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Trump's beleaguered state fair fumbles again as monument literally falls apart
The State Fair Is a Cover Story for PowerPower, Not PageantryThe real subject here is not a “Great American State Fair” with a broken decorative arch and thin crowds. It is a sitting president using public space, public institutions, and public money to stage an ego project around the nation’s 250th anniversary. Trump is not a spectator to this outcome. He is the decision-maker at the center of it.The source gives the clue plainly: the event is part of the official festivities in Washington, and the arch, the pool renovation, and the surrounding spectacle all sit inside Trump’s long habit of…
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