After weeks of controversy and backlash, Vanilla Ice's "Freedom 250" concert didn't even happen at all.
You already knew that the "Great American State Fair" is underway on Washington, DC's National Mall — and that most of the announced slate of performers for the affiliated "Freedom 250" concerts have since dropped out...
For, uh, obvious reasons.
One of the only performers who stuck around on the bill was the one and only Vanilla Ice — because who wouldn't want to watch an entire concert from a guy who's only famous for one song?
"I'm here to party with America, man. Music is made to bring people together, and that's what we're here to do," he said last month while defending his planned performance. "I don't think that it should be about any political thing or anything like that. I don't even vote so I don't even care."
"If Biden called up and said, 'My daughter's getting married. We need Vanilla Ice,' I'd go play. It's not a big thing. You play for your fans. We don't get a chance to pick our fans. They pick us."
As it turns out, another thing Vanilla Ice didn't get to pick was whether or not he was playing the event itself — because an hour and a half before the show itself, the Freedom 250 Twitter account announced that his performance was canceled due to "inclement weather."
According to Variety, however, the threat of "inclement weather" never quite arrived. "Weather sites show no measurable rain showed up in Washington during the evening," the publication reports, while also noting that an NBC4 weather forecaster also said going into last night, “It’s not like widespread thunderstorms moving through; we’re really not having any concern for severe weather."
As you can imagine, people had plenty of jokes to spare about the whole debacle:
Here's a truth nuke for ya:
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