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President Donald Trump's highly touted "Great American State Fair" got off to a rough start Wednesday night, with NBC News estimating only slightly over a thousand attendees showed up for the opening rally on the National Mall.

That sparse turnout set the tone for what could be a disappointing weekend for the president, with those considering attending being warned to expect deteriorating weather conditions, including brutal humidity, spotty showers, and a significant threat of thunderstorms.

The National Park Service refused to corroborate President Donald Trump's claim of a 350-foot Reflecting Pool "gash" in a sworn court declaration filed this week.

Frank Lands, the NPS's deputy director for operations, submitted the two-page declaration in an ongoing federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia over the pool's renovation.

Jimmy Fallon shredded President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair on Wednesday night, mocking the White House's claim that the 16-day National Mall event was a nonpartisan celebration by noting it bore an uncanny resemblance to a Trump rally.

The "Tonight Show" host opened his monologue by needling Trump for headlining the opening ceremony himself after several musical acts dropped out. NBC News reported that Young MC, Martina McBride, The Commodores, Morris Day and the Time, and Poison frontman Bret Michaels all backed out, citing concerns about the political nature of an event backed by the Trump White House.

Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” being held on the Mall in Washington, DC, is off to a ragged start with supporters of the president walking out on him as he was still speaking at an opening rally Wednesday night.

As NBC News reported, hours after the president got into a shouting match with Republicans in a closed-door meeting, he attended the opening ceremonies and told fans, “As you know very well, a short time ago we were a dead country. We were dead. Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world. We’re respected by everybody. Nobody’s laughing at us anymore.”

Conservative outrage aimed at former Fox News personality Tucker Carlson for saying he won’t vote for Republicans in November could come back to haunt the GOP if he makes the leap and runs for president.

According to Salon political analyst Amanda Marcotte, Carlson has a large enough following and a big enough megaphone via his podcast to create problems for leading contenders like Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.

The Make America Healthy Again movement that helped sweep Donald Trump back into the White House is fracturing over his betrayal on pesticides — and MAHA activists are now threatening to stay away from Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.

According to a report from MS NOW's Arielle Hixson, the Trump administration's decision to back Monsanto in the Supreme Court's Roundup pesticide liability case is turning into a pivot point for the administration. The company is fighting to shield itself from state lawsuits claiming the herbicide should have carried cancer warnings. By supporting Monsanto's legal team, Trump signaled whose side he's on—and it's not the health-conscious base that carried him to victory.

Seeking to break up the logjam created by the Department of Justice, which continues to drag its feet on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files, members of the House Oversight Committee have discussed issuing subpoenas to people who could testify about secret settlements between some of Jeffrey Epstein’s friends and his accusers.

According to Business Insider reporting, relayed by Politico, some of Epstein's accusers signed prelitigation settlements with friends of the sex offender whom they also accused of sexual misconduct. Those settlements come with "iron-clad NDAs" prohibiting victims from speaking publicly about their experiences—a systematic silencing campaign that has kept the full scope of abuse hidden.

Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-MO) interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday night left some observers taken aback.

Hawley joined Ingraham ahead of President Donald Trump's "Freedom 250" rally, where the two discussed immigration policy and a host of other issues. At one point, Hawley attempted to make a populist argument about liberals being disconnected from the problems of immigration, one that didn't land with some observers.

A political expert flagged one point where President Donald Trump has become "especially vulnerable" as the 2026 midterm elections approach.

Karl Rove, a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff for President George W. Bush, argued in a new op-ed for The Wall Street Journal that Trump's deal with the Iranian regime could be his greatest weakness as the midterms approach. Rove argued that the deal was likely to disappoint Trump's supporters because it didn't achieve any of Trump's war goals, like preventing Iran from financing the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon or developing a nuclear weapon.

The Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board bashed President Donald Trump's latest legislative "mish-mosh" that came to a boil on Wednesday.

Trump abruptly canceled a bill-signing ceremony for the overwhelmingly popular 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to force lawmakers to pass his SAVE America Act, a less popular piece of legislation that would fundamentally reshape how American elections are conducted. The move caught several Republicans by surprise, some of whom still showed up to the ceremony because they had not been notified of the cancellation.