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US limps to its landmark birthday
Derby Telegraph
|July 06, 2026
DONALD Trump has claimed he draws bigger crowds than Elvis Presley in his prime.
At his disastrous Great American State Fair, the only person leaving the building with urgency was a MAGA influencer dressed as Uncle Sam, and he was doing so in handcuffs.
The event was meant to be the launchpad for America’s 250th birthday, a glorious show of unity, confidence and national pride across Washington’s National Mall ahead of Saturday's celebrations.
Instead, it gave the world empty spaces, cancelled acts, stalled rides, melting ice cream, missing states and a President insisting everything was bursting with success while the pictures suggested somebody had forgotten to invite the public.
It would be easy to laugh and leave it there. Trump has always been part president, part showman, part man shouting through a megaphone outside a tent with nothing inside it. But his shambolic birthday warm-up speaks to something far more serious than one botched spectacle. It shows what has become of America under him.
This story is from the July 06, 2026 edition of Derby Telegraph.
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