Oh, my, people were harsh. The kickoff of the “Fair” didn’t start too well. At least according to people who were there. Of course, the “Fair” is also not going well. One could even say pitiful. A bunch of states couldn’t afford to do anything. Trump did not plan, or someone did not plan this thing very well at all. Whatever happened, well, it did. Gratitude to Raw Story:
Kash Patel’s girlfriend drew a torrent of mockery online after singing the national anthem at President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair on Wednesday night, with one viewer asking police to investigate a “murder” of the Star-Spangled Banner. Alexis Wilkins, 27, a Nashville-based aspiring country singer who began dating the 46-year-old FBI director in early 2023, performed the anthem before a sparse crowd on the National Mall, according to The Daily Beast. She announced the gig just one day before the event, and her top track on Spotify has about 520,000 streams, per Newsweek.
Country singer. National Anthem. This makes you cringe before she’s even started singing. It’s difficult to imagine what that sounded like, if not nearly impossible. Well, it probably made her and Kra$h happy, so that’s what counts, right? Good thing we weren’t there.
The crowd on the ground wasn’t exactly buzzing. “Oh, no… country music?” one attendee told CNN when asked if she was looking forward to the set. “Well, I think the Army band and the choirs, they’re gonna be really good,” the woman added. Online, the verdict was harsher. “She sounds like A DEAD CAT!!!!!” one commenter wrote, according to the. “Hello, D.C. police. I’d like to report a murder,” another posted. “Yes, someone has viciously murdered the national anthem.” A fifth commenter invoked the lip-sync duo that bailed on the fair days earlier: “Wasn’t Milli Vanilli available?” Milli Vanilli’s Fab Morvan told CNN on June 1 that he was withdrawing because the event had “turned into a circus.”
Scorched! It seems that the comments are much better than the singing was. That has to be embarrassing for her, unless her ego matches her boyfriend’s, in which case she blew it off. You have to have some sort of ego to do either one of those things – talking head for the FBI, or attempted singing. Oh, and drinking. A lot. In public. He’s called Kra$h for a reason.
Nepotism accusations ensued. “Does having the FBI director’s girlfriend getting paid by the taxpayers to perform violate federal ethics laws?” right-wing reporter Sara Higdon posted. Wilkins fired back in a lengthy social media post. Veteran national security journalist Marcy Wheeler, who runs the independent site emptywheel.net, was less diplomatic. “BREAKING: Because Trump can’t get real stars, the FBI Director’s side piece gets a slot!!! Goddess Bless America!” she posted on X. Matthew Sitman, co-host of the Know Your Enemy podcast and an associate editor at Commonweal, offered a more deadpan take, writing on X: “When I heard Vanilla Ice wouldn’t be participating, I had my fingers crossed she’d step in! It’s a July 4 miracle” — a jab at the threadbare lineup Trump has been left with after the wave of dropouts.
Apparently, the talent staff was desperate. It appears that no one was interested in her, her singing, or lack thereof, and more fun was to be had by dissing on her than listening. It’s a surprise there wasn’t any screaming trying to drown her out. But it’s over and done with, so we may all be grateful.
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