America 250 celebrates with contestants nearly puking pancakes

The syrup was real. The dignity was imitation.

Trump’s Great American State Fair has moved past empty booths, busted rides, and a cow named Melania into its next phase of patriotic pageantry: people gagging through a pancake-eating contest.

Nothing could be more on brand for Trump. Promise the nation greatness, build a sad fair, fail at electricity, deploy livestock branding, then ask a few poor soul…