“Many Men (Want to Die)”
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg following assassination attempt on Donald Trump He told Bloomberg“Watching Donald Trump stand up after being shot in the face and raise the American flag and pump his fist in the air was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.”
In the era of hip-hop, Trump Earned Supported by rappers, It all starts with Kanye West Lil Wayne, Kodak Black, 50 Cent“Many Men (Wish Death)” quickly became the unofficial Trump theme song. Even the entrance song Regarding a recent interview Trump did with kickboxing streamer Adyn Ross.
Rappers have been around for a long time Explained The media continues to promote himself as the “Black Donald Trump.” Assert Trump is a racist.
“Is Donald Trump cool now?” No, thank God for that.
For most of his life, Donald Trump was a household name: He spent decades surrounded by some of the zeitgeist’s most talented and famous athletes, actors, politicians, musicians, directors, authors, models, and everyone in between.
He has played an unprecedented role in American popular culture on every level: there are three species named after him.
Think of Bill Clinton wearing Ray-Bans and playing saxophone on “The Arsenio Hall Show,” or Obama bopping his head to Kendrick Lamar on late-night TV and getting LeBron James to sing “Hail Caesar.” A year into Trump’s presidency, Vox called him “the perfect pop-culture president.”
this Fainting in Worship This description from New York Magazine: Obama is coolThe media is showing its true colors by calling every president other than Trump the king of online.
Meanwhile, Trump is fighting the culture that Obama promoted and Clinton made cool.
You can see it at Trump rallies: among his supporters there is a militant aversion to the high-minded politeness and sophistication that conservatives often describe as elitism and liberals call culture.
Over the past 30 years, five actors have imitated him on Saturday Night Live, which means that even as they continue to leave the show, his impersonations remain popular. It doesn’t matter that their impersonations are often negative; it’s the power of his character, his ability to draw people in without them even realizing it, that counts.
But a new version has emerged, one that was recently canceled from “SNL” and Starred He plays Trump in the episode “Kill Tony.”
As Hill recently said: asked“Is Donald Trump cool now?”
No, thank God for that.
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Meanwhile, the corporate media plays Cinderella’s stepmother. Push forcefully Kamala’s big feet are in glass slippers. The media says she isThe pantsuit was perfected” and “Presidential Style” said Power.
for that bring the action The media has pushed the narrative towards Gen Z that Trump and Vance are “wacky.”
The New York Times also Tried She was desperate to portray Harris as cool and rebellious, and to change the long-standing perception that she was annoying and uncool. She used Megan Thee Stallion to Twerking In a poetic refrain, she declared her support: Included Her old friends from “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”
Kamala’s public image is covered in a layer of meme culture thatCheeky SummerSimilarly, the media has tried to reframe some of Kamala’s embarrassing moments as cool, like the “coconut tree” meme.
And all of this passes with an air of fakery that is almost impossible to tell is fake.
We all know that the left owns culture in a more glamorous sense: The New York Times has recipes for vegan pasta next to book reviews and real estate and sports. The news isn’t always about politics, or at least not at the forefront, although it is rarely if ever.
And on the left, there’s a growing exodus of people who just want to read a good story, without any high-minded political theory or judgment, as politics has come to encompass all that is personal. Politics used to come second to comedy, art, music, and literature.
The liberal activist class has long prided itself on being cool, but over the last decade it seems to have lost that claim. In fact, its members are no longer cool. They are becoming more and more Worship ugly art.
Recently, AbominationsA good number of them are outright villains, and they are pathetic in an age where sadness has lost the charm it imposed on Woody Allen. Conservatism is correlated Levels of mental illness decrease and happiness increases.
This instability marks the exact opposite of the approach taken by “Cool Hand Luke.”
Americans Growing It’s becoming more and more conservative every year. Sometimes it even makes conservatives look cool. The New York Times I called out accidentally Ben Shapiro is a “provocative combatant,” says Media Matters magazine Reprimanded In a typically uncool way.
Because the masses are inherently conservative. The silence of their peers makes them feel lonely. Conservatives areMaster of Verbal Jujitsu” The left is vocal and persuasive.
Victory comes through humor, mocking cool edgy lords who take themselves too seriously, like Elon Musk. Required Twitter employees signed a document declaring him to be “a lot of fun” and a “cool guy.”
So who will be cool? Who will take the crown?
I’m not a conservative, never have been, and who cares? Either way, it’s ridiculous.
Instead, take up the crown of thorns: accept all your weaknesses, insults, difficulties, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ, so that whenever you are weak, you may be strong.
