Trump's Town Hall Turns Into Bizarre Listening Party
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Trump’s Town Hall Turns Into Bizarre Listening Party
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What began as a town hall with Donald Trump turned into a bizarre spectacle, as the former president hosted a 30-minute listening party featuring songs from artists who have previously threatened him with legal action.
The town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania on Monday night was repeatedly interrupted by medical emergencies, reportedly due to warm temperatures inside of the venue. Rather than continue to answer questions, Trump decided to instead play songs from his personal playlist, including Rufus Wainwright’s version of “Hallelujah,” Sinead O’Connor’s version of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond,” Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain,” and James Brown’s “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World.”
Also played were “Ave Maria,” “Memory” from the musical Cats , Elvis Presley’s “An American Trilogy,” Andrea Bocelli’s “Time to Say Goodbye,” and the Trump rally staple “YMCA.” As seen in clips posted to social media, Trump seemed to thoroughly enjoy the moment, as he bobbed his head, danced, and mouthed along to several song lyrics.
It is worth noting that several of the songs played were done so against the wishes of the artists behind them. Sinead O’Connor’s estate previously hit Trump’s campaign with a cease and desist in March, saying at the time that it would be “no exaggeration to say that Sinéad would have been disgusted, hurt and insulted to have her work misrepresented in this way.” Meanwhile, Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose has repeatedly lashed out against Trump on social media.
Trump’s Town Hall Turns Into Bizarre Listening Party
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The post Trump's Town Hall Turns Into Bizarre Listening Party appeared first on Consequence.
What began as a town hall with Donald Trump turned into a bizarre spectacle, as the former president hosted a 30-minute listening party featuring songs from artists who have previously threatened him with legal action.
The town hall in Oaks, Pennsylvania on Monday night was repeatedly interrupted by medical emergencies, reportedly due to warm temperatures inside of the venue. Rather than continue to answer questions, Trump decided to instead play songs from his personal playlist, including Rufus Wainwright's version of "Hallelujah," Sinead O'Connor's version of "Nothing Compares 2 U," Oliver Anthony's "Rich Men North of Richmond," Guns N' Roses' "November Rain," and James Brown's "It's A Man's Man's Man's World."
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Also played were "Ave Maria," "Memory" from the musical Cats , Elvis Presley's "An American Trilogy," Andrea Bocelli's "Time to Say Goodbye," and the Trump rally staple "YMCA." As seen in clips posted to social media, Trump seemed to thoroughly enjoy the moment, as he bobbed his head, danced, and mouthed along to several song lyrics.
It is worth noting that several of the songs played were done so against the wishes of the artists behind them. Sinead O'Connor's estate previously hit Trump's campaign with a cease and desist in March, saying at the time that it would be "no exaggeration to say that Sinead would have been disgusted, hurt and insulted to have her work misrepresented in this way." Meanwhile, Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose has repeatedly lashed out against Trump on social media.
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I can't believe no one is talking about this batshit crazy 'campaign' event.
It's Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
39 minutes of listening to random songs while watching Trump swaying back and forth on stage. You just can't make this shit up.
And Kristi Noem trying to make it look normal also ....fucking weird!
no need for trump to have a Q&A when he doesn't have any answers to attract new voters ...
When has he EVER answered a question? His rallies are nothing but whine fests where he complains about how poorly he's been treated.
I'm losing it - Trout Giggles posted a very similar article yesterday which I commented on, and I forgot.
Sorry TG.
I'll leave this up though just because it's so fucking weird though and I want to keep it alive a little longer.
no biggie ...
Look at the final comment and the unbelievable twisting some go to - to rationalize what that was - whatever that was was
I'm surprised he didnt pick the most beautiful woman in the audience to come on stage and dance with him, but I guess Ivanka wasnt there.
I've included Stephen Colbert's take on the event plus his entire monologue for the evening. I like this because it shows even more of the fucking moron's lunacy.
They are in a word, ''weird''....
the audience members all had to sign loyalty pledges and non-disclosure agreements ...
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Plenty of journalists have covered the fainting. The fact of those people fainting and Trump’s reaction makes it worse. You’d be better off hoping people ignore it.
