Bidens Funding for Ukraine Concert Canceled
“America’s Concert Cancelled. A No to his Slush Fund. A no to his Ballroom funding. His name off The Kennedy Center.”
Summary
The Trump‑backed America250 concert has been cancelled after artists withdrew and Trump announced its termination. The $1.8 billion “anti‑weaponization” slush fund has been abandoned, and funding for the White House ballroom has not materialized. A federal judge ordered Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center façade.
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- Artists are bailing on a Trump-backed concert series for America’s 250th. Now he’s hosting his own ceremony | CNN
”We 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, and yet who do nothing but complain,” he posted later Saturday, adding, “Cancel it.”
- Trump administration appears to back off $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund after rare GOP backlash
Schumer took to the floor Monday to warn that the fund, as proposed, could funnel taxpayer money to “MAGA billionaires, cop-beating Jan. 6 insurrectionists and [Trump’s] own family.” · “Trump is claiming that the slush fund is dead for now. But Democrats will not stop until it’s well and truly buried and can never see the light of day,” he said.
- One birthday, two party planners: Freedom 250 vs. America250, explained
Learn more about how the America250 and Freedom 250 events differ as artists, including Martina McBride, Young MC and The Commodores, back out of Trump concert.
- Donald Trump meets Speaker Mike Johnson over DOJ's anti-weaponization fund
Thune calls on White House to ditch $1.8B anti-weaponization fund · Trump says ‘cancel’ concert for America’s 250th birthday
- Trump administration retreats on 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' - POLITICO
The $1.8 billion settlement was seen as a "slush fund" by the president's critics and made many in his own party uncomfortable.
- Further | That Colossal Wreck | Opinion
He lost yugely in multiple courts as judges reopened his bogus IRS suit, froze his slush fund, ripped his name from a D.C. landmark and, in Kenya, told him to take care of his own.
- Trump Plans to Drop $1.8 Billion Slush Fund After Major Court Loss | The New Republic
As of Friday, Martina McBride, Young MC, Milli Vanilli, The Commodores, Morris Day & the Time, and Bret Michaels had all withdrawn their names from the lineup, leaving only Flo Rida, Vanilla Ice, and a featured guest artist from the group C+C Music Factory. It seems the remaining lineup isn’t quite star-studded enough to pad Trump’s fragile ego. “Cancel it, just like I canceled my involvement with the failing and unsafe to be in Kennedy Center,” Trump wrote, before launching into a lengthy tirade against the federal judge who ordered that the president’s name be removed from the venue’s facade.
- Trump’s Disastrous Freedom 250 Concert Organizers Get Mystery Millions
The Swamp detects the hand of Susie Wiles behind Monday’s leak that the Trump administration had decided to abandon its $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. Surprise, surprise, a few minutes later, the DOJ announced that it was abiding by the federal judge Leonie M. Brinkema’s decision to put the skids on the slush fund.
- Trump Plans Mass Firings Over Humiliating Concert Fiasco
The funding for Trump’s White House ballroom and underground bunker hasn’t come through. And the president just retreated from his $1.8 billion MAGA slush fund after a court blocked it and Republicans pushed back.