{"id":689363,"date":"2026-06-07T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689363\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:04:08","slug":"bill-maher-says-artists-quitting-freedom-250-concert-makes-it-look-like-dems-dont-love-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/689363\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher says artists quitting Freedom 250 concert makes it look like Dems ‘don’t love America’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Maher ripped the musicians who dropped out of the President Trump-affiliated Freedom 250 concert series<\/a>, arguing the move makes it look like Democrats \u201cdon\u2019t really love America.\u201d<\/p>\n

The backlash came after several performers \u2014 including Martina McBride, Bret Michaels, The Commodores, Morris Day, C+C Music Factory and Young MC \u2014 pulled out of the Great American State Fair festivities in Washington, D.C., claiming they were misled about the event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all pulled out,\u201d Maher said during Friday\u2019s episode of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time.\u201d \u201cThis is a question about what looks best for the Democrats, because I don\u2019t think that looks good.<\/p>\n

Bill Maher said artists who quit the Trump-affiliated Freedom 250 event make Dems look like they \u201cdon\u2019t love America.\u201d Real Time with BillMaher<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like you are just what people say about you, you don\u2019t really love America. It looks [like] you think Trump is more important than the country itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maher argued that the performers made a mistake by abandoning the event celebrating America\u2019s 250th birthday and said their exit only turned it into a full-blown \u201cMAGA rally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow it\u2019s just a big MAGA rally, this whole thing,\u201d he said. \u201cNow it\u2019s Trump and Lee Greenwood.<\/p>\n

\u201cWouldn\u2019t it have been better to play this gig? Can\u2019t we all just celebrate America itself and leave Trump out of it?\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump revealed Thursday which performers he has lined up for the celebration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey all pulled out,\u201d Maher said, arguing the event has turned into a \u201cbig MAGA rally\u201d with Trump and Lee Greenwood. Real Time with BillMaher<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want singers with no talent, but big fees to put you to sleep, we\u2019ve told them all to stay home,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we want is you, me, a few speakers, and the Greatest Music ever played, the same Music you have listened to for years!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said country singer Lee Greenwood will introduce him with a performance of \u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump unveiled a new Freedom 250 lineup featuring Lee Greenwood, Christopher Macchio and military bands. WireImage<\/p>\n

The president also touted tenor Christopher Macchio, who is slated to perform \u201cNessun Dorma,\u201d \u201cHallelujah,\u201d \u201cAve Maria,\u201d \u201cGod Bless America\u201d and other songs.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot since the legendary Luciano Pavarotti has there been such a voice!\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

Trump added that the US Army Band, Armed Forces Choir, US Marine Band and Joint Armed Forces Chorus will perform \u201call of your favorite Hits.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Freedom 250 concert series is set to take over the National Mall from June 25 through July 10. AP Photo\/John McDonnell<\/p>\n

\u201cPLUS a fine and highly dignified gentleman known as, President DONALD J. TRUMP\u201d will speak at the rally, he added.<\/p>\n

Freedom 250, created by a Trump executive order<\/a> to help commemorate America\u2019s 250th birthday, previously announced Vanilla Ice<\/a>, Flo Rida and Milli Vanilli\u2019s Fab Morvan among its original lineup.<\/p>\n

The free concert series is set to take over the National Mall from June 25 through July 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bill Maher ripped the musicians who dropped out of the President Trump-affiliated Freedom 250 concert series, arguing the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[57362,10161,51542,7069,4515,12,88,103324,292933,10815,292807,92,240241,5832],"class_list":["post-689363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-america-250","tag-bill-maher","tag-bret-michaels","tag-concert","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-flo-rida","tag-martina-mcbride","tag-media","tag-milli-vanilli","tag-tv","tag-vanilla-ice","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}