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Trump-backed youth sports contest doubles as a high-profile test of patriotism and Freedom 250 branding

Trump’s Patriot Games are billed as a youth sports contest. They’re also a test of patriotic branding | CNN Politics

The premise sounds almost fictional: one boy and one girl from every state, territory and some tribal nations, flown to a private campus in Ohio to compete in a televised athletic contest called the Patriot Games — a Trump-backed youth competition with obstacle courses, patriotic testimonials and inevitable comparisons to The Hunger Games.

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