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Terry Mc Kenna's avatar

Trump's conversation about the Kennedy Center, so his pretense of being asked to host.. is so cloying. So much about a narcissist begging for attention.

In any other universe but the current one, Trump would be universally laughed at. But he is not.

I give up.

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Gisele Dubson's avatar

His parents did not love him, and for that we must all be punished.

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David Court's avatar

And, after three wives, he still hasn't found it. Poor Donnie. I truly feel sorry (for those he picked to try).

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

There’s still a possibility his daughter will eventually get divorced, so there’s that!…:)

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David Court's avatar

Robert, common decency keeps me from "liking" the comment, also, because I have little doubt the Felon would.

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

Fair enough, it was a bit crude to say the least; however, it’s not like he never made the comment, was best friends with Epstein, and had no issue walking into the Miss Teen USA pageant on 14 and 15 year olds, just because he owned the pageant, so……:)

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David Court's avatar

Of course I understood the origin of the comment and the nature of the beast, so to say, as well as the friends he kept, and, in the case of Maxwell, clearly still has, not to mention his "locker room" talk on the Action tape. And, if the Bulwark offered a third button, say, APPRECIATE, or some such less commital word, right on.🍻

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Jeff's avatar

Are you sure he isn't being universally laughed at along with all of his supporters? I don't give a shit what level of education they have - anyone who is still supporting Trump is either too dumb to function in society, or this is their desire. Either way, they're all a group of the saddest snowflakes the world has ever known.

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Kate Fall's avatar

Around me, he's pretty universally laughed at. It doesn't make any of this go down any easier, though. Sometimes I think it makes it harder to take.

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LYNN COOK's avatar

How are the cult magas' handling this "Leader of the Lemmings " plunge into madness,

Kate ?? Personal view of some close to me...you are suddenly hearing " The Sound of Silence ". No ovations on Face Book...no cheering loudly at the latest inappropriate word salad of the man who would be king. Their lives have grown far too busy, all of a sudden to " support his truth ' as they have bent both knees to in the past.

" The Sounds of Silence "...deafening !

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Yes, he's universally laughed at. The majority of American loathe him - although regrettably they didn't vote.

MAkes no matter. Trump and his enablers (and they ARE his enablers - he is too far gone to function by himself) now have all the power they need in their grubby little hands.

God knows how the USA is going to get out of this - and he ain't telling.

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Jeff the Original's avatar

Where's Bill going for vacation? I'm thinking of joining him!

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ButWhatDoIKnow's avatar

The Apprentice won ZERO Emmys.

(Stephen Colbert HAS won TEN.)

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LYNN COOK's avatar

BWDIK... we, the.public, did win one valuable take away from The Apprentice though!

It was cancelled , wasn't. It ?

Perhaps we can only dream.of donold's current dementia farce to meet the same

fate . We're still allowed to dream, aren't. we ?

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Harley "Griff" Lofton's avatar

"You are a fluke

Of the universe.

You have no right to be here.

And whether you can hear it or not

The universe is laughing behind your back."

National Lampoon's "Deteriorata"

(You might be too young to get the cultural reference. Those who know---will know!)

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LYNN COOK's avatar

DESIDERATA is one of my very favorite works...your play on words is inspired.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Wow! Just read all the lyrics - That was prescient!

https://genius.com/National-lampoon-deteriorata-annotated

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Christopher Perello's avatar

Huzzah! A classic.

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Frau Katze's avatar

I’ve never seen that before! Hilarious! 😺😺😺

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NYCsaneperson's avatar

Trump's love affair with '80s Broadway spectacle never ceases to entertain me.

Its one of the few bright spots in our miserable times to remember that MAGA America's beloved orange avatar of traditional, red blooded, aggressively heteronormative all-American masculinity loves nothing more than watching a bunch of gay dudes prancing about in cat costumes.

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Kate Fall's avatar

Trump wears more makeup in a week than I've worn in my entire heterosexual middle-aged female life. But some people think TV is real, I guess.

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Kentuckistan's avatar

he's wearing so much on that hand we aren't really sure its a real hand anymore

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Tele partscaster's avatar

And talking about Arnold Palmer's cock.

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Bryan Fichter's avatar

Even his weird boxing pose looks swishy.

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

What? The "Jerking off two guys at once" dance?

