Even Republicans Hate Trump’s America 250 Lineup | MAGA Mondays
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🗓️ 1 June 2026
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Will Sommer and Sam Stein went live on Monday at 10am to cover the outrage from Republicans about artists cancelling on America 250 and Trump making it a rally instead, the Proud Boys bringing cookies to a pro-ICE rally, Trump’s former Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino hanging with white nationalists, and James Fishback’s ex-girlfriend speaking out.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? Will Summer. How you doing, buddy? I'm Sam Stein. It's Maga Mondays, folks. We got a whole, whole set of things to go through. But I'll just say this. I've been listening to Big and Rich all morning, Will, because I'm just getting myself ready for the 250th birthday musical act. |
| 0:21.5 | It seems like there was a lot of momentum in Magaland building to just, you know, |
| 0:27.3 | basically everyone's canceled, |
| 0:28.4 | so why not just get John Richard Bing and Rachel come and bring his Nashville friends |
| 0:32.2 | and they could perform. |
| 0:33.6 | So I've been looking, I've been listening to some other tunes, you know, |
| 0:37.2 | save a horse, ride a cowboy, everyone knows that one. I'm partial to get my fake ID. I think I got that right. I don't know if I got that right. Looks like it was from the music, from the footloose movie. Do you have a favorite? You know, as I was saying to you, I'm more of a Toby Keith man myself. I sort of missed the big and rich wave, although, of course, we all do know Save a Horse ride a Cowboy. |
| 0:59.8 | All right, folks, welcome back to Maga Mondays. |
| 1:02.9 | We got a lot to go through. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to start with the 250th anniversary. |
| 1:06.6 | Over the weekend, if you missed out, it looked like Donald Trump basically was saying he's going to cancel the musical acts. Well, there's not much to cancel. How many were left? Vanilla Ice. Oh, yeah. I think vanilla ice and like maybe one more. Okay. So we had two left. And basically he was like, you know what? Screw these people. I'm just going to do it myself. And he kind of teased that there was going to be just a big Trump rally. |
| 1:28.4 | And that was going to do it myself and he kind of teased that there was going to be just a big trump rally and that was going to be it and uh we're going to have to endure one of those |
| 1:33.9 | meandering hour and a half speeches that trump gives everywhere he goes the same schick um |
| 1:39.9 | but that's what you get when you cancel all these musical rallies um and maguel didn didn't take it too well. I thought, you know, usually you would think that they're going to be like, hell yeah, let's do it. Will, that was not the case this time. Yeah, this is an interesting one. I mean, I think, as you said, I mean, these were already acts who were like pretty washed up, milly, vanilla dare you. I know. I the the country music singer |
| 2:04.0 | woman whose name is escaping me. Mars McBride. Yes. Yes. And so once those people fled. And by the way, |
| 2:10.3 | that was a pretty funny one because they were like, oh, I didn't know this was a political event, |
| 2:14.1 | but really nothing changed. I think it just once it came out,, they were like, oh, man, this looks kind of busted. |
| 2:19.1 | You know, I mean, even the graphic looks bad. And I think a lot of these people were like, wait, hold on a second. Imagine you're Martha McBride, okay? And I know she got a lot. No, yeah, Martine McBride, sorry. And imagine you're Martin McGrath. and you're told, hey, we're going to do this big sort of 250th anniversary celebration. |
| 2:37.3 | It's going to do this big sort of 250th anniversary |
| 2:35.8 | celebration it's going to be huge crowds lots of you know people on the mall you're going to be |
| 2:40.8 | playing to you know it's patriotic it's not political and then the first news you get is an infographic |
| 2:47.8 | and it's you vanilla ice millie vanillailly and you're like holy shit like why am i |
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