Open for three hours every afternoon of convention week, Convention Fest featured many small businesses as well as groups. A lot of the businesses were selling food and drink. Many others were selling Trump stuff.
The United States Concealed Carry Association had a lot of space inside and outside of Baird. Among other things it said: “Girls Just Wanna Have Guns” and “Pro-Gun is Pro-Woman.”
Two men were selling a lengthy book entitled The Collected Poems of Donald J. Trump for $45. They had collected Trump’s tweets and reordered them into poems! Volume I was released in 2019, to give a “glimpse into the mind and musings of one of America's most iconic figures.” Volume II is coming out this fall. One of the editors told me that they wanted to see DJT made the poet laureate of the United States, as well as President. Could Trump appoint himself?
The Nixon Foundation created a War Memorial Center in a large room in the Baird Center. It contained several panels on women veterans saying WE ARE NOT INVISIBLE.
The Wisconsin Historical Society had a room nearby, with panels on woman suffrage. There were other subjects, but women’s activism was well represented.
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