I reckon he's been practising that a lot. And every time YMCA comes on, JD and Mikey look REAL nervous. . .

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MAP's avatar

And YMCA is his theme song. And don't forget the tanning bed and the makeup.

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Kentuckistan's avatar

Its a Hard Knock Life

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Chuck Aurora's avatar

Randy Rainbow is about to get his invitation to the White House! If you like gay dudes and show tunes, there is none better. <3

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David Court's avatar

Doesn't some reporter somewhere have a shot of him doing that for re-publication? It doesn't even have to be in motion, although my mind's eye sees the two-handed, jerking motion as he sways to the vibes.

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Paul W. Beckett's avatar

Many, if not most of the folks I went to high school with in the 1980s are Trumpers today. Many, if not most of these same people are also huge fans of 80s glam metal -- as in, bands that had names like Cinderella and wore lipstick on their album covers. THAT was their idea of real, red-blooded, hairy-balls, manly-man rock 'n' roll. In fact, the more Trump-loving, homophobic and transphobic they are, the more they're into that musical genre. It hardly needs to be said that the whole MAGA cult of hyper-masculinty masks a tremendous amount of insecurity.

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flyingdonut's avatar

Note, dear Editor, that the cover of "I Will Survive" by Goose is better than both the original and the Cake version (although not by much).

And please note the Kennedy Center Honors could be MUCH worse. Seriously - Stallone, Kiss, George Strait, Gaynor, Crawford aren't terrible. Not great, but can you imagine Ted Nugent? Kid Rock? The mind boggles.

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Jeff the Original's avatar

The thing that bothers me is that now it seems like it's more like a County Fair list of performers. Not to mention that Trump is now reviewing the performers? Guess he already resolved inflation, huh?

I think I had better follow Bill on vacation...

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JF's avatar

We look more like North Korea every day, with a vulgarian putting himself in charge of good taste in the arts.

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Ben Gruder's avatar

It's already here. When has the term "improper ideology" ever been heard in any place but a North Korean style dictatorship? Here's a direct quote from the While House site. "with respect to the Smithsonian Institution and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo, including by seeking to remove improper ideology from such properties, and shall recommend to the President any additional actions necessary to fully effectuate such policies."

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Cheryl from Maryland's avatar

The National Zoo has improperly ideology? Does that translate into get rid of those cute Black and White bamboo-eating furballs otherwise the USA will think kindly of China.

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Ben Gruder's avatar

I got some real ones: 1) Anything that mentions that some of those animals may be endangered to to overhunting, human encroachment or climate change. 2) Anything that suggests evolution.

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Noorillah's avatar

Some of the animals might be gay.

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Frau Katze's avatar

Nothing mentioning climate change is permitted. That’s a left wing hoax!

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David Court's avatar

Not having visited the National Zoo this millenia, I can only surmise that possibly, somehow or other, blond baboons with a comb got into a hair arranging fit and guess who thinks that it is offensive to him, and, therefore, "improper ideology"? After all, that is a rather complex, convoluted thought process to determine that ideology can ever be improper, and we know, because he told us so, that he is a stable genius.

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Noorillah's avatar

The horses beg to disagree.

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Katherine B Barz's avatar

Also solved the Epstein files debacle. Oops got that wrong. Silly me.

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David Court's avatar

Which was a major part of the reason he made the announcement. He has run out of more attractive squirrels for MAGA to chase after. Keep up the "Where Are The Epstein Files You Promised to Release???" chatter, please.

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Dave Yell's avatar

New series: The Epstein Files; the truth is out there.

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David Court's avatar

"But you can't find it, nja, nja" as the schoolyard bully would say.

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Dave Yell's avatar

And he solved the wars in Ukraine and Gaza in a day.

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David Court's avatar

Still looking for his Piece Prize, one for Vlad, one for Bibi.

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Dave Yell's avatar

With a gold base, like the one Tim Cook gave to Trumpster.

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David Court's avatar

But it can't be made from a 1KG Bar from Switzerland, tariffs, you know.

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Dave Yell's avatar

Maybe he'll find some at fort Knox.

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Noorillah's avatar

He brags about his piece prizes on the Hollywood tape. It's the peace prize he wants for being totally ineffective with Vlad and Bibi.

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David Court's avatar

Don't you mean his "prize pieces"?🙄 Besides, those were ones he just took, the Piece Prize has to be awarded.

