Is DC okay?

This looks more like an attack than a fireworks show.

— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) 2026-07-05T16:31:51.163Z

incompetence, unqualified, dumb and dumber, greedy, et al are the qualifications for work in shithole’s sphere.

… the one that set the Brooklyn Bridge on fire?

(wink)

https://apnews.com/article/fireworks-brooklyn-bridge-b33731a50f23433644bd8a879dcffc75

When the people in charge of decisions lack care, concern, or an ability to understand cause and effect, e.g., connect the dots on any matter, we aren't surprised.

We must end this fiasco of ignorance by steamrolling the clowns behind this circus (and others). Vanquish them. Doing so will prove to be the instructive legacy of this grotesquely excessive spectacle.

the rain will push even a small town display's smoke back to the ground. to be fair the weather had a part in fucking up the fuckhead's plans. though there is no reason whatsoever to be fair to him.

The thing that made the Big Bay Boom misfire event so spectacular was the 7k fireworks all went off over 90 seconds.
That was a damn cool, albeit short and alarmingly loud, fireworks show.
I remember seeing most of it from my back porch, figuring out what was going on, and hoping no one had gotten hurt.
By the time the smoke started collecting. it was pretty much over.

If it had been planned, and we had tried to then do the same thing 8 more times, you wouldn't be able to see a damn thing by the time the third set finished, even with a reliable wind disbursing smoke.

Anyone who ever been part of a professional fireworks show planning (maybe someone in the US Parks Department?) could have given the Palm Beach "Florida's Best Fireworks and Ammo" shop owner and GOP donor the organizers obviously chose to run the show some real advice on how to stage the show, even if they had to delay it a day instead of waiting until midnight to recreate the British attack on DC in 1812.

than any fireworks show I've seen in person. Fireworks make smoke. That's how it works.

Looks a lot different.

it doesn't look any different than any other show *I* have seen.

of his catheter to his right hand, lied about the size of the crowd, had so many fireworks that the smoke was so thick you couldn't see the display, fell asleep during the fireworks, and then left the metro D.C. area with so much air pollution that people were told not to go outside this AM.

GOOD JOB DONNY!

Is this all just me? This is insanity.

A better show would have had more diversity in height etc.

Ever.

Oops...looks like this display may have beat the Philipines.

Maybe Trump thinks he will get a Nobel prize?

And it's not the first time smoke has obscured the DC Fourth of July fireworks. In particular, in 2016, PBS took a lot of criticism for substituting previously recorded fireworks in place of the DC fireworks display that was obscured by smoke.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pbs-apologizes-editing-live-fireworks-during-july-4-broadcast-n604176