How Trump’s ‘amateur’ C-list concerts collapsed

Those charged with organising celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence seemed to think that the United States’s semiquincentennial ought to be marked by a group of C-listers from the 1980s and Nineties. The Great American State Fair concert series was, we were told, going to “feature main-stage performances by legendary artists” in the heart of Washington DC over the next month.