--- title: Trump Announces ‘Rally to End All Rallies’ After Artists Pull Out of 250th Anniversary Concerts description: Here's what we know so far about the rally and who is set to participate. canonical: https://time.com/article/2026/06/05/trump-rally-america-250th-anniversary-performers/ author: Chantelle Lee article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-06-05T21:39:02.339Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-05T21:39:02.531Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Trump Announces ‘Rally to End All Rallies’ After Artists Pull Out of 250th Anniversary Concerts og:description: Here's what we know so far about the rally and who is set to participate. og:url: https://time.com/article/2026/06/05/trump-rally-america-250th-anniversary-performers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcccea5ae715ed2eb/6a233c9b1098ac0cbec2a200/Trump-America250-Rally.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Trump-America250-Rally.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Announces ‘Rally to End All Rallies’ After Artists Pull Out of 250th Anniversary Concerts twitter:description: Here's what we know so far about the rally and who is set to participate. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcccea5ae715ed2eb/6a233c9b1098ac0cbec2a200/Trump-America250-Rally.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump Announces ‘Rally to End All Rallies’ After Artists Pull Out of 250th Anniversary Concerts > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump speaks during a "Beautiful, Clean Coal" event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 4, 2026.Kevin Dietsch—Getty Images by [Chantelle Lee](https://time.com/author/chantelle-lee/) ## Chantelle Lee Reporter Jun 5, 2026 9:39 PM UTC President Donald Trump has announced “A Rally to end all Rallies” to take place in Washington, D.C., as part of the celebration of [America’s 250th birthday](https://time.com/7309114/ufc-fight-white-house/) after a number of performers [pulled out](https://time.com/article/2026/05/29/great-america-state-fair-america-250-artists-concert-pull-out-young-mc-martina-mcbride/) of a concert series planned to mark the anniversary. “We will be bringing you, LIVE, the Greatest Rally, EVER! It will be special at every level — A Rally to end all Rallies!” Trump said in a Thursday post on [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116694027873070210) in which he shared details of the rally. “We don’t want singers with no talent, but big fees to put you to sleep, we’ve told them all to stay home. All we want is you, me, a few speakers, and the Greatest Music ever played, the same Music you have listened to for years!” The rally will be held at 7 p.m. on June 24, a day before the start of “The Great American State Fair,” which is set to run from June 25 to July 10 as one of several events planned for the summer in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The President said that he would be in attendance. He also said that Lee Greenwood and Christopher Macchio would be performing, as would the U.S. Army Band, the Armed Forces Choir, the U.S. Marine Band, and the Joint Armed Forces Chorus. Little else is known about the newly announced rally, or who else may participate. Rapper Vanilla Ice, who the President didn’t mention in his post, said on [Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/video/6397589398112) on Thursday that he would like to perform at the event. “I hope so,” the rapper, also known as Robert Matthew Van Winkle, said when asked if he’ll be part of the rally. “I’m honored to even be invited for this. I’ll be there no matter what.” Vanilla Ice was one of nine musical artists who Freedom 250, the nonprofit group Trump created to organize his Administration’s celebration of the U.S.’s Semiquincentennial anniversary, announced last week as the “first wave” of performers for “The Great American State Fair.” But in the days after the announcement, many of those artists—including country singer-songwriter Martina McBride, Rapper Young MC, and American funk and soul group The Commodores—said they wouldn’t be performing at the event, accusing it of being [politically charged](https://time.com/article/2026/05/29/great-america-state-fair-america-250-artists-concert-pull-out-young-mc-martina-mcbride/). “I HAVE INFORMED MY AGENTS THAT I WILL NOT BE PERFORMING AT THE FREEDOM 250 EVENT,” Young MC said in a [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/youngmc89/posts/pfbid02wb1adzbfjoxj1vmrEnUkuzSL46hgjVfaVsX8GBik41VjEyqqnehdKDmvmkeXRmZjl) on May 27\. “The artists were never told about any political involvement with the event. And despite the claims by the organizers that the event is non-partisan, SPIN magazine describes it as Trump-backed. I hope to perform in D.C. in the near future at an event that is not so politically charged.” Vanilla Ice [said](https://www.instagram.com/reels/DY5RUsAp43x/) at the time that he would be “super honored” to participate in the concert series and still planned to do so. “This is not a political platform,” the rapper said in the caption of an [Instagram post](https://www.instagram.com/reels/DY5RUsAp43x/). “This is celebrating America’s birthday.” But with multiple other artists pulling out, Trump took to [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116666021445682015) on May 30 to slam those performers and suggested that the concerts should be canceled. “We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain,” he said. “Cancel it.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/06/05/trump-rally-america-250th-anniversary-performers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/06/05/trump-rally-america-250th-anniversary-performers/"},"headline":"Trump Announces ‘Rally to End All Rallies’ After Artists Pull Out of 250th Anniversary Concerts","datePublished":"2026-06-05T21:39:02.339Z","dateModified":"2026-06-05T21:39:02.531Z","description":"Here's what we know so far about the rally and who is set to participate.","url":"https://time.com/article/2026/06/05/trump-rally-america-250th-anniversary-performers/","keywords":["Trump Administration","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcccea5ae715ed2eb/6a233c9b1098ac0cbec2a200/Trump-America250-Rally.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chantelle Lee","jobTitle":"Reporter","url":"https://time.com/author/chantelle-lee/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcccea5ae715ed2eb/6a233c9b1098ac0cbec2a200/Trump-America250-Rally.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Trump-America250-Rally.jpg","caption":"","creditText":"Kevin Dietsch—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/trump-administration/","name":"Trump Administration"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/06/05/trump-rally-america-250th-anniversary-performers/","name":"Trump Announces ‘Rally to End All Rallies’ After Artists Pull Out of 250th Anniversary Concerts"}}]}] ```