The Smiths added to Trump rally music (January 23, 2024)

Not sure if this is a joke: tweet says Trump added Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want to his pre-rally music in Laconia, New Hampshire.

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UPDATE 12:34PM PT:

Surface posted the link:

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Media coverage:

• The Hill: Smiths guitarist rips Trump for using band’s music: ‘Consider this s‑‑‑ shut right down’. Link from shoplifterromo.
• Billboard: Johnny Marr Rips Donald Trump For Playing Smiths Songs at Rallies. Link from shoplifterromo.
• The Guardian: Johnny Marr blasts Donald Trump for playing the Smiths song at rally. Link posted by goinghome.
• From shoplifterromo:
  
  
  
  Stephen Colbert mentions Trump playing The Smiths at his rallies during his Late Show opening monologue Thursday on CBS - YouTube.
  
  Scroll to 5:32-7:01 to watch Colbert discuss Trump “treating his folks to an unlikely warmup act” before playing a snippet of “Please, please, please, let me get what I want” at a rally and then ending with Johnny Marr’s response.
• Spectator: "Why Trump loves The Smiths" (February 9, 2024)
• Vanity Fair: Why Is Donald Trump Playing the Smiths at His Rallies? Link posted by NealCassady.

 

[merletingles]

Looks like Johnny's having a fever nightmare.

How reassuring to know that everyone's favorite virtue-signaling block of wood is now on the scene to shut this down

 

[CrazyFaceGenes]

If an artist doesn't want a politician using something they have created i don't see the problem.
It's not virtue signaling to publicly attack a politicians public rally, i thought we had a free speech thing going on.

 

[gashonthenail]

Morrissey’s only objection to Obama is that he didn't support Black Lives Matter enough.

Morrissey doesn't mention BLM in the interview. He talks about police brutality.
I do have to say though, of all the things Moz has said over the years, most of which I would agree with, but not all, his comment about Obama being 'white inside' is probably the silliest thing he has ever said. But we can all talk out of our ass sometimes - don't you agree, Karen?

 

[Phranc & Open]

Give Trump and his entire entourage free tickets to LA, at least that way, the bowl will be full. Trump gets his picture taken with Marianne and Co for the DVD before the gig. Just chased by the Secret Service and now an "artist" fo the rally. Doesn't need much more. Madhouse!

 

[Phranc & Open]

If he has Proud Boys and QAnon Shaman in tow, they might feel comfortable (or they might just tear down the KIA Forum).

 

[Malarkey]

Morrissey doesn't mention BLM in the interview. He talks about police brutality.
I do have to say though, of all the things Moz has said over the years, most of which I would agree with, but not all, his comment about Obama being 'white inside' is probably the silliest thing he has ever said. But we can all talk out of our ass sometimes - don't you agree, Karen?

It's the only thing you talk out of.

Morrissey was talking about BLM.

He also said:

Black people built modern America, yet there is zero black energy in American politics. It existed at one time (Malcolm X, Dick Gregory, Dr. King, and perhaps James Baldwin), but no more. CNN has given every main headline for the last six months to Donald Trump – who erroneously believes that America is a ‘white’ country (it wasn’t ever so) and who seems to be a whisper away from uttering the word ‘lynching’. Skeletons in rocking chairs are impressed by Trump’s gung-ho aggression … but why? It’s illogical to create more laws against minorities on the basis that minorities statistically break the law more often than middle-class whites, because, after all, laws in America target blacks and Hispanics far more than they target whites
(Morrissey, Facebook, 29 April 2016)

 

[gashonthenail]

It's the only thing you talk out of.

Morrissey was talking about BLM.

He also said:

Black people built modern America, yet there is zero black energy in American politics. It existed at one time (Malcolm X, Dick Gregory, Dr. King, and perhaps James Baldwin), but no more. CNN has given every main headline for the last six months to Donald Trump – who erroneously believes that America is a ‘white’ country (it wasn’t ever so) and who seems to be a whisper away from uttering the word ‘lynching’. Skeletons in rocking chairs are impressed by Trump’s gung-ho aggression … but why? It’s illogical to create more laws against minorities on the basis that minorities statistically break the law more often than middle-class whites, because, after all, laws in America target blacks and Hispanics far more than they target whites
(Morrissey, Facebook, 29 April 2016)

Again, doesn't mention BLM.

 

[Malarkey]

Again, doesn't mention BLM.

Ferguson is where BLM started. He supported their protest. That is supporting BLM.

 

[gashonthenail]

If he has Proud Boys and QAnon Shaman in tow, they might feel comfortable (or they might just tear down the KIA Forum).

I don't think the meat-free policy will go down too well...

 

[Phranc & Open]

I don't think the meat-free policy will go down too well...

No. They might bite them heads off and hang the bones on their fur hats.
While "BIG" Trump awkwardly dances to the encore "Please Please...".

 

[gashonthenail]

Ferguson is where BLM started. He supported their protest. That is supporting BLM.

BLM started in 2012. Ferguson was 2014.
There is a difference between supporting the principle that 'black lives matter' - and supporting Black Lives Matter.

 

[Thewlis]

 

[Mozzypaws]

Morrissey doesn't mention BLM in the interview. He talks about police brutality.
I do have to say though, of all the things Moz has said over the years, most of which I would agree with, but not all, his comment about Obama being 'white inside' is probably the silliest thing he has ever said. But we can all talk out of our ass sometimes - don't you agree, Karen?

Compared to the Black nationalist revolutionaries and philosophers Morrissey likes, I think that comment is fine. Obomba is rather "white" politically

 

[Malarkey]

BLM started in 2012. Ferguson was 2014.
There is a difference between supporting the principle that 'black lives matter' - and supporting Black Lives Matter.

Ferguson made it a political movement & he has a good history of supporting Black power movements.

 

[Mozzypaws]

BLM started in 2012. Ferguson was 2014.
There is a difference between supporting the principle that 'black lives matter' - and supporting Black Lives Matter.

You know the police and feds killed a lot of the original Black nationalists who created BLM right?

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Compared to the Black nationalist revolutionaries and philosophers Morrissey likes, I think that comment is fine. Obomba is rather "white" politically

Leave it to Moz to give funny little names to people.

 

[gashonthenail]

No man in the USA is more responsible for the mass incarceration of black men than Joe Biden.

‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration (Published 2019)

He now plays down his role overhauling crime laws with segregationist senators in the ’80s and ’90s. That portrayal today is at odds with his actions and rhetoric back then.

www.nytimes.com

 

[🐈🐈🐈]

The modern day poet, Kendrick Lamar, expresses perfectly everything America fears.

 

[Gray Fruit]

Why does Morrissey complain about being erased from the Smiths yet he lets Johnny grab all of the international headlines? Is Morrissey afraid of losing his new alt-right fans?

 

[Malarkey]

No man in the USA is more responsible for the mass incarceration of black men than Joe Biden.

‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration (Published 2019)

He now plays down his role overhauling crime laws with segregationist senators in the ’80s and ’90s. That portrayal today is at odds with his actions and rhetoric back then.

www.nytimes.com

If you're not lying, you're misleading.

Republicans including Bush & Trump have done worse.

George H. W. Bush, Grace, and Gracelessness

On criminal justice, the late president's legacy is shaped by Willie Horton and Clarence Thomas.

www.brennancenter.org