There has always been a strange nexus between celebrity, politics, entertainment, and power. They’re pretty much the four horsemen, if not of the Apocalypse, certainly of daily American culture. They drive the narrative.
When Donald Trump came down the escalator, he upended the paradigm. Suddenly we had a political candidate, straight off of the tabloids (celebrity), TV (entertainment), and headed for the world’s most powerful job. It was an unholy and toxic mix and remains so to this day.
So it comes as little surprise that Trump’s campaign video, Justice For All, featuring the January 6 Choir, is being touted as a “hit single.” Kanye is probably turning green right about now. If you missed this opus, here you are.
Trump releases a new video called, ‘Donald Trump and the J6 Prisoner’s Choir.’ pic.twitter.com/6gL6nOaOWL
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) March 10, 2023
That was yesterday and today Trump is touting that this is his “debut single” and it’s number one. Breitbart is doing a story on it. I won’t link there. I will link to Fox News, Drudge Report, RedState, but I draw the line at Breitbart and Alex Jones.
Justice For All,” is a tribute to the January 6 prisoners that features the “J6 Prison Choir,” an ensemble of prisoners who can be heard chanting singing the national anthem and while Trump recites the Pledge of Allegiance.
As of Friday, “Justice For All” has overtaken Cyrus’s “Flowers,” McGraw’s “Standing Room Only, and Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” on iTunes’ national rankings, making it the number one song in America on the platform.
The song is available to purchase for $1.29 and all net proceeds will go to “certain J6 families in need,” according to Kash Patel.
“The J6PC continues to make their voices heard through the power of music and sings ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ every evening before bed, inside Pod C2B of the DC Jail – a.k.a – the DC gulag,” Patel’s team wrote in a press release.
In 1985 educator Neil Postman wrote a prophetic book, “Amusing Ourselves To Death,” wherein he predicted that the American propensity for entertainment was going to prove our cultural undoing. I don’t know if he foresaw the rise of a character like Donald Trump, but I feel very safe in saying that Trump’s ascent would not have surprised him in the least.
Trump is mentally ill. This is all a TV show to him. He doesn’t see where he’s playing with fire because his entire life has been insulated, isolated, and consequence free. He’s lived in a gilded tower and bought his way out of any jam he’s ever found himself in, or declared bankruptcy, or stiffed everybody.
He’s a sociopath with no moral compass. Despite the desperate straits in which he finds himself legally, and his enraged Truth Social meltdowns over same, he believes he’ll walk. A lot of people believe he’ll walk. Even if there would be an indictment (likely) in the Stormy Daniels case and a conviction (possibly) Trump would not necessarily have to serve time in prison.
In his mind he is the center, the star, of a dramedy, a political potboiler soap opera, mixed with farce, and he can get away with anything, including murder on 5th Avenue.
Expect Trump to cut yet another campaign ad this week and also brag about how it’s a hit single. Attention is his drug and presidential politics provides him with a hell of a source of product. That’s the only reason he’s in this game, attention (and grifting, of course) no other.
As Mary Trump wrote “He is the most dangerous person in the world” and as his rantings get crazier and crazier she has proven herself to be quite prophetic.
Kash Patel is a known liar.
The headline cartoon is perfect. Thanks.