Artists are dropping out of the Trump-linked Freedom 250 concerts. Here's why. by 6ixStringJack

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Artists are dropping out of the Trump-linked Freedom 250 concerts. Here's why.

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UPDATED: Monday, June 1, 2026 16:11
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Sunday, May 31, 2026 5:40 PM

The artists have said they were misled about the event's theme and want to avoid political controversy.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/what-to-know
-artists-backing-out-trump-freedom-250-concerts/4110246/

Sorry, my little darlings.

Mission failed.

Music is basically free now, so good luck keeping up what little paltry Spotify royalties you were still generating. Especially since most of you belong in the old folks home. Hope ya'all saved up your nickles and dimes.

Have a great day.

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Sunday, May 31, 2026 6:00 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

It's kind of hilarious, when you think about it, actually...

I had no idea that this event was scheduled to take place. I couldn't care in the slightest about an event such as this, and I would imagine that had it just taken place and nobody talked about it, on the off chance that it even hit my radar I would have forgotten about it 5 minutes later and never gave it a single thought again in my life.

The most shocking thing I've learned today is that The Commodores are still a thing. Although I did just look it up and I was sad to see that this isn't because there was a reunion and Lionel wasn't back on the team. I guess they've always pretty much always been around all these years. Maybe playing state fairs and small venues. Good for them. Virtual anonymity, but being able to travel and do what you do best and love to do. Nice.

I also learned that in the right light and with his hair pulled back and a baseball cap on Bret Michaels looks like Kid Rock. I know it wasn't him because he wouldn't drop out, but I had to do a double-take. I think the below linked article did a great job at subliminally making people think that Kid Rock was a performer and that he dropped out by using the image of 3 of the artists with Michaels in the middle looking like Kid Rock and using the following text in the sub-title: "Musicians expected to perform at the event celebrating America's 250th birthday are dropping out left and right."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/every-artist-whos-d
ropped-controversial-220843928.html

Left and Right. You get it?

Martina McBride was somebody. I remember her name. I think she had a hit or two on the radio in my young years that I couldn't stand listening to.

Who's Young MC again? Oh. Right. He did Bust a Move. That was a banger at my 7th grade dance.

The living half of Milli Vanilli hasn't made up their mind on whether you're going to be able to see them lip synch their hits from 35 years ago.

Morris Day and the Time?

Wake me up when Otis Day and the Knights backs out.

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Those who dance always seem crazy to those who can't hear the music.

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Monday, June 1, 2026 9:45 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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It's kind of hilarious, when you think about it, actually...

I had no idea that this event was scheduled to take place.

You had no idea that July 4, 2026, was 250 years after July 4, 1776?

“You talk too damn much, and it’s too damn much about you.” That quote from Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye is a good summary of the fiasco that Donald Trump has made of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

You might have thought that presiding over such a celebration would be an easy success for Trump. He is a showman, after all. He loves parades and extravaganzas. It was all an easy layup, a gimme, a chance for a now-unpopular second-term president to reinvent himself as the leader of all of the American people. The only thing he had to do was—for once in his life—not act like an insane egomaniac.

He couldn’t do it.

Trump knows he has botched the anniversary. He says so himself. Last night, he posted the following indictment of his own program on his Truth Social platform:

We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain. Cancel it, just like I canceled my involvement with the failing and unsafe to be in Kennedy Center, because a Highly Conflicted, Crooked Federal Judge, said that I should not be allowed to spend my time and money in order to MAKE THE CENTER GREAT AGAIN, actually, far greater than it ever was before! It would have also been nice to see a Republican/Democrat union bring it back to life. The Kennedy Center is broken, unsafe, and $busted, and has been for many years! Judge Cooper also stated that the highly prestigious Board of the Center was not authorized to add on the name “TRUMP” despite the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars of my time and money will be necessary for its successful reincarnation. So now, the Kennedy Center will collapse, both structurally and financially. Judge Cooper and his wife, Amy Jeffress (obfuscation anyone?), should be ashamed of themselves. Judge Cooper, like numerous other Crooked Judges on my cases, should be IMPEACHED. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Translated into plain English, the president was complaining that seven of the nine acts scheduled to headline the July 4 weekend musical program canceled within 48 hours of one another because they realized that the event was degenerating into a hyperpartisan salute to Trump personally. His proposed solution? Replace the canceled acts with a Trump rally speech! A speech that will focus on Trump’s outrage that a judge blocked him from renaming the Kennedy Center after himself!

The man who assumed responsibility for organizing the 250th commemoration of the Declaration of Independence instead decided to make the day a royalist celebration of himself: seeking to emblazon his face on coinage and currency, displaying his image on banners in downtown Washington, and scheduling the central event of the celebration—a televised cage fight—for his own birthday on June 14. A cage fight may seem to some a barbarous way to honor Thomas Jefferson’s great manifesto. But many Americans will enjoy it, and on an occasion such as this, there’s room for a wide range of activities. There’s no room, however, to elevate the presidency created by the revolution of 1776 into a gaudy cult of personality. Trump’s drive to transform July 4, 2026, into a colossal national Day of Trump instead has triggered a rebellious update of the “Spirit of ’76.”

Trump’s effort to rebrand the semiquincentennial as the Day of Trump left no time, budget, or effort available for the true purpose of the anniversary. As his own self-celebration has fizzled, a void has opened between the scheduled roster of events and the true purpose and meaning of the solemnity of July 4, 2026.

Trump has made a pitiful shambles of what should have been a glorious moment.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/05/trump-250-truth/687384/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, June 1, 2026 3:41 PM

JAYNEZTOWN

Trump has become a clownish Zionist, you know if you offered me a few quid I'd get back into playing and support Thomas Massie...maybe but he lost the system killed his political career for his honesty

There are very few political leaders and elected representatives around, maybe Commie China as insane as that soudns I respect them for trying to modernize, not be global police and enter endless wars and take care of their own
otherwise most other people in politics are scumbags

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Monday, June 1, 2026 4:11 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

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It's kind of hilarious, when you think about it, actually...

I had no idea that this event was scheduled to take place.
You had no idea that July 4, 2026, was 250 years after July 4, 1776?

No.

I had no idea that they were putting on a benefit concert for all of you ancient fucks who are going to die soon.

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“You talk too damn much, and it’s too damn much about you.”

That's good advice.

How about you shut the fuck up, finally.

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