This was totally preventable. The Smithsonian has an extended folklife festival on the Mall every year during the summer. They know how to do these things. Any decent party planner knows how to do these things. But Trump’s ‘friends’ at Freedom 250 have no clue. It was obvious at least a week ago that there needed to be special precautions taken for the extraordinary heat. It appears that the Freedom 250 planners did not take them.
There is already an air quality alert for DC. Imagine what it will be like tomorrow during Trump’s flyovers and after the massive fireworks. If I lived in DC I’d get out.
Yes, the MAGAts are stupid for showing up, but they're tourists and most tourists are pretty oblivious. I doubt Fox News alerted them to potential dangers. Even if they did, I’m sure they felt confident that Papa Trump would take care of them. They probably think that they’re being patriotic in their own inimitable way. Some people have to learn through hard experience.
I just hope that once this fiasco is over there is an investigation into this whole thing and that people are held accountable. It will be unnecessarily prolonged and painful, but it needs to be done.
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