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Noorillah's avatar

Oh, OK. Gonna be a long wait on that one, now that Epstein is gone and Maxwell is in detention. Oh wait, she has "work release" privileges, doesn't she? (What were they thinking?!) So that's why he had her moved...he expects his piece on earth to show up any day now.

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Joanne's avatar

LOL. I love it!!!

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David Court's avatar

Thanks.

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Ben Gruder's avatar

How about a side-piece prize?

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David Court's avatar

Are you suggesting he grow sideburns to earn that? Over what will he comb them to match his hair?

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LHS's avatar

That rambling presser yesterday, tangentially regarding Kennedy Center honors, was one for the ages. The NY Times, of course, sanewashed it. Meidas did a great job covering it.

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Katherine B Barz's avatar

So did Seth Myers’s.

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Dave Yell's avatar

Too bad Colbert is on another vacation.

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MAP's avatar

And he's going to "refurbish" the shabby place and give it the WH treatment; his usual garish gold.

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LYNN COOK's avatar

MAP...please....don't make me spew my first cup of coffee.!

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Noorillah's avatar

You think that was gun, wait til he hosts this thing. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...

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Noorillah's avatar

That was fun, not gun

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NYCsaneperson's avatar

LOL yes the Cake version!

And yeah also a good point that we have (at least) three more years of the Trump Center Honors...he's gonna run out of kinda acceptable middlebrow Trump loving artists real quick. The Kid Rock Kennedy Center show is not too far in the future I fear

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Linda Oliver's avatar

I like the Gloria Gaynor version. Whenever I hear it I see Kevin Kline shivering his tushie to it as he discovers he’s gay in “In and Out”. It’s like joy and freedom.

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Justin Lee's avatar

I saw Michael Crawford in concert in Houston in 1998. I also listened to his CD performing the hits of Andrew Lloyd Webber on repeat the entire summer of 1992 (I'd just finished middle school).

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Slide Guitar's avatar

TIL who Crawford is.

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Justin Lee's avatar

The Phaaaaaaantom of the Opera is there, inside your mind. 😁

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Slide Guitar's avatar

😢

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Daydream Believer's avatar

Hey! He won the Tony award for Best Lead Actor in a Musical, and if it’s good enough for Broadway, it’s good enough for me.

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Travis's avatar

The "3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible" of Kennedy Center inductees.

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Dave Yell's avatar

Not terrible, sure sounds like high praise. :)

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Travis's avatar

Low bars these days

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Dave Yell's avatar

In the era of Trumpster; lowest of the low.

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pfuhlir's avatar

Steven Seagal?

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flyingdonut's avatar

Jon Voight and Rob Schneider. They both will be the 2026 ones.

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Dave Yell's avatar

No wonder Anjelie Jolene is estranged from him.

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Dave Yell's avatar

Hey how about Chuck Norris! Walker,Texas Ranger!

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NYCsaneperson's avatar

I dunno, Segal is looking a little...ehh...pudgy...these days. He may have to spend some time at one of RFK's Wellness Farms before becoming eligible.

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Julie's avatar

Sorry, but Gloria Gaynor singing "I will Survive" ending a magical night of dancing? You had to be there.

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Dave Yell's avatar

God I hate disco! Trump cements that!

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Katherine B Barz's avatar

Okay. So what did she do after that song in her career?

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pfuhlir's avatar

Well, she survived...

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max skinner's avatar

She had a couple of albums in the early 80's but disco was dead in the US by then so they weren't selling much here.

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Katherine B Barz's avatar

So, a one hit wonder gets an award at the Kennedy Center. Hope for all of us.

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Steve Spillette's avatar

She did have other hits - her cover of the Jackson 5's "Never Can Say Goodbye" I believe was a top 5 song, one of the very first mainstream disco hits. That said, without knowing the real criteria (are there any?), not sure she would be Kennedy Center worthy.

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Katherine B Barz's avatar

I do not mean Ms Gaynor any disrespect. I hope she had a good run with her career. I have an issue with how she, and the others were selected. Obviously there was criteria in the past selections, but now we are stuck with the boorish felon making the decisions.

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Jenn's avatar

Trump has gone full Norma Desmond.

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

Has anyone checked for a dead chimp buried under the former Rose Garden?

