A fiery debate broke out between a CNN anchor and a MAGA-defending correspondent who warned about "Chinese babies." CNN anchor Abby Phillip hosted a panel discussion about calls from MAGA to stop immigrants from having children in the United States. The MAGA line comes after the Supreme Court blocked Trump's effort to end birthright citizenship.She had the panel react to a line from Trump legal adviser Mike Davis, where he called on the administration to shift its focus from mass deportations to "going to get these pregnant women the hell out of our country, women and women who could be pregnant."Phillip called suggestions of changing birthright citizenship via an executive order "bad politics, bad optics, maybe both," when New York Post correspondent Lydia Moynihan stepped in to defend the MAGA point of view."We already know that foreign adversaries are exploiting this," Moynihan said. "There's been 1.5 million Chinese CCP babies who have been born on U.S. soil.""I've never seen the number be that high," Phillip said. "Are you talking about Chinese nationals who have come here?""Yes," Moynihan said. "That's an issue that we know our foreign adversaries are exploiting.""Do you realize that not all of them are here to give birth?" Phillip responded.Moynihan continued on about how Chinese immigrants "exploit" birth tourism, and talked over Phillip, whom she accused of trying to "argue the numbers.""You're saying all of the 1.5 million people of Chinese heritage are coming for the sole purpose of utilizing our social services?" Phillip asked, having to talk over Moynihan as she demanded, "Do you want people whose parents are CCP citizens, who grew up in China, to come here and vote?""There are plenty of people who have parents of foreign citizenship, who are American citizens and do in fact have the right to vote," Phillip responded. "They might be from China, they might be from Russia, they might be from England, they might be from anywhere in the world. That is not illegal, to have parents from another country."
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One of President Donald Trump’s favorite shows, “Fox & Friends,” is pulling up stakes after just days of promoting his Great American State Fair, a 16-day event to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday.According to The Daily Beast, the conservative morning TV show “is back in the studio” after two days, which “it spent talking up over live shots of empty grass.”One of President Donald Trump’s favorite shows, “Fox & Friends,” is pulling up stakes after just days of promoting his Great American State Fair, a 16-day event to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday.According to The Daily Beast, the conservative morning TV show “is back in the studio” after two days, which “it spent talking up over live shots of empty grass.”Wednesday morning, the “Fox & Friends” studio was packed with “an audience of first responders, veterans, and their families” as the hosts returned to the indoor set, The Daily Beast noted.“We’ve been away for 48 hours. They’ve been waiting for us to return. We appreciate it,” co-host Brian Kilmeade declared.Trump had claimed that 45,000 people turned out for his kickoff speech, but Fox News’ cameras “blew apart the president’s boasts.”As did photographs from Reuters, The Daily Beast reported, with them “showing nowhere near the numbers the president had touted.”“The network’s live shots from the Mall repeatedly framed wide stretches of empty grass behind its anchors, The Daily Beast added. “On other mornings, the walkways and booths behind the set sat all but empty. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, 28, turned up on the show Monday to gush about the fair with a bare lawn.”On Tuesday, USA Today opinion columnist Rex Huppke wrote, “I love President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair. I love its emptiness. It’s expensive food. Its ability to confound Trump-friendly media outlets that keep pretending it’s going great.”“I love seeing Fox News broadcasting from the fair, its hosts claiming the place is filled with excited patriots while the scenes behind them show a vast expanse of untrod-upon grass with an occasional few humans milling along the fringes.”Huppke said it was “like watching your high school bully host a party that no one attends. It’s a daily humiliation for a wildly unpopular president who coopted what should be a unifying national celebration and turned it into repellent schlock.”