Trump immediately declared these people to be alright when they hadn’t even been examined. Then he asked the crowd if anyone else felt like fainting, in a tone that sounded like he felt interrupted, or fainting is fun. He then responded to this medical emergency by having his people play his Ave Maria sampler tape, followed by YMCA. There were no more questions in this Town Hall, just Trump trying to turn it into a party. He’s out of his fucking mind.
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'hit piece' - lol
The first defender of the indefensible shows up
it's a real bummer that some maga relics can't stay conscious long enough to worship their lord and savior ...
Let’s all sit around and listen to Trump’s mix tape. What the actual fuck. People want to vote for this shit.
he's rapidly approaching a mix tape of musical selections only available in the public domain ...
he'll put one together and fucking morons will buy it
he should be the first to jump on the untapped trump/maga casket trend ... /s
lol - don't give him any ideas
It went on for 38 minutes!
Imagine what the response would be if this had been Harris.
... uh, mostly racist ...
Much of what Trump does would be seen as an automatic disqualifier for virtually any other politician. But to paraphrase Nixon, 'Well, when Trump does it, that means that it is not a disqualifier'. He leads a cult and whatever the cult leader says is okay, even if it's bat-shit crazy and totally abnormal, the cultists cling to it like its new biblical canon and is chalked up to their leader being 'unique' and 'special'. Let's face it, if the Democratic nominee was a 32 time convicted felon, accused of sexual assault by over two dozen women, had said on tape that he just "grabs" women he finds attractive "by the pussy", had openly called on one of America's foreign enemies to find dirt on the Republican candidate, had paid hundreds of thousands to keep multiple porn stars they'd had an affair with quiet during the campaign, and on top of it all had spent nearly 40 minutes of a town hall dancing like a fool on stage instead of answering any attendees questions, Republicans would be both laughing and outraged that the Democrats had fielded such a monumentally horrid candidate for President. But because he's their guy, they're sucking up to him and cheering him on as if everything's normal and it's the rest of America who must be crazy for not seeing the 'genius' in their candidate.
Totally agree.
It is hard to understand, but xenophobia, racism, anti-feminism, and anti 21st century , explains a lot of it.
It's like a customer of a weed dealer who got busted saying "Yeah, but weed should be legal, and this guy is MY weed dealer..." and then it comes out he was accused of sexually assaulting two dozen women "Yeah, but I mean, can we really believe all those women, I mean, is that really so wrong, and this guy is MY weed dealer..." and then it comes out that he was convicted of 34 felonies and his business partners were convicted of tax evasion and financial crimes, his charity was shut down for fraud and he's caught in dozens of lies to which his customers reply "Yeah, yeah, taxes shmaxes, felonies melonies, at least he had a charity, so what, this guy is MY weed dealer...".
As Trump said himself, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?".
One has to start to ask, is it Trump that's the problem? Or is it the slimy sycophant supporters who refuse to hold him to account because they simply HATE liberals and progressives SO FUCKING much that they would support a pile of dog shit for President if they felt that would irk those on the left?
I loved Desi Lydic's take on the Daily Show
We can forget about that picture of Michael Dukakis riding a tank.
This is unreal - this is someone's unreal response to the town hall q&a listening party.
They're really doing some unreal twisting about music and political campaigns and there is absolutely no mention about how fucking batshit crazy this whole event turned out to be.
Unfreakingbelieveable
Opinion - Trump’s music break may turn more voters than you think
Two fainting audience members abruptly interrupted Donald Trump’s recent overheated town hall in Pennsylvania. In response, Trump suddenly and surprisingly shifted from a Q&A format to a low-key dance party .
“Let’s not do any more questions,” Trump said. “Let’s just listen to music.”
This spontaneous decision may be unprecedented in campaign history , but the careful and strategic curation and deployment of playlists at campaign events is not.
Barack Obama famously walked on stage to U2’s “ City of Blinding Light .” His rhythmic chants of “Yes we can” flowed seamlessly into Stevie Wonder’s “ Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours .”
Bill Clinton, through the music of Fleetwood Mac, told people , “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.”
In the current campaign, Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris prompted her to play the feminist anthem, “ The Man ” at her rallies as she exited the stage . Donald Trump, in a perfect split-screen contrast, prefers James Brown’s “ It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World .”
