Alaska's vacant booth at Trump's state fair flop
Behold the sad spectacle of the Alaska booth at Trump’s state fair.
As someone said on Reddit, “That rug really tied the room together, did it not?”
I think what really ties the room together is the tattered rug and the vacant stool with a piece of paper on it, perhaps a flyer proclaiming the Trump Golden Age of Alaska.
The dozens of Republican candidates for governor—all of whom wanted the others to surrender—could have taken turns putting their posters on the loneliest stool in D.C. Or the governor could have contributed an empty suit for the empty booth.
Someone else said, “Nothing says ‘North to the Future’ better than a too-small floral ruggable in random colors that completely clash with the red, white and blue poster!”
Walter Sobchak, aka John Goodman
The images appear to have been assembled by someone who was clearly out of his element and failed to include an image of the Arctic Bowl, a cannabis store or Walter Sobchak. There’s no ethos.
The only good thing is that whoever created this smorgasburg of tropes, cliches and internet memes identified the mountain as Denali, blissfully unware of Trump’s McKinley edict.
“Well, this is embarrassing,” another Reddit contributor said. “As someone who sets up vendor spaces on a regular basis, an important rule is no rugs because they are notorious tripping hazards.”
The rug in question appears to be a prized selection from the Salvation Army collection. Or it could have been donated by Mr. Lebowski.
“This booth looks like it cost about $39.99,” a comedian said.
Others said it looks like a Budweiser box or an ad campaign for Alaska Airlines. To be fair, it looks more like a kaleidoscope slapped together by preschoolers with a hyperactive instructor.
The designers who threw assorted images at their computer screens to see what would stick did not have lots of ideas.
When the Trump fair mercifully ends, the Alaska booth should be plopped down next to the replica of the battered “Into the Wild” bus in Healy. It’s not worthy of a place in the sorriest of state fairs in Alaska.
Here is the sad spectacle of the Maine booth, which doesn’t have a rug, but two comfortable chairs and the same attempt to cram 10 pounds of local color into a 6-pound bag. Note that Maine has bigger seafood.