President Donald Trump is furious that his supporters aren't showing up to attend his "state fair" in the District of Columbia. Since the start last week, the response has been minuscule. Independent journalist Amanda Moore has been on the scene every day to narrate what she's seeing and provide videos of the crowd sizes at the great stage. The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday that Trump "freaked out" seeing the small crowds at his fair. One of the more successful turnouts was Trump's rally opening night. Compared to Trump's rallies in the past, however, it was painfully tiny. While the Freedom 250 spokesperson claimed that there have ben over 150,000 who "flocked" from around the world, CNN revealed things aren't going the way Trump planned. Insiders told CNN that Trump was “livid” at the low turnout for his opening remarks.All the events lead up to Trump's big event on Saturday. The Washingtonian noted that Trump's record-breaking fireworks display will be so gigantic that the low-lying Washington D.C. "bowl" and predicted cloud cover could turn it into more of a "smoke show" and block the fireworks entirely. As the Capital Weather Gang said, the smoke could "just ... hang." Trump had a similar problem on the night of his first inauguration, when heavy cloud cover not only trapped the smoke but also blocked views of the fireworks, videos confirmed There are a lot of things working against his crowd-size plans: predicted triple-digit temperatures that have already resulted in an "extreme heat watch," stifling humidity and potential severe storms, local WJAR reported Wednesday. They called it a "quadruple threat" because of the risk of power outages from energy use. "This could be one of the hottest Fourth of Julys the D.C. area has seen in decades, as emergency officials ramp up coordination ahead of the holiday," the report said. According to CNN, the White House is "already bracing for an underwhelming showing" on Saturday, in large part because the event is significantly later than previous years. In the past, the big concert in the U.S. ended around 9 p.m. EST, with the National Symphony Orchestra playing the "1812 Overture" while fireworks and cannons went off. This year it will end hours later. “I do not understand why we are doing this so late,” one White House official said about the late hour. “I’m really not sure who thought this was a good idea.”The Independence Day fireworks are normally a family-friendly event and children don't usually stay up so late. At the same time, public transportation for those more than 20 miles outside of D.C. will be restricted because the last MARC train out of Union Station leaves at 10:25 p.m. Luckily, those within about a 20-mile radius around Washington will still be able to access the metro until 2 a.m.One local D.C. limousine company wrote, "Every transportation option has a real failure mode on this day.""OK, this is quickly becoming proof that you can just say “great American state fair” and get a million views. Almost nobody replying to it follows me or has any idea what I cover," said independent Amanda Moore online about the state fair. She wasn't the only one to point out that social media doesn't reflect "real life." Stand Together vice president Daniel Bassali called it "Just another example of what’s online isn’t reality."TMZ has been posting photos of the fair. In one case, actor Dean Cain and Dr. Mehmet Oz cheered the crowd before the stage. TMZ panned around to look at the crowd, seeing a few dozen people. Trump proclaimed over the weekend that his event was “packed with happy people," but rain scared off key performer and one-hit-wonder Vanilla Ice from performing. Fox News has provided a lot of comedy relief for those watching clips of the anchors claiming huge crowds, only to look behind them and see they're anemic at best. One pro-Trump fan live-streamed their attendance at the fair, also claiming thousands of people, only to find far fewer. At one point, the network was ridiculed for showing a medium-sized crowd sitting on the grass watching a big screen. The Fox chyron read, "State Fair Surprise: Karoline Leavitt enjoys fair with her family." The photo was of World Cup fans at the FIFA Fan Zone in Washington instead. FIFA set up large screens in cities around the U.S. for fans who want to watch the games with a group of other fans. The fan zone is also on the National Mall. Two sources told CNN that Trump "flipped" when he saw the low turnout at the state fair, and staff were even told to delete the photos from social media in hopes he wouldn't see them.“The mistake here was not driving attendance,” said one person close to the White House. “It was an ‘if you build it, they will come’ mentality that failed.”Dozens of people walked out of Trump's speech at the fair's opening.
White House staff are reportedly concerned that Donald Trump’s Fourth of July rally is a recipe for disaster—one that will send the president into yet another meltdown. The remarkably low turnout for Trump’s Great American State Fair has sparked serious worries that the president’s massive rally planned for Saturday will also be a dud, multiple sources told CNN Wednesday. The rally is scheduled to take place outside on the National Mall, as temperatures in Washington are forecast to reach a stifling 100 degrees. One official familiar with the event told CNN that there would likely be large groups of people who reserved tickets for Trump’s address but don’t end up attending. Empty seats means that viewers are likely in for another presidential temper tantrum—a sorry sight given it will be the country’s 250th anniversary. The rally will be punctuated by a massive fireworks display, currently scheduled to begin at 11 p.m. Unlike in past years, attendees will not be able to bring coolers to help beat the heat. “I do not understand why we are doing this so late,” one White House official told CNN, adding there were still ongoing efforts to fix the timing. “I’m really not sure who thought this was a good idea.”So far, Trump’s Great American State Fair has been supremely underwhelming and beset by technical difficulties, lame programming, and disappointing weather delays. Trump has raged in the face of bad reviews and lied about the visibly low attendance.Internally, those in Trump’s orbit have begun pointing fingers about the president’s own Fyre Festival (except people actually went to the Fyre Festival). “The mistake here was not driving attendance,” one person close to the White House told CNN. “It was an ‘if you build it, they will come’ mentality that failed.”
