Trump’s 250th Anniversary Spectacle Is Giving Fyre Festival Vibes | Behind the Numbers w Rick Wilson

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]We had a question in the in the production chat about the 250th anniversary celebration um and how it will affect Trump's polling.

[00:00:09]>> Um [snorts] you know >> It's going to be it's going to go down because he's going to he's going to be [laughter] he's going to be a jerk.

[00:00:14]>> Yeah, he's going to I this is you know another distraction.

[00:00:18]People people view it as a distraction and it gets categorized as you know the ballroom, the arch, the pool and and all the DC beautification nonsense that he's been doing. Um >> Yeah.

[00:00:32]>> No nobody It doesn't benefit anybody outside of DC. Um >> And and honestly it's so it's so like low rent um Fire Festival feeling about it right now. You know the UFC fight and the and and maybe maybe Vanilla Ice still performs. We don't know. It's it's all all the rest of people are out.

[00:00:55]>> I I I I I keep wondering. I really hope and pray that Kid Rock got an invitation to >> You know I I mean without without what would America be on its 250th anniversary?

[00:01:07]>> Uh I mean I'm I I wouldn't be surprised if he was headlining the show. I mean I'm sure he's going to make an appearance.

[00:01:14]Um let's just hope he's not drinking any milk with our president.

[00:01:18]>> Right. Yeah.

[00:01:19]>> I don't need to see that again.

[00:01:20]>> Or or flying in helicopters.

[00:01:22]Um yeah, let's look at this uh we we the the uh Fire Festival is down. Bret Michaels is out now, too.

[00:01:29]>> Flo Rida >> Yeah, Vanilla Ice and Flo Rida.

[00:01:33]>> Oh man.

[00:01:34]>> And I don't think Flo is going to stick with it, either.

[00:01:36]>> I hope not.

[00:01:37]>> Uh you know >> [laughter] >> Uh again, once again, folks Donald Trump wants to command the culture and Republicans are they deep in the Republican soul they're like I hate Hollywood. I hate celebrities. I hate them. I hate them. They love them.

[00:01:53]They're obsessed with them. They desperately want their own celebrities and those people uh bless them. They're all folks from the '80s and '90s and and early 2000s and they're they're not they're not >> relevant.

[00:02:09]>> [laughter] >> They're not relevant.

[00:02:10]I'm trying to be as nice as I can.

[00:02:12]>> I mean God knows I You don't see them on TikTok.

[00:02:15]>> No, you do not.

[00:02:17]>> You don't see them online. I mean it's just and and and you know, when they're scraping the barrel for influencers, it's kind of a sign that that uh everything from 2024 collapsed.

[00:02:27]Um you know, the influencers were really important part of Trump's campaign. Um and you're not seeing those names that you saw on the campaign trail in 2024.

[00:02:35]They're just not there. They're you know, Tony Hinchcliffe, the guy who made that >> Right.

[00:02:39]>> uh Puerto Rico comment. Um >> Right. Theo Von >> Theo Von. Uh Rogan is even Rogan is even, you know, mild.

[00:02:47]>> Rogan is sort of qualifiedly anti-Trump these days.

[00:02:51]>> Uh somewhat, I would say.

[00:02:53]>> Somewhat.

[00:02:53]>> Yeah. Um so he's still >> He's still a sort of like conspiracy but okay.

[00:02:59]>> [laughter] >> But, you know, he he's lost a lot of these people who were really important for um the the young male uh demographic. And the the problem with that is he's lost them, but the Republican Party hasn't retained them either.

[00:03:14]Um so, you know, it's another one of those pieces of the foundation that's falling off.

[00:03:18]>> Right. Right. Right. And and as much as that white male 18 to 30 what I call the fish back demo um is is kind of weirdly they're kind of weirdly Hitler-curious.

[00:03:32]Well, that that Austrian fellow had some good ideas.

[00:03:36]Why they're just not that engaged when Trump's not at the top of the ticket.

[00:03:40]>> Don't care.

[00:03:41]>> They're just not that excited about it.

[00:03:43]>> Nope.

[00:03:44]>> But but Democrats, that does not mean that they that they have become AOC progressives. Please bear this in mind.

[00:03:50]I mean please.