Trump pushes vanity projects, while his public support slips
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MS NOW, Ali Velshi
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🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning to you. It is Saturday, June the 6th. Donald Trump was really looking forward to |
| 0:11.8 | this summer. The stars aligned for him to oversee both the country's 250th anniversary and |
| 0:17.8 | America's turn hosting the World Cup. Grand events with massive audiences and plenty |
| 0:22.6 | of pomp and circumstance, and Trump was planning on being at the center stage for all of it. |
| 0:27.5 | Trump, who as you know is the recipient of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, is expected to be |
| 0:33.4 | involved throughout the World Cup tournament, and as part of the 250th anniversary festivities, |
| 0:37.6 | he's constructing a massive stage at the White House for a UFC cage fight on June 14th, which |
| 0:45.5 | also happens to be Trump's own birthday. What a coincidence. And then there's the Great American |
| 0:50.8 | State Fair, a week's long event to be hosted on the National Mall. |
| 0:55.8 | Now, this was originally supposed to kick off with a big opening day concert, but the majority |
| 1:00.2 | of artists who were announced as part of that lineup dropped out when they learned it was actually |
| 1:04.4 | a Trump event. And now Trump plans to headline it himself. So now, a MAGA rally will serve as the kickoff to what is |
| 1:12.8 | ostensibly a celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the United States of America, |
| 1:17.5 | which is right out of the authoritarian playbook. Get the people to conflate the strong man with |
| 1:23.0 | the state itself. And Trump has been deploying this tactic prolifically across the second term, |
| 1:28.3 | seeking to lodge himself in our national consciousness so that he becomes interchangeable with the |
| 1:32.6 | idea of America itself. Consider the many things that have been named after Donald Trump |
| 1:37.9 | since he retook the White House, a government website to buy medication, a new class of battleship, |
| 1:43.3 | tax-free savings accounts with the IRS. |
| 1:46.2 | The United States Institute of Peace, which is a congressionally funded think tank and the John |
| 1:51.2 | F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, which was created by Congress. Both cases, |
| 1:56.3 | the name changes came after the Trump administration installed handpicked boards of directors, and both are |
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