{"id":243627,"date":"2026-06-01T17:58:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/donald-trump-calls-to-cancel-america-250-concert-following-performer-protests\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:58:05","slug":"donald-trump-calls-to-cancel-america-250-concert-following-performer-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/donald-trump-calls-to-cancel-america-250-concert-following-performer-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Calls to Cancel America 250 Concert Following Performer Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This was supposed to be America\u2019s summer. <\/p>\n<p>Right now, the nation is celebrating its 250th anniversary while also preparing to host the World Cup \u2014 sounds like a good time, right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, unfortunately, the vibe these days is much more \u201cunprecedented levels of division and discord\u201d and much less \u201cparty like it\u2019s 1999.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><noscript><\/noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2278487848-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump listens to members of his Cabinet speak during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on May 27, 2026 in Washington, DC.  \" class=\"wp-image-556209 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2278487848-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2278487848-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2278487848-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2278487848-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2278487848-960x640.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2278487848-1080x720.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2278487848-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) calc(100vw - 20px), 720px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-2278487848-scaled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald Trump listens to members of his Cabinet speak during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on May 27, 2026 in Washington, DC.  <span class=\"image-caption-credit\"> (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we previously reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/05\/martina-mcbride-bret-michaels-numerous-others-drop-out-of-america-250-concerts-whats-going-on-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multiple singers have pulled out of the America 250 concert<\/a> in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>Martina McBride, Bret Michaels, the Commodores, Young MC, and several others announced last week that they had decided to perform at the event.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases, they hinted that the concert had become politicized in ways they had not anticipated, but they did not get into specifics.<\/p>\n<p>Never one to back down from a challenge (or an opportunity to be petty), Donald Trump responded to the situation by announcing that he wants to cancel the concert and host a MAGA rally instead.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"\/>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCancel 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!\u201d the president continued, adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt 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!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, for a guy who likes to dance, Trump\u2019s not big on parties. In fact, he recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/05\/donald-trump-jr-bettina-anderson-married\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">skipped his own son\u2019s wedding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s nothing the man loves more than one of his signature rallies, and it sounds like that\u2019s what America 250 is about to become.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/116666021445682015\/embed\" class=\"truthsocial-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an odd suggestion for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that political rallies are generally reserved for the campaign trail, and Trump is not currently running for office. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, he\u2019s not even eligible to run for the White House again, but don\u2019t tell him that.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, there are several acts \u2014 including, we kid you not, Vanilla Ice and one of the dudes from Milli Vanilli \u2014 that are still slated to perform at America 250.<\/p>\n<p>Canceling the event would seem like punishing them for their loyalty, but that sort of move is very much in the Trump administration\u2019s wheelhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, with just weeks to go before the start of the so-called Great American State Fair, the event is very much in a state of turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps these days, there\u2019s no more appropriate way to celebrate America\u2019s birthday than with more chaos and uncertainty.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/06\/donald-trump-calls-to-cancel-america-250-concert-following-performer-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes This was supposed to be America\u2019s summer. Right now, the nation is celebrating its 250th anniversary while also preparing to host the World Cup \u2014 sounds like a good time, right? Well, unfortunately, the vibe these days is much more \u201cunprecedented levels of division and discord\u201d and much less \u201cparty like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}