“Artists bail on Trump’s ‘Freedom 250’ Concert Series”
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We have the right guaranteed by the Constitution to criticize and satirize our leaders. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a right that many of us take for granted. |
| 0:14.0 | It's one that I took for granted for the first 57 years of my life until September of last year. |
| 0:19.2 | We will not stand by when comedy and journalism and |
| 0:22.4 | dissent are censored and regulated and criminalized. Thank you to Donald Trump, our |
| 0:29.4 | commander and thief, Abram Lincoln, Orange Julius Caesar, greedy McGulphy, dopey, and Pumpkin McCornhomper. |
| 0:42.0 | Thank you for inspiring us to fight for our freedom of speech. |
| 0:48.9 | Hi again, everybody. It's not 5 o'clock in New York. We didn't even get to him calling |
| 0:53.0 | Donald Trump, blobbed the builder and the hungry, hungry hypocrite. |
| 0:56.6 | Jimmy Kimmel accepted a Peabody Award over the weekend on the power of using humor to call out |
| 1:02.8 | Donald Trump's autocratic impulses and tell the truth about what's happening in our country right now from his very powerful perch. |
| 1:09.7 | And while Donald Trump has never, ever been accused of |
| 1:13.2 | making anyone's job easier, except maybe that of the guy that puts gold leaf on everything in the |
| 1:18.7 | civil office, when it comes to using satire to speak truth to power, sometimes Trump does the job |
| 1:25.3 | for all of us. Over the weekend, after artists after artists dropped out of his Freedom 250 concert series, |
| 1:31.7 | including Celebrity Apprentice winner, Brett Michaels, |
| 1:34.9 | Donald Trump took to his favorite social media platform to declare this. |
| 1:39.7 | Quote, I understand artists are getting the yips having to do with their performance on Wednesday, |
| 1:46.7 | so I am thinking about bringing the all caps number one attraction anywhere in the world, |
| 1:53.6 | the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime. |
| 1:59.5 | He does so without a guitar. The man who loves our country more than anyone |
| 2:05.4 | else, and the man who some say is the greatest president in history, switching to all caps, |
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