Dean Cain hits back after his State Fair photo sparks low attendance claims
Superman actor Dean Cain has pushed back against claims that a photo he posted from President Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” showed low attendance, insisting that “there were thousands of people there.”
Cain, known for his role as Clark Kent in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, posted a picture showing the “view from atop the Ferris Wheel at the Great American State Fair!” on Saturday.
The photo looks down over the National Mall toward the Washington Monument. It shows the fairgrounds lined with white exhibition tents and scattered groups of people walking or standing across a large central lawn, with no obvious crowding visible from the vantage point.
Attendance at Trump’s Great American State Fair, a White House-backed festival on the National Mall marking America’s 250th anniversary, has become a political flashpoint. Since the event opened last week, critics have pointed to photos and videos they say show sparse crowds, while Trump and his allies have insisted turnout has been strong, with the president claiming as many as 45,000 people attended the kickoff rally on Wednesday night. Newsweek has contacted the White House, via email outside of normal working hours, for comment.
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican and CNN political commentator who became one of Donald Trump’s most prominent GOP critics after the January 6 Capitol attack, commented on Cain’s photo, saying: “Hahahaha dude this is not the picture to show. All 6 people.”
Cain responded: “There were thousands of people there and all around DC today, Adam. Why do you wish it was empty? That seems odd…”
Replying to someone else’s question about attendance, Cain, who last year said he was joining Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said: “Tons of people — but not just sitting on the grass… it’s hot outside! That’s only a ‘partial’ view.”
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