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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-05T17:22:49.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nExciting news, patriots! After cancelling his OG concert, Dear Leader will now celebrate our 250th birthday with \"the Greatest Rally, EVER!\" featuring the \"fabulous\" 83-year-old Lee Greenwood and “a fine and highly dignified gentleman,\" himself. Also, for some reason, \"prune-face\" Bruce Springsteen and a gazillion A-list performers are holding two concerts to honor America's \"songs that shaped us.\" Reviews call it \"a rare gift\" in music history, but they're all losers and lunatics.\n\nTaking time off from nodding off (again) in a meeting, Trump as predicted has finally cancelled his much-hyped “Freedom 250 concert of has-beens and never-weres after almost all nine acts bailed; poor Vanilla Ice, reportedly the only, desperate act still ready to go on. The concerts were set to kick off his equally-fab-sounding Great American State Fair, a \"once in a generation...State Fair like no other\" - \"Dive into the fun and feel the energy\" - hosting carnival rides, \"hands-on partner activations\" from each state, and daily workshops with titles like ****_Land & Prosperity_ _,__Family Life and Community Support,__Everyday Health_ _and Well Being with MAHA Monday_ _,_ and _Faith, Values, and Inspiration_.\n\nTrump was his usual chivalrous self in defeat after the concert went down in tacky flames. \"We don't want singers with no talent, but big fees to put you to sleep,\" he wrote. \"We’ve told them all to stay home.\" Instead, he giddily announced “a Rally to end all Rallies!\" in \"magnificent Washington D.C, now totally beautified.\" Because, \"All we want is you, me, a few speakers, and the Greatest Music ever played, the same Music you have listened to for years!\" it will feature die-hard Lee Greenwood (again), with \"one of the Greatest Hits of All Time,\" his 1984 _God Bless the U.S.A,_ after which he will introduce \"a fine and highly dignified gentleman known as President DONALD J. TRUMP!” __\n\nThere's more: The \"amazing\" opera singer Christopher Macchio, who has just 571 listeners on _Spotify_ _,_ will join in.__ \"Not since the legendary Luciano Pavarotti has there been such a voice!” bragged Trump, though Pavarotti’s family has protested his use of the opera great's songs by arguing, \"The values of brotherhood and solidarity which Luciano Pavarotti expressed throughout (his) artistic career are entirely incompatible with the worldview offered by Trump.” Also, the U.S. Army Band, Armed Forces Choir and \"The President’s Own United States Marine Band\" will perform “all your favorite Hits.\" Observers say the gig \"sounds lame as fuck,\" but MAGA fans who go to every rally \"like Deadheads with less weed and more racism\" will probs love it.\n\nAmidst other glad  fails - even UFC fighters have trashed him with _Star Wars_ rants of \"Darth Vader gonna get took (sic) down\" - many deem a more apt celebration of America's birthday the June 4 and 5 concerts in New Jersey by Springsteen and many fellow musicians. The guest list is so vast and illustrious - among them, Bon Jovi, Jackson Browne, Rosanne Cash, Kenny Chesney, Tom Morello, Gary Clark Jr., Dion, Dropkick Murphys, Shemekia Copeland, Keb’ Mo’, Nils Lofgren, Valerie June, Darlene Love, Public Enemy, David Sancious, Tony Trischka, Sister Sadie, Mavis Staples, Trombone Shorty, Steve Van Zandt, Jimmie Vaughan, the New Breed Brass Band - it's assumed Bruce called in favors: \"They were beckoned, and graciously agreed.\"\n\nSpringsteen and the E Street Band just wrapped their _Land of Hope and Dreams_ _Tour -__\"__No Kings\"_ plastered below - in Philadelphia. Celebrating \"hope over fear,\" it featured his most fiery political songs: _B_ _orn in the USA, Death To My Hometown, No Surrender, Darkness On the Edge of Town,__Streets of Minneapolis, Dylan's Chimes of Freedom._ The two new concerts, titled _Music America: The Songs that Shaped Us,_ are likewise unabashedly rabble-rousing. Held in Springsteen's Jersey backyard at Monmouth University, they will also launch the new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music, which aims to preserve the Boss' legacy and offer \"a journey through American music history\" with ongoing exhibitions, archives and workshops.\n\nThis week's concerts, says Robert Santelli, \"reflect everything the Center stands for\" - the power of \"a rich and diverse treasury of American music (to) bring people together (and) the inspiration to think about our shared history in divisive times.\" Casting a wide and joyful net, artists perform landmark songs from American music - blues, bluegrass, Native, rock, hip-hop, folk, jazz, country, gospel. Tickets are reasonably priced for an intimate venue, and brief narration before each performance offers context to the artist, song, and genre. Thursday night reviews praised \"a magical, once-in-a-lifetime moment in music history\" and a nod to \"how powerful music is in telling our nation’s story.\" Both concerts sold out.\n\nBruce and the _D_ _ropkick Murphys'_ rousing rendition of __ American Land, based on a 19th-century poem by an immigrant steelworker, which asks and celebrates those \"who will make his home in the American Land.\" In brief, all of us.\n\n_The McNicholases, the Posalskis, the Smiths, Zerillis, too\nThe Blacks, the Irish, Italians, the Germans and the Jews\nThey come across the water a thousand miles from home\nWith nothing in their bellies but the fire down below._\n\n> See on Instagram",
  "title": "We'll Make Our Home In the American Land"
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