{"id":2579,"date":"2026-07-01T19:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2579"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T19:40:27","slug":"fox-friends-ditch-trumps-fair-after-days-of-bare-lawns-and-thin-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2579","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fox &#038; Friends&#8217; ditch Trump\u2019s fair after days of &#8216;bare lawns and thin crowds&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>One of President Donald Trump\u2019s favorite shows, \u201cFox &amp; Friends,\u201d is pulling up stakes after just days of promoting his Great American State Fair, a 16-day event to celebrate the nation\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2577\">\u2018National collapse\u2019 imminent as Trump reaches \u2018tipping point\u2019: analysis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to The Daily Beast, the conservative morning TV show \u201cis back in the studio\u201d after two days, which \u201cit spent talking up over live shots of empty grass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of President Donald Trump\u2019s favorite shows, \u201cFox &amp; Friends,\u201d is pulling up stakes after just days of promoting his Great American State Fair, a 16-day event to celebrate the nation\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Daily Beast, the conservative morning TV show \u201cis back in the studio\u201d after two days, which \u201cit spent talking up over live shots of empty grass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday morning, the \u201cFox &amp; Friends\u201d studio was packed with \u201can audience of first responders, veterans, and their families\u201d as the hosts returned to the indoor set, The Daily Beast noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been away for 48 hours. They\u2019ve been waiting for us to return. We appreciate it,\u201d co-host Brian Kilmeade declared.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had claimed that 45,000 people turned out for his kickoff speech, but Fox News\u2019 cameras \u201cblew apart the president\u2019s boasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2575\">Theory emerges that Alito planted false retirement story to catch a leaker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As did photographs from Reuters, The Daily Beast reported, with them \u201cshowing nowhere near the numbers the president had touted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe network\u2019s live shots from the Mall repeatedly framed wide stretches of empty grass behind its anchors, The Daily Beast added. \u201cOn other mornings, the walkways and booths behind the set sat all but empty. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, 28, turned up on the show Monday to gush about the fair with a bare lawn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, USA Today opinion columnist Rex Huppke wrote, \u201cI love President Donald Trump\u2019s Great American State Fair. I love its emptiness. It\u2019s expensive food. Its ability to confound Trump-friendly media outlets that keep pretending it\u2019s going great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love seeing Fox News broadcasting from the fair, its hosts claiming the place is filled with excited patriots while the scenes behind them show a vast expanse of untrod-upon grass with an occasional few humans milling along the fringes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huppke said it was \u201clike watching your high school bully host a party that no one attends. It\u2019s a daily humiliation for a wildly unpopular president who coopted what should be a unifying national celebration and turned it into repellent schlock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2573\">How Trump\u2019s America 250 \u2018pet projects\u2019 left small towns out in the cold<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of President Donald Trump\u2019s favorite shows, \u201cFox &#038; Friends,\u201d is pulling up stakes after just days of promoting his Great American State Fair, a 16-day event to celebrate the nation\u2019s 250th birthday.According to The Daily Beast, the conservative morning TV show \u201cis back in the studio\u201d after two d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Fox &amp; 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