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'Bizarre' new gimmick flops as Trump State Fair limps toward final closure: report
A Fair Built on Empty ChairsPower, Not AttendanceThe point of this story is not that a fair is struggling to draw a crowd. The point is that the White House and its organizers built a vanity spectacle around Donald Trump and then discovered that coercion, branding, and recycled grievance do not create public enthusiasm. The reporting says they responded by livestreaming a game show from the main stage, with empty seats and gray skies as the actual audience.The Decision MakersThis was never some random failure of weather or taste. The decision belongs to the people running the event and the…
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