Trump Scrambles to Fill Seats at Latest Vanity Event

Organizers of Donald Trump’s latest patriotic MAGA spectacle are scrambling to fill seats and avoid the empty crowds of the Great American State Fair.

The Patriot Games were framed by the president as an “unprecedented” extravaganza pitting America’s “greatest high school athletes”—one male and one female from each state and territory—against each other to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday.

Sparse crowds become a running joke. Reporters and visitors described underwhelming attendance, with photos of empty walkways and exhibits spreading online. Axios wrote that Washington had a “new pastime” roasting the fair. / Andrew Leyden / Getty Images

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