If You Were Running for President, What Album Would You Force Your Supporters to Listen to With You?
“Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music,” Trump said Monday night in Pennsylvania, at an event billed as a Q&A-style town hall.
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‘Turn it up. Great song!” Imagine those words—from the lips of your fearless leader and “protector” of women, Donald John Trump, to the haunting sounds of a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” blaring from the speakers—are the last thing you hear as the world around you fades.
Moments or maybe hours pass before you open your eyes and come to, sprawled out on a stretcher that’s wheeling you out of Trump’s town hall-turned-DJ-set in suburban Philadelphia. It’s Monday night, three weeks before Election Day.
You quickly learn you’re one of several attendees who fainted from… something. The heat, maybe? Terminally online, fellow Trump supporters are still trying to figure that out—as of Tuesday, they’re debating whether the cascade of fainting pro-Trump town hall attendees were victims of “poisonous gas” or left-wing, George Soros-bought venue staff “turning the heat up” to deliberately give God-fearing patriots heat stroke.
You don’t hear about this, though, because you’re probably being tended to at some nearby emergency room. But once you and the one other fainter are dealt with, Trump starts cracking jokes to lighten the mood for all the remaining survivors at the venue. “Personally, I enjoy this. We lose weight. We can do this, lose four or five pounds, it’s OK with me,” he says, in reference to the curiously warm room temperature. “They don’t want to give us air conditioning… Would anybody else like to faint? Please raise your hand.”
listening to “ave maria” blast over the sound system of an unventilated shipping warehouse while medics cart an endless stream of dehydrated 75 year olds past me on sweat-soaked gurneys and the former president does a little dance on stage. this must be what heaven is like https://t.co/P5g4jSmXaX