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The Bad Place

by Betty Cracker|  February 25, 20234:03 am| 61 Comments

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Talk about a soundtrack from hell: (Jezebel)

Page Six reported Friday that Mar-a-Lago guests have been making sure they show up for dinner on Thursdays, because that’s when Trump takes over the tunes. An “insider” told the outlet that the former president is “on an iPad—usually from his table—so he eats and plays. He loves the ’80s and Broadway tunes—like ‘Phantom of the Opera’—and Celine Dion, ‘Titanic.’ ” (I think they mean “My Heart Will Go On,” but I’ll let this source slide.)

Sweet tap-dancing Christ, can you imagine? Open thread.

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    1. 1.

      HumboldtBlue

      February 25, 2023 at 4:14 am

      Cocaine.

      It explains a lot.

      And may I add — I did not expect to find Ignacio Loyola or Betty bringing a Trump soundtrack to the party on my Bingo card.

      Now I feel dirty.

      Reply
    2. 2.

      🐾BillinGlendaleCA

      February 25, 2023 at 4:17 am

      Sounds as bad as the music they play at The Home of the Orange Apron, then again, I have to put up with that for 8 hours.

      Reply
    3. 3.

      Emma from Miami

      February 25, 2023 at 4:28 am

      Sweet mother of pearl. is there a gif for upchucking violently?

      Reply
    4. 4.

      El Cruzado

      February 25, 2023 at 4:33 am

      This would be a good moment to remind everyone that TFG is also obsessed with Sunset Boulevard.

      It’s the kind of character detail that would get you laughed off a writer’s room as “too on the nose”.

      Reply
    5. 5.

      JWR

      February 25, 2023 at 4:35 am

      I wonder if he wears a leather disco suit while doin’ the house? (Not really, but that was the first image that came to mind.) Dude’s a fucking weirdo. In other news, from NBC:

      A group of news organizations on Friday asked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to share thousands of hours of security footage from Jan. 6 after Fox News host Tucker Carlson said this week that he has been given access to about 44,000 hours of video from the attack on the Capitol.

      “We understand that, in your capacity as Speaker of the House of Representatives, you recently provided the Tucker Carlson Tonight television program with access to certain Congressional records — specifically, previously unavailable video footage from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021,” wrote Laura Handman, a lawyer representing the media outlets. “We write to request that the News Organizations be granted access to these materials.”

      The news outlets requesting access include The Associated Press; NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC and Noticias Telemundo; The New York Times; and The Washington Post.

      Reply
    6. 6.

      Amir Khalid

      February 25, 2023 at 4:38 am

      Some should sneak some 1980s hair metal onto TFG’s iPad playlist.

      Reply
    7. 7.

      Baud

      February 25, 2023 at 4:39 am

      He loves the ’80s

      Oh Mickey, you’re so fine
      You’re so fine, you blow my mind
      Hey Mickey 👏👏, hey Mickey👏👏

      Reply
    8. 8.

      kalakal

      February 25, 2023 at 4:41 am

      Anyone who chooses to be a guest at that pestilential hole deserves to have TFGs musical taste inflicted on them.

      For anyone else I’d call it cruel & unusual but for these toadies…

      Reply
    9. 9.

      Betty Cracker

      February 25, 2023 at 4:41 am

      @Baud: Perfect emoji placement!

      Reply
    10. 10.

      Amir Khalid

      February 25, 2023 at 4:42 am

      @El Cruzado:

      Does TFG see himself as Norma Desmond? That would explain quite a bit.

      Reply
    11. 11.

      kalakal

      February 25, 2023 at 4:43 am

      Motorhead would be fun

      & 21st Century Schizoid Man would be a real treat

      Reply
    12. 12.

      patrick II

      February 25, 2023 at 4:57 am

      I was in a Chipotle today and the music was crazy good.  It started with an old classic country song, then jazz, then some sort of techno, then, well I don’t really know what it was but it sounded great.  I asked the lady behind the counter where this music came from and she didn’t know — “the building pipes it in”.  O.K.  Best and most remarkably eclectic background music I have heard maybe ever.