What difference does the music actually make at these rallies? We intuitively know that the mood would be quite different if no music were played at all. But does the music serve another purpose? Does it affect the way people feel about candidates?
Based on psychological studies I performed during the 2016 election, the presence or absence of music makes a significant difference in the way people perceive political candidates.
In an unpublished 2016 study , I investigated whether campaign music affects how more than 300 participants felt about the two presidential candidates at the time, Hillary Clinton and Trump.
Control groups were randomly shown two minutes of Trump’s or Clinton’s convention speeches without the entry and exit music they selected for the event. The experimental groups watched the same footage, only with the entry and exit music included.
The Clinton campaign chose “ Fight Song ” by Rachel Platten, and the Trump campaign chose “ Nessun Dorma ,” a Puccini aria, sung by Luciano Pavarotti.
Each participant was asked several questions including whether the candidate “understands the needs of people like you,” whether they were honest, if they were perceived as a celebrity and how credible the candidates were on certain policy issues.
In nearly every case, participants exposed to the campaign music were more likely to feel that Clinton or Trump “understands the needs of people like you,” compared to those who heard no music with the speeches. Irrespective of their party affiliation, respondents who watched Clinton walk in to “Fight Song” perceived her as more credible on environmental issues.
There were some partisan variations. Democrats who watched Trump’s speech with the “Nessun Dorma” intro were less likely to believe that he understood their needs and more likely to think he was dishonest. Democrats who watched the Clinton speech with music saw her as more credible on the Cuban embargo, debt relief to the developing world, and environmental issues.
Republicans who watched Trump’s speech with music were more likely to perceive Trump as a celebrity, but there was no positive effect on Trump’s credibility on any policy issues. The music did, however, damage Clinton’s credibility with them on capital punishment, the Cuban embargo, income inequality, same-sex marriage, and the Syrian crisis.
Independents who watched Trump’s speech with music thought Clinton was less credible on capital punishment, income inequality and marijuana legalization. Even Democratic viewers found her less credible on the Cuban embargo, genocide in Darfur and same-sex marriage.
All campaigns are different. Despite the fact that this is a presidential campaign and one of the candidates is the same as in 2016, comparisons between the 2016 campaign and the 2024 campaign should not be overdrawn.
At the very least, this study predicts that Trump’s and Harris’s carefully chosen entry and exit music will affect how their audiences feel, and that this effect likely transcends the event itself. Even people who watch a video of the event are more likely to be affected if it is accompanied by music.
Music makes candidates more relatable and possibly more credible across a range of issues. Conversely, music also makes their opponent seem less credible.
Why respondents felt more negative about Clinton during Trump’s speech, but not more positive about him is unknown. But it does illustrate how music can tap into a torrent of emotions — both positive and negative. Democrats not only felt negative about Clinton but also about Trump in this case.
One might have expected music to have little or no effect, considering that Trump and Clinton were the least popular candidates in U.S. history to date and had nearly 100 percent name recognition, with voter attitudes largely fixed and very few voters undecided.
Likewise, one would not expect music to change people’s attitudes about a candidate’s perceived credibility on specific issues, given the lack of connection between the context of the songs and political issues in general.
However, the results of this experiment are consistent with previous findings on the power of music.
We know that the tone and style of music — and even the presence or absence of music — can affect people’s feelings in documentaries and films . Music binds social groups together and draws symbolic lines between them , separating one identity group from another. Its qualities enable music and musicians to bind their audiences emotionally and even legitimize political causes when the music is played or performed live.
Music has also been used as a form of worship, entertainment and propaganda to psychologically control the masses, causing some governments to ban forms of music that they have found threatening .
Given what we know about the power of music, perhaps Trump’s spontaneous decision to start rocking out was not a bad one. Perhaps the music tied his audience to him more tightly than his verbal answers could have.
With both sides scrounging for votes in a dead-heat election, perhaps the right music might sway just enough votes to make a difference.
Mark Harvey is an associate professor and director of Graduate Business Programs at the University of Saint Mary. He is the author of “Celebrity Influence: Politics, Persuasion, and Issue-Based Advocacy.”
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