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Jean Jacoby's avatar

The Norma Desmond character was actually 25 years younger than Trump is, as was Gloria Swanson, who played Desmond, just 51 when Sunset Boulevard was released. But the crazy part fits.

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WDD's avatar

"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

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Manon Banta's avatar

Sunset Boulevard is reported to be one of his favorite movies. Just like Hitler with art school, if only he'd gone into producing films...

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LYNN COOK's avatar

...but wait...the Trash Can in Chief might bring.back vaudeville.!

That might ultimately.bring " down " the CROOK 🤔

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Roso's avatar

“Trump.. the complexly coiffed, makeup-slathered cosmopolitan creature with a soft spot for a showstopper.”

Thanks Andrew, I needed a chuckle this morning!

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Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

"“I will say, ‘I Will Survive’ is an unbelievable song,” Trump said."

The soundtrack to all those wonderful secrets he shared with Jeffrey Epstein?

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Dave Yell's avatar

God I hate disco! Trump merely confirms it!

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Julie's avatar

I had to laugh, Dave, at your reaction to disco. Thanks! Dang it, though, Trump truly ruins everything he touches, e en disco. Like The Blob that consumes everyone in its path and gets bigger and bigger. We need to take Trump to the Arctic and drop him off to stop him. Except with climate change that won't work anymore.

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Dave Yell's avatar

Hey you noticed I"m not fond of disco! Todays's Morning shots and comments was such fertile ground for snark! Naturally I couldn't resist!

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Dave Yell's avatar

Perhaps Trump should have nominated the Game of Thrones actor who pitches Scotts weed and feed lawn fertilizer. You know Trumpster. After all, he knows his grass! It is long growing. And golf courses have plenty of grass!

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Weswolf's avatar

Or he could ask the helpful folks at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

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Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

Susy Wiles is probably the least covered player in Trump's universe of players with actual power. I wish the media would shine some more light on this lady of the dark. It seems she was pretty much a normie GOP campaign staffer until she got involved with DeSatan's presidential campaign and got unceremoniously dumped. Is she enabling Trump for revenge on DeSantis or has she really been red pilled. In any event, she needs to tell her dear leader to stop living in the 80's and 90's because it's a key symptom of his worsening dementia....unless she has other ideas in mind for dealing with Demented Donnie and has her sights on JD as her future.

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Ben Gruder's avatar

She's the competent functionary that makes this whole dystopia possible. She no doubt sees herself as strictly a technocrat with no responsibilty for the rot that Trump is inflicting on our country.

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Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

I want to agree with you Ben, but I don't know. She joined the Trump campaign out of spite for Desantis. She doesn't seem to be kept in the cabinet loop the way Stephen Miller is.

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NanceeM's avatar

She doesn't drive policy, which is Miller's focus. She tries to manage Trump (fool's errand), oversee some personnel issues, probably some PR stuff. Not completely inconsequential, but not the power player in the pack.

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Ben Gruder's avatar

Fair enough. It's worth noting that Desantis is also an authoritarian. As I recall, he broke the glass with his move to punish Disney for exercising its free speech rights. I suspect she's a careerist whose allegiance is to the Republican team, and is happy to be useful, make money and exert administrative power in service to them. . But she probably doesn't think too hard about the morality, the human costs, or long-term consequences of the machinery she enables.

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Noorillah's avatar

Probably not at all, nor does she ever consider using her power for good.

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Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

100% agree with your last sentence.

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Frau Katze's avatar

Just following orders!

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Dave Yell's avatar

Suzy "misstress of the dark" Wiles

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Sheri Smith's avatar

She loves being powerful.

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James Woodruff's avatar

Eeyore is always right.

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Mike Lew's avatar

Certainly more right than Owl!

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Dave Yell's avatar

"Posing our question to owl if he s there, how to loosen the jar from the nose of a bear"?

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Dave Yell's avatar

Has anybody ever notice that JVL and Eeyore are never in the same location? Perhaps they are the same! :)

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Ben Gruder's avatar

Finally a conspiracy theory I can get behind!

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WDD's avatar

We need more "Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy fun, fun, fun, fun fun!"

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Dave Yell's avatar

Hew, Hew!!!

