Kash Patel girlfriend to perform at Trump rally marking America 250th kickoff

Country singer Alexis Wilkins, the girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, on Tuesday announced that she will perform at a rally for President Trump that will kick off the celebrations leading up to America’s 250th birthday.

Wilkins wrote on the social platform X that it is a “great honor” to perform at the Great American State Fair on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., set up by the Trump administration’s Freedom 250 organization, which differs from the nonprofit semiquincentennial commission America250.

She returned to X a few hours later to defend herself in response to criticism over her performing at the event after reporter Sara Higdon questioned whether paying the FBI director’s girlfriend with taxpayer money violates federal ethics laws.

Wilkins wrote that she was “invited to sing this anthem on my own accord” and that she is “not accepting payment for this great honor.”

“The Freedom250 entire celebration is on a fundraising arm; neither UFC nor any National Mall celebrations are ‘taxpayer funded’ (you would think, as a journalist, this would be something she would know or at least look into) I’m no longer accepting false narratives and total sham accusations that diminish my hard work and earned accomplishments, so please expect this kind of response to continue,” the singer responded.

Wilkins’s slated performance comes after most of the state fair’s musical acts withdrew over concerns about the event being politicized or connected to Trump. Musicians like Martina McBride, The Commodores, Bret Michaels and “Bust a Move” rapper Young MC said “no” to performing after previously signing up to take part in the fair’s concert.

Lee Greenwood, the country singer behind “God Bless the USA,” and opera singer Christopher Macchio have also since been added to the shrunken roster of musicians. Flo Rida and Vanilla Ice are the only acts from the original line-up still set to perform.

Trump, who previously suggested cancelling the concert altogether, is also expected to take to the stage. He sent out a reminder post to his followers on Truth Social on Wednesday about a “Big Rally tonight on the National Mall. Fantastic Music!!! MAGA!!! FUN!!!”

Last month, he accused the artists who pulled out of being “third rate” and suggested he would be the show-stealer.

“I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, the man who loves our Country more than anyone else, and the man who some say is the Greatest President in History,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.