{"id":2677,"date":"2026-05-31T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/31\/after-slamming-boring-freedom-250-concert-dropouts-trump-says-cancel-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T01:45:00","slug":"after-slamming-boring-freedom-250-concert-dropouts-trump-says-cancel-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/31\/after-slamming-boring-freedom-250-concert-dropouts-trump-says-cancel-it\/","title":{"rendered":"After Slamming \u201cBoring\u201d Freedom 250 Concert Dropouts, Trump Says \u201cCancel It\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tAfter making a post on Saturday morning against the \u201cthird rate artists\u201d<\/a> who have\u00a0dropped out\u00a0of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s Freedom 250 concert series, the president is sharing his updated thoughts on the event, blatantly saying, \u201ccancel it.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tTrump made a second Truth Social<\/a> post about the Freedom 250 event that has seen a plethora of musical artists drop out of its lineup on Saturday evening. There, he suggested instead having a Make America Great Again rally, before also sharing additional thoughts on U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruling Friday that his name must be removed<\/a> from the Kennedy Center<\/a> building. \t<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music<\/a> is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain,\u201d he wrote. \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! It would have also been nice to see a Republican\/Democrat union bring it back to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tEarlier on Saturday, Trump slammed the musical acts who have exited the Freedom 250 concert series, and suggested that he may invite \u201cthe man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis,\u201d referring to himself, to take their place with a speech instead of a musical performance.<\/p>\n

\tHe wrote, \u201cI understand Artists are getting \u2018the yips\u2019 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 \u2018Artists,\u2019 and give a major speech, rallying the Country forward like I have done ever since being President!\u201d \t<\/p>\n

\tOn Friday, Bret Michaels and The Commodores joined a group of musical talent who announced they had exited the concert series<\/a>. In a statement on his website, the Poison lead singer explained that \u201cunfortunately, what was presented to us as a celebration of our country has evolved into something much more divisive than what I agreed to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tYoung MC, Morris Day<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Martina McBride<\/a> also exited the Freedom 250 concert slate. Milli Vanilli was also announced as part of the lineup, however Jodie Rocco, a member of the group, told the\u00a0Associated Press<\/em>\u00a0on Thursday that she was \u201cshocked\u201d to see Milli Vanilli\u2019s name on the list.<\/p>\n

\tVanilla Ice and Flo Rida are two artists still slated to perform across the Freedom 250 concert series. The event is taking place from June 25 to July 10 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.,\u00a0as part of the Freedom 250 public-private partnership, which is backed by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After making a post on Saturday morning against the \u201cthird rate artists\u201d who have\u00a0dropped out\u00a0of Donald Trump\u2018s Freedom 250 concert series, the president is sharing his updated thoughts on the event, blatantly saying, \u201ccancel it.\u201d Trump made a second Truth Social post about the Freedom 250 event that has seen a plethora of musical artists drop out of its lineup on Saturday evening. There, he suggested instead having a Make America Great Again rally, before also sharing additional thoughts on U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper ruling Friday that his name must be removed from the Kennedy Center building. \u201cWe should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1617,91,92,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hollywood","category-kennedy-center","category-music","category-music-news","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}