A View of the National Mall from the Washington Monument Credit: 54conphotos / Wikimedia ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) The Freedom 250 concert series, pitched as a "Great American State Fair" to take place on the National Mall over 16 days in July, looks like an enjoyable American birthday boozathon featuring a variety of contemporary and oldschool musical acts. When its Trump connections became clear, though, the scheduled acts started dropping off the roster . To quote Ernest Hemingway, it happened slowly, then all at once. Now even Bret Michaels doesn't want to be seen there. Artists including Young MC, Morris Day, the Commodores, Poison frontman Bret Michaels and country singer Martina McBride have all since said they will not be participating. The organiser, Freedom 250, has denied the fair is politically affiliated, and said that while it respected artists' decisions to withdraw, it is non-partisan. It has said it is a nonprofit "dedicated to uniting Americans around the nation's 250th anniversary".…