Fox News shielding Trump's 'tortured psyche' by ignoring 'sparse crowd': analysts [View all]

By Travis Gettys
Published June 26, 2026 8:19 AM ET

President Donald Trump's crowd-size anxiety exploded back into view when his Great American State Fair kickoff event drew a strikingly thin turnout.

The 80-year-old president claimed 45,000 people showed up on the National Mall to watch Lee Greenwood and the FBI director's girlfriend perform, but media accounts estimated about 1,000 attendees – fewer than some outdoor movie screenings – had actually turned out, and The New Republic's Greg Sargent said on his "Daily Blast" podcast that Trump can't handle that kind of disappointment.

"Donald Trump isn’t calling for people to show up at this thing on July 4 solely because he wants adulation and big crowds, right?" Sargent said. "Although of course he does want those things, and it drives him absolutely insane when he doesn’t get them and when others get larger crowds. This is just a fact of Trump’s tortured psyche – we know this."

https://www.rawstory.com/great-american-state-fair-crowd/

Hey Fix Noise ever hear or read the saying " Suppose they gave a war and nobody came"..............maybe it should be updated and said "Suppose they had a Trump State Fair and nobody came"................ to the shit show"...........has a nice ring don't you think...............you really should have your operating license pulled........or better yet lets bring back the Fairness Doctrine..........