending a message.

I don't know. I can't speak for God, but, um, but yeah, I mean, look, I did that's clear. And again, nobody would care like, no, I don't remember any time in the past. People talking about the turnout for the July 4th fireworks on the Capitol, except that Donald Trump himself has made this a referendum on him.

It's always about crowdsize.

He said, you know, after all the people canceled that this will be a celebration, I think he recently even said that you're greatest, the greatest president, you're favorite president is going to speak at this. So he himself inserts himself into this and so it turned out, even if it's weather related. I mean, at that point, he basically has taken an ownership of the turnout.

But again, just the sad thing here is we're in the 250th anniversary of this country, and it's been driven by division, and I'm sure each side will blame the other side, but clearly Donald Trump has pulled away from this idea of America to 50 and freedom to 50 is his organization. It's all about him and he has a 30% approval rating.

So that's what's going to happen. You know, folks, this could have just been a great celebration of America's 250th birthday. This should have been a nonpartisan thing run through this miscellaneous, and this should not have been something that was divisive. But Donald Trump turned this all about himself, and that's the main reason it's become

this complete and utter failure, this complete and utter griffed. And it's just so odd, I mean, I'll show you yesterday, as Matt Ryan, who was there right, after many called it a team who arched, the Freedom 250 team added new columns to Trump's arch at the Great American State Fair here, play this clip.

Every of the main stage yesterday at the so-called Great American State Fair,...

a podcast called the Practically Political, which presented to a virtually non-existent

crowd at the Great American State Fair here at play this clip.

I mean, it's quite literally the worst event to ever, I mean, here you have disappointed

great American State Fair attendees yesterday here's what they had to say.

What do you think of all of this? Much, not much, and I've been to state fairs all throughout the United States, this is terrible. And how so, it's a program link advertising for the president. Interesting, it's very interesting, I've never seen anything like this before, for sure, in my 27 years of living in Virginia, I've been learning here the DC area.

And does anything jump out of you? No, nothing. There's no cows, there's no sheep, there's no goats, it's not a state fair without animals.

There's a butter cow, I'm told, at least they naïve a booth maybe, it'll milled

by tomorrow.

I'm totally underwhelmed, it's park political, that arch over there's, I think, promoting

one of Trump's vanity projects. I compare this to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival that they do every year, which is wonderful, really talks about different cultures and countries. This is so bland, but I had to come down and see it. The multiple stages at the event were largely empty.

CNN was at the Great American State Fair, again, not a state fair, they describe how

the Trump regime has been very troubled by the quote, "anemic showing of people here,

not that many people," and they show what it looked like here, playing this clip. Conditioning if you can, you can't expose yourself to this very long, and they're pointing in some ways, like the visitors here at the Great American State Fair events here, because

a lot of these people are out in the sun, and it's only going to get hotter.

In fact, some of the exhibits today, they've had intermittent power problems in Austin, air conditioning today, so much that the workers, they're simply left their stations and have been for yourself to rest as best you can. Different message from the administration, though, they've been very troubled by the anemic showing of people here, not that many people, they've been troubled by the embarrassment

of what's happened with the reflecting pool down the way, and they really want to have a lot more people out, especially for the fourth, but a big challenge there too, security is going to be at the level of an inaugural event, which means more roads closed, more blockages for pedestrians, more weights, and by the way, Jake, the fireworks are not expected to go until maybe 11 o'clock at night, that's more time waiting in the heat.

Then the Midas Touch Network's own Scott McFarlane was there yesterday, and he described how DC is hotter than an air fryer, and how worried he is for the health implications of the fact that the Trump regime is doing this on July 4th with 107 degree weather here to play this clip right here, well, come to the air fryer that is the nation's capital right now, trying to find the shade wherever I can, let me tell you what's going to happen

Friday and Saturday, temperature above 100 degrees, they're forecasting 103 degrees here. That's the same window for an anarchist 250th birthday, and that is the same window for Trump's rally in celebration of an anarchist 250th birthday, they're going to have to do something, I know his rally maybe later in the day or afterdark in spots with this celebration, but people are going to drop like flies in this heat, in this oppressive heat, if they have

to be out here all day, there are limitations on the amount of water bottles people can bring in, which is something they may want to read this, there's not a lot of shade to be had, I found one of the few spots in which it exists around here, and the fireworks don't go off until after all at the PM, it's not a great explanation for that that's been issued, but as a choice, if these people out here on the mall longer, who knows what the

crowd size is going to be, Trump rallies tend to turn out people, but the great American state fair down the road, it's like tumbleweed, it's rolling through the national mall, it's just nobody here, whether hasn't been great, but it's a politicized event, of hijacked the American 250th celebration that was approved and began planning, of the French planning began in 2016, and the politicization of this event, of this national celebration,

Has turned people off, and as convinced people not to come, it is a tumblewee...

the heat this weekend, we'll see what happens next.

And so yesterday in North Dakota, Donald Trump was bragging about how he was looking

forward to giving a speech in 107 degree weather, and it's going to show how tough he is that he can give a speech in 107 degree weather as one account says, wow, Mr. President, I bet you'll be so strong, you could go out during the hottest part of the day and stand

in direct sunlight in a wool suit with no water while you give that long speech, that

would show everybody Donald here at play this clip. On July 4th, it's going to be approximately 107 degrees out, and I'm going to go, and

I'm going to make a really long speech just to show that I could do anything, it's going

to be 107! It doesn't that stand in stark contrast to Prime Minister Carney during Canada Day, you saw the speech that he gave where he did a hydration break and wanted to make sure that everybody in the crowd was doing okay here playing this clip.

Speaking of which, before I introduced Jeremy finally, public service announcement, it

is time for a hydration break. It's hot. If you're watching at home, it is hot. There.

I also want to give a special shout out to Gene Park and a man to more, and also Anne Arquie

Princess, they've been capturing great images of what's been unfolding at the so-called great American state fair, which is like the biggest disaster ever. You take a look at this photo right here of Amanda and Gene capturing these bizarre moments, this very odd time in American history, also a man to more capture this image right here, as workers appear to be laying some kind of netting across the Lincoln Memorial reflecting

pool, this evening, presumably in preparation for the fireworks on July 4th, and I'll share this with you as well yesterday, Trump, ranting and raving like a lunatic about vandals throwing algae into the reflecting pelots. Why is this term this thing so we are nobody wants to be affiliated with, let's play this clip.

Beautiful. We got rid of the algae, which they put in, they put in algae. Who'd I help put in algae? They had a couple of people with signs, protect the algae. Can you believe this? This world has gotten crazy, but today I'm proud. (upbeat music)

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