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WDD's avatar

Please, please, please can we start a (MAGA clothed) campaign to beg, with tears in our eyes, for DJT to actually perform as part of his MC role? I'm thinking "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" would go viral in a flash, but "Send In The Clowns" would be great too!

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KMD's avatar

Trump did say recently that as a child he was told he had great musical talent.

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Ben Gruder's avatar

Yes, he was told by his alter ego, John Baron.

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R Mercer's avatar

I am sure that, in the dim recesses of his brain, there are many memories of the best people telling him he had great talent at pretty much everything.

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LYNN COOK's avatar

Absolutely, KDM... base...totally B-A-S-E !

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Duane Pierson's avatar

Donny would omit this lyric from "Send in the Clowns:" "Don't bother, they're here."

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JAMES ROY LEE's avatar

NEWS FLASH: Trump hosts TACO party in the Eastern Russian province of Alaska.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Alondra's avatar

When you're a star they let you do it - go to Russia to negotiate ownership of Leningrad AND keep secret a certain file in which your name is mentioned more than once.

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Patricia Veech's avatar

If you're seeking a more hopeful perspective on the American experiment, visit NYC. These folks, who live in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty, have not lost the plot. It's a glorious melting pot of humanity. Either way, enjoy your vacay, Bill!

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Slide Guitar's avatar

I have tickets to see Daniil Trifonov there during this coming season. We'll see if I get harassed for wearing an anti-Trump T-shirt. He's not going to ruin music for me.

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Keith Wresch's avatar

But you are going for an best pianists out there and not one of Trumps Broadway nostalgia displays.

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Slide Guitar's avatar

True, but I hear calls to boycott the Kennedy Center completely.

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Keith Wresch's avatar

I’d say go enjoy the music as I doubt the MAGA crowd will be going to the likes of that. For some people it may be important to boycott the place, but that’s a personal choice. The Kennedy Center was there before Trump and will outlast him despite his tawdry designs for it.

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Cheryl from Maryland's avatar

My favorite violinist, Christian Tetzlaff, is boycotting performing at the Kennedy Center, so I’ve cancelled my membership and my NSO subscription.

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Noorillah's avatar

Hope the rating totally tank.

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Slide Guitar's avatar

Anyone in the DC area who's got tickets to see Igor Levit at 6th & I should ping me.

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John Gerber's avatar

Just rewatched American Psycho the other day and now can't get the picture out of my mind of Donald Trump... every morning... staring coldly at a Les Misérables poster that hangs over the toilet as he goes to the bathroom...

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Janet S's avatar

Maybe we should consider adding an asterisk to the honorees chosen by Trump, much like the asterisks for the home run records in baseball after expanding the season to 162 games, or like those in the steroid era!

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JF's avatar

Apply the asterisk to any and all data emanating from this administration, into eternity . . . Which might not be that far away.

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J. Newman's avatar

Thank you for keeping me (somewhat) sane by recounting the latest horrible with open sarcasm and humor that indeed puts a smile on my face.

Hollywood is a little too gay? Very funny considering Trump is oblivious to the background, shall we say, of "YMCA" loving to "dance" and fist pump to it. I thought he might nominate them for a Kennedy honor!! And surprised that he didn't cross out the "Kennedy" with black marker on the backdrop to his announcement there.

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Colleen Kochivar-Baker's avatar

I was surprised he didn't nominate the Village People as well, and then 'oh yeah, gay and woke.' I guess using YMCA as a theme song is just another of Trump's wallowing in the good ole disco days of yore when a manly man could be seen palling around with Jeffrey Epstein and teenage girls just like Yvanka.

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Dave Yell's avatar

God I hate disco!

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Mark D. Garfinkel, Ph.D.'s avatar

I hated disco the first time around during the Nixon-Ford-Carter years. It *boggles* me that the genre has made multiple comebacks in the past half-century.

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Dave Yell's avatar

And we erroneously thought disco was gone and buried for good! Disco, the zombie of music.

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Kate Fall's avatar

Disco is so underrated. Sometimes I think it was buried in an astroturfed return to manly male music. Anyway, it never really left, but it morphed into dance electronic music and stayed popular.

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Noorillah's avatar

Ditto, except for the BeeGees. Can't explain it.

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WDD's avatar

Frederick Bronski (Mel Brooks): Let's face it, sweetheart: without jews, fags and gypsies there is no theatre.

- To Be Or Not To Be (1983)

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