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Reporter flags Trump’s ‘Hunger Games-style’ kids competition as next odd D.C. spectacle
A political correspondent flagged Trump's "Hunger Games-style" competition as auditions began for kids who will compete.
During an episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, Farrah Tomazin wrapped a conversation about Trump's D.C. beautification projects and spectacles, like the Great American State Fair, by pointing to the next big events he has planned in the nation's capital.
Even though July 4 has passed, "more America 250 spectacles are going on very soon," like an Indy car race and an event Trump is calling the "Patriot Games." It involves bringing together kids from around the country to compete against each other.
"Keep your eye out for this," Tomazin said about the Patriot Games. "It's essentially a Hunger Games-style event."
She was evoking the famous Hunger Games franchise from books and movies, where kids from a dystopian world fight to the death.
"This will not include death and destruction or the like," Tomazin said about the Patriot Games. "But it's basically getting kids from different schools to compete in the nation's capital for a made-for-TV ESPN spectacle."
According to Tomazin, "auditions" to recruit kids to compete in the Patriot Games are "going on at the moment," and the Trump-backed Freedom 250, which organized the Great American State Fair, has "called for auditions where you have to provide an audition tape."
She also compared it to America's Got Talent, the reality competition show, as kids "have to provide them with an audition tape to talk about yourself and how much you love the country, and then you'll get to go to the nation's capital and compete in some sort of Patriot Games."
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Trump biographer Michael Wolff argues Trump’s marriage is struggling
Trump biographer Michael Wolff argued First Lady Melania Trump has become an unnervingly unpredictable force within the White House that administration insiders cannot manage or predict.
In his Substack newsletter HOWL, Wolff writes, "Of all the self-dealing among Trump family members, Melania's moves—not just about money, but about calling attention to herself—are seen as most disturbing to the White House, and most in danger of putting her on a collision course with the president."
According to the Daily Beast, Wolff claimed the couple barely speaks and maintains little pretense that Melania resides at the White House full-time, spending most time in New York.
He characterized Melania as "a wild card that he can't seem to control or even game."
“Almost nobody near Trump—including Trump himself—knows Melania’s moves until she makes them,” Wolff writes.
Financial disclosures show Melania earned $10.71 million from her documentary despite it earning only $16.7 million worldwide, plus roughly $521,000 from her memoir.
White House spokesman Davis Ingle dismissed Wolff, cursing him off.
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