The New Year's Eve party at Mar-a-Lago featured a performance by rapper Vanilla Ice, who became the first music act to trend on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) in 2024. , which caused a sensation in the early 1990s.
Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, entertained crowds at former President Trump's resort alongside another 1990s pop culture staple, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
You can watch President Trump on video standing in the room As a performance of Vanilla Ice.
The night also featured an Elvis impersonator. Trump watches the game at the banquet hallsitting at what looks like a dinner table.
in speech to attendeesPresident Trump apologized to former first lady Melania Trump, who he said was spending the holidays at his mother's bedside in a Miami hospital.
President Trump briefly turned his attention to politics as he joked that Mar-a-Lago members were “cheating tickets” and looked up names for the Iowa Republican caucuses, which are scheduled to begin in three weeks. .
“We're going to have a great year. Our country has gone through hell, but we're going to turn things around and turn them around soon,” President Trump said.
Among the guests at the party was Roger Stone. conservative political consultant He was convicted in connection with the Mueller investigation and pardoned by President Trump in 2020.
Vanilla Ice wasn't the only 1990s artist to gain political attention online Monday. The rock band Green Day was praised by the left and despised by the right for adapting their most famous lyrics to fit the times.
Appearing on ABC's “Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve,” hosted by Ryan Seacrest, singer Billie Joe Armstrong said the lyrics to “American Idiot” were “I'm a redneck.” I tweaked it from “It's not part of the policy'' to “I am.'' It is not part of the MAGA agenda. ”
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