      Reply
    13. 13.

      danielx

      February 25, 2023 at 5:42 am

      Insomnia sucks.

      Reply
    14. 14.

      lowtechcyclist

      February 25, 2023 at 5:48 am

      Gah! If I had to hear “My Heart Will Go On” one more time, the heart of the responsible person might come to an abrupt stop.

      I was somewhere the other day where the piped-in music was unexpectedly both eclectic and good, ranging from Dusty Springfield to the Lumineers, with a number of stops in between.  I’m guessing the Publix in Plant City, where I was doing an early morning grocery run last weekend, but I’m really not sure.

      Reply
    15. 15.

      Betty

      February 25, 2023 at 6:36 am

      I yelped when I first started reading this because I thought he was doing karaoke. At least he is just playing the music. It could be worse.

      Reply
    16. 16.

      Amir Khalid

      February 25, 2023 at 6:46 am

      @lowtechcyclist:

      Being I’m a pedant, what bugs me about My Heart Will Go On is the lyrics. “My heart will go on” means my heart will endure. “My heart will go on and on” means my heart won’t shut the hell up. And every time I hear Celine Dion sing the latter, I cringe.

      Reply
    17. 17.

      Amir Khalid

      February 25, 2023 at 6:49 am

      @Betty:

      TFG singing karaoke would clear the room of even the most sycophantic audience.

      Reply
    18. 18.

      David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

      February 25, 2023 at 6:52 am

      Sounds like “John Barron” planted that story

      Reply
    19. 19.

      different-church-lady

      February 25, 2023 at 6:58 am

      Now all I can think of is an iPad covered in ketchup. Thanks.

      Reply
    20. 20.

      different-church-lady

      February 25, 2023 at 6:59 am

      @HumboldtBlue:

      Cocaine.

      It explains a lot.

      And not just about Trump.

      Reply
    21. 21.

      Shalimar

      February 25, 2023 at 7:02 am

      @JWR: MAGAs have an insult for what McCarthy is doing: virtue signaling.   They claim to hate it, but it seems perfectly fine when someone pretends to have their values. Their entire cult is built on virtue signaling.

      Reply
    22. 22.

      prostratedragon

      February 25, 2023 at 7:02 am

      Familiar tune, another language.

      Reply
    23. 23.

      Shalimar

      February 25, 2023 at 7:05 am

      @Amir Khalid: In the context of the movie, her true love did become a popsicle.  She had a lot to endure, and also got famous for enduring it.

      Reply
    24. 24.

      trnc

      February 25, 2023 at 7:08 am

      An “insider” told the outlet that the former president is “on an iPad—usually from his table—so he eats and plays. He loves the ’80s and Broadway tunes

      Sure, yuck, but aside from how anyone feels about the particular choices, this seems like yet one more attempt to normalize the nazi next door. Not by Jezebel, of course, but by the fuckers who would make the decision to go to MAL on a regular basis.

      Reply
    25. 25.

      Shalimar

      February 25, 2023 at 7:15 am

      @Shalimar: That wasn’t clear at all.  What I meant was she lived her entire life for the popsicle, so it seems like her heart never did shut up.

      Reply
    26. 26.

      mrmoshpotato

      February 25, 2023 at 7:17 am

      Awwww, Dump gets to play with an iPad.  How nice of the adults in the room.

      ETA – and this is newsworthy because?  These idiots just can’t quit the orange fartcloud (that farts loud – thank you, autoincorrect).

      Reply
    27. 27.

      Shalimar

      February 25, 2023 at 7:21 am

      @trnc: They flock to him.  Maybe he’s searching for the right theme song when the time for Flavor-aid comes.  He’s a narcissist, so you know he would love to take millions of followers with him when he dies.

      Reply
    28. 28.

      RandomMonster

      February 25, 2023 at 7:55 am

      The problem with this story is that I’m now picturing him doing that little dance/strut with his fists at chest level and and a motion that looks like he’s jerking off two dudes.

      Reply
    29. 29.

      Tony Jay

      February 25, 2023 at 7:57 am

      @Shalimar:

      Their entire cult is built on virtue signaling.

      Vice hollering?

      Sin screeching?

      Reply
    30. 30.

      waspuppet

      February 25, 2023 at 8:10 am

      I mean, his big first dance with Melania at his inaugural ball was to a recording of Frank Sinatra singing “My Way.” The most obvious, brain-dead choice possible. In the slot where the Obamas brought in Beyoncé to sing “At Last” live. That should have been the final clue, to anyone still in the dark, that there were no hidden depths, or details, or anything, to TFG.

      Of course, the only people still in the dark about that were (checks notes) the people who get paid six and seven figures to cover national politics.

      Turns my stomach every time I remember those people. Trump couldn’t win a race based on issues and policy, AND he couldn’t win a race based on who you’d rather hang out with. They had to work SO hard to drag him over the line.

      Reply
    31. 31.

      Searcher

      February 25, 2023 at 8:23 am

      What are the chances Trump or Mar-a-lago has been paying royalties for their weekly performance?

      Reply
    32. 32.

      Keith P.

      February 25, 2023 at 8:24 am

      Trump’s *also* the asshole who wants to be DJ at all the parties?!?!  Honestly, that’d be on the bottom of my odds sheet.

      Reply
    33. 33.

      Keith P.

      February 25, 2023 at 8:26 am

      @Emma from Miami: There’s this.  And this. And this.

      Reply
    34. 34.

      Anonymous At Work

      February 25, 2023 at 8:47 am

      I would wish this upon my enemies, but no one else.

      Reply
    35. 35.

      sdhays

      February 25, 2023 at 8:55 am

      @Keith P.: I hadn’t thought about it, but really it’s just another item on the list of least-surprising-things. Of course the gigantic narcissist wants everyone to listen to whatever he wants to listen to.

      Reply
    36. 36.

      RepubAnon

      February 25, 2023 at 9:41 am

      @sdhays: We need to slip William Shatner’s “Transformed Man” onto Trumpski’s iPad… his cover of Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, singing like Captain Kirk would have done,  always gets a reaction

      Reply
    37. 37.

      trnc

      February 25, 2023 at 9:53 am

      @RepubAnon: We need to slip William Shatner’s “Transformed Man” onto Trumpski’s iPad

      The easiest way would be to leave it at the gate in an envelope marked “Classified Audio.”

      Reply
    38. 38.

      different-church-lady

      February 25, 2023 at 10:00 am

      @Tony Jay: I vote #2

      Reply
    39. 39.

      different-church-lady

      February 25, 2023 at 10:03 am

      @waspuppet: Even Sinatra himself came to hate that song!

      Reply
    40. 40.

      different-church-lady

      February 25, 2023 at 10:04 am

      @trnc: No, then everyone else would have it too.

      Reply
    41. 41.

      What Have the Romans Ever Done for US?

      February 25, 2023 at 10:25 am

      Presumably Jesus, being the physical manifestation of an all powerful God, is an excellent tap dancer but I doubt TFG is playing anything even he can tapdance to.

      Reply
    42. 42.

      Keith P.

      February 25, 2023 at 10:32 am

      @What Have the Romans Ever Done for US?: Did you watch “Preacher”?  Mentioning Jesus tap-dancing makes me think of that Humperdoo scene (Humperdoo being a very, very inbred descendent of Jesus)

      Reply
    43. 43.

      gratuitous

      February 25, 2023 at 10:52 am

      A circle of Hell that would require the greatest of Dante’s creative powers to describe and populate.

      Reply
    44. 44.

      Enhanced Voting Techniques

      February 25, 2023 at 10:53 am

      What, no Village People and no Memory from Cats on the Trump top 40? Memory is like The Forgotten Wingnut Dumbass anthem from what I’ve seen.

      I’ll  bet Phantom of the Opera is Trump’s idea of being cultured and refined.

      Reply
    45. 45.

      MattF

      February 25, 2023 at 11:02 am

      One assumes the ‘insider’ revealing this essential information is The Man himself.

      Reply
    46. 46.

      Jinchi

      February 25, 2023 at 11:17 am

      They mention 80s songs, but I bet it’s just YMCA played on an infinite loop.

      Reply
    47. 47.

      laura

      February 25, 2023 at 11:24 am

      @lowtechcyclist: Gah! If I had to hear “My Heart Will Go On” one more time, the heart of the responsible person might come to an abrupt stop.

      Damas e caballeros! For your enjoyment and my impending demise- it’s Los Straightjackets!

      https://youtu.be/x-JG1ulBqE4

      Reply
    48. 48.

      Ruckus

      February 25, 2023 at 11:27 am

      @HumboldtBlue:

      Cocaine made everyone I know rather mellow. Or at least much less able to do much of anything other than relax and enjoy.

      Now I’m sure that some will react differently and SFB surely is different than any normal, rational, healthy, not deranged individual but I can’t see it being cocaine. A lot of people I knew tried it or were regulars and not one became as irrational, unhealthy, deranged as SFB. Of course he’s been that way for a long time and has a son who seems to be a hell of an abnormal, irrational, unhealthy, deranged individual. Maybe it’s conservatism, that’s a hell of a drug.

      Reply
    49. 49.

      VOR

      February 25, 2023 at 11:30 am

      @Keith P.: Bride at every wedding, bereaved at every funeral, DJ at every party – a narcissist must be the center of attention everywhere they go.

      Reply
    50. 50.

      Ruckus

      February 25, 2023 at 11:35 am

      @Betty:

      It could be worse?

      You’d have to be in his presence, at his shithole “club,” way over paying for the privilege of being exposed to his lunacy, a conservative, a moron, pompous – maybe not to his level but way above normal, arrogant and even less intelligent.

      What in the hell could be worse than that?

      Reply
    51. 51.

      Ruckus

      February 25, 2023 at 11:39 am

      @RandomMonster:

      How do you know he’s not?

      Not trying to enhance the picture you made, just asking – because nothing seems rational around him.

      Reply
    52. 52.

      dr. luba

      February 25, 2023 at 11:51 am

      @waspuppet: To be fair, no one wanted to play Trump’s inauguration except for a few has beens, and he couldn’t have that!!

      But, yes, a brain dead choice.  Now, if he’s played the Sid Vicious version……

      Reply
    53. 53.

      JarheadJFK

      February 25, 2023 at 12:04 pm

      I’m surprised considering that Trump grew up in the NYC area during the late 50s/early 60s.  I would have expected a lot of Doo Wop.

      Reply
    54. 54.

      JDM

      February 25, 2023 at 12:09 pm

      Back when we were RVing fulltime pre-streaming we’d listen to local radio. Some stations would have a noontime request show. Inevitably the request time was filled with “Can you play ‘Satisfaction’ by the Stones?” and the like, often songs they’d played that morning.

      Now I know who was calling in.

      Reply
    55. 55.

      tomtofa

      February 25, 2023 at 12:15 pm

      @Enhanced Voting Techniques:
      Memory is what his aides played when he went into a rage in the WH. Apparently it calmed him down.

      Reply
    56. 56.

      Spadizzly

      February 25, 2023 at 12:20 pm

      Deleted on account of botched link.

      Reply
    57. 57.

      Spadizzly

      February 25, 2023 at 12:33 pm

      @RandomMonster: Round up the usual suspects

       https://www.investors.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/EDIT2-trump-051617-newscom.jpg 

      Reply
    58. 58.

      pacem appellant

      February 25, 2023 at 12:48 pm

      I did not need Phantom ruined for me. I’m resetting my brain to the moment before I read this post. A little warning next time!

      Reply
    59. 59.

      Tony G

      February 25, 2023 at 1:09 pm

      @sdhays: There’s apparently no aspect of Trump’s life that is not childish and stupid.  The fact that tens of millions of Americans worship that guy is horribly depressing.

      Reply
    60. 60.

      SteverinoCT

      February 25, 2023 at 8:39 pm

      @🐾BillinGlendaleCA:
      Sounds as bad as the music they play at The Home of the Orange Apron

      My supermarket plays a decent mix of music, but only one channel of the stereo mix. Makes it a bit unusual.

      Reply
    61. 61.

      JBWoodford

      February 27, 2023 at 12:48 pm

      What, no one has made the “DJ Trump” (his real initials) joke yet?

      Reply

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