President Donald J. Trump issued a social media statement Saturday in which he seemed to be taking issue with “third rate artists” dropping out of government-sponsored appearances in Washington, D.C., suggesting that he is looking at instead producing a different patriotic event that will have as its primary performer a star “who gets much larger audiences than Elvis”… Donald J. Trump.
The Truth Social statement is confusing on first blush, since Trump repeatedly refers to “Wednesday” as the date something could or would happen. In the context of the news of the last few days, he would seem to be referencing the wave of music artists dropping out of the “Freedom 250” series, but those shows are all scheduled for late June or early July, so the timeline for his line of thinking in the post is far from clear.
The president wrote: “I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate ‘Artists,’ and give a major speech, rallying the Country forward like I have done ever since being President!”
