{"id":83183,"date":"2026-05-31T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83183"},"modified":"2026-05-31T07:55:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:55:57","slug":"president-urges-cancelation-of-freedom-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/president-urges-cancelation-of-freedom-concerts\/","title":{"rendered":"President Urges Cancelation Of &#8216;Freedom&#8217; Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times:<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">President Trump on Saturday called for the cancellation of a concert series celebrating the nation\u2019s 250th birthday this summer, after a wave of musicians pulled out.\u00a0\u201cCancel it,\u201d Mr. Tru<span style=\"color: #000000;\">mp\u00a0<a class=\"css-yywogo\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116666021445682015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote on Truth Social<\/a>, adding, \u201cWe should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring,<\/span> and yet who do nothing but complain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Freedom 250, the group that is organizing the administration\u2019s events for the birthday celebration, announced on Wednesday that a series of nine musical acts would perform during a 16-day exposition \u2014 known as the Great American State Fair \u2014 on the National Mall beginning in late June. The exposition is part of the festivities surrounding America\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1780214157\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"President Urges Cancelation Of &#8216;Freedom&#8217; Concerts\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The New York Times: President Trump on Saturday called for the cancellation of a concert series celebrating the nation\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83184,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83183\/revisions\/83184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}