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Here’s What the “Trump Center” for the Performative Arts Would Celebrate

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Donald Trump keeps trolling the Kennedy Center over its mission of celebrating the arts and humanities. He’s destroyed its legacy near-term, and gaslights the existing board of self-appointed nominees over what kind of activities should go on there. Let’s consider what a Trump Center might choose to celebrate as acts in keeping with the the life he’s lived.

Goth Band Trump Act
One of the acts at a Trump center for the performative arts is the Goth Heavy Metal Christian Armageddon Band and Orchestra
  1. The Pardon Parade. Trump could have all the people he’s pardoned for crimes against the nation parade across the stage in Red MAGA wear to celebrate his habit of issuing pardons to domestic terrorists and wealthy individuals caught in White Collar Crimes. In his role as the 47th president of the United States (January 20, 2025 – present), Donald Trump granted executive clemency to more than 1,700 individuals as of June 11, 2026, all of whom were charged or convicted of federal criminal offenses. This included a blanket pardon of some 1,500 individuals associated with the January 6 United States Capitol attack. To be clear, he’s also been issuing pardons to people who bribe their way out of crimes by paying millions of dollars to be freed from accountability for their heinous acts of theft, grift, and abuse of financial practices.
  2. The Epstein Files Fantasia. Trump could stage a huge musical production denying all the allegations of child sexual abuse and human trafficking pointing directly to him in the Epstein Files. Cameo appearances by all his co-conspirators would feature Ghislaine Maxwell and an animatron Jeffrey Epstein writhing to circus music as he’s wheeled around the stage surrounded by dozens of young girls and boys who sink below the stage as he wheels past them.
  3. The University of Fraud Game Show. Given the fact that Trump’s own University was fined $25M in a settlement to its supposed “students,” the University of Fraud Game Show would feature a live broadcast of a Jeopardy-like game in which only wrong answers count for points.
  4. Sexual Abuse Superstar. This musical would feature a re-write of all the lyrics of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Jesus Christ Superstar to chronicle the life and times of America’s self-confessed sexual abuser. The cast would consist of porn stars and recruits from the Christian Evangelical Community whose criminal records of sexual abuse would be exonerated in exchange for their appearance in the show. Melania Trump is featured as the “Exonerator,” an angelic figure who appears after each episode to dismiss the sins of her husband using a Magic Wand with a big T on the knob.
  5. Rape and Rapture. This TV game show has a legal theme in which Republican Politicians sit on “judge” panels while rape victims tell their stories before a national audience and the men on the panel decide whether their stories qualify as Rape or Rapture. Of course, the game is essentially fixed as the only purpose is to get women to share their horrific experiences for the lurid interests of the Right-wing Manosphere. The prize for each women’s appearance is a check for $500 and a tee shirt that reads, “Your Body, My Choice.”
  6. The Racist Ballet. Dancers perform a compelling performance of Denial and Determination, in which a cast of all-white ballet dancers twirl and leap to a score of patriotic classical music titled “Patriot’s Theme” with depictions of lynchings, torture, and water cannon attacks on Black Protestors defining the dance until Trump himself walks out onstage dressed in an all-white Klan Robe while pumping his fists in his Trump Dance while the women gyrate around him in lustful displays of Aryan worship,.
  7. The Christian Evangelical Choir. This performance features a series of choral arrangements echoing themes of claimed persecution, infringements of Religious Liberty and argumentative accusations against American Factions it considers sinful. A special appearance of the Anti-Gay Choir will sing “In Sodomites We Don’t Trust,” and the all-male A Cappella Pro-Life Troupe will sing the Street Song “Baby, Don’t Blame Me” with lyrics about why men have every right to cause unplanned pregnancies.
  8. The ICE Follies. This macho Hip Hop production employs real ICE agents to conduct beatings of captured immigrants and liberal American citizens before a live audience of red-hatted ICE fans and vindictive Right-wing Christians chanting “God Hates Libtards.”
  9. Grift and Graft. Trump is the host for this Financial Reality Show in which Financial graft is celebrated as a form of political and economic corruption in which public officials misuse their authority to divert public funds or resources for private benefit  It typically involves the intentional misdirection of funds meant for public projects so that private interests gain an unfair advantage, often through overpriced contracts, kickbacks, or insider deals.
  10. The Snuff Show. Candidates in the Snuff Show are placed behind three curtains as their silhouettes appear to the live and TV audience. The Snuff Host reads histories of how each candidate was trafficked from a childhood to the age of 32, and the audience votes on who was most likely to be “snuffed” by their traffickers fearing exposure if their affiliation with the Snuff Candidate were publicly revealed. When the votes are totaled, the Snuff Candidate who “wins” is snuffed out by a gun with a silencer on it.
  11. So Much Winning, The Musical. This Live Reading of a Trump Biography is acted out by a cast of actual Trump sycophants including Rudy Giuliani, The Pillow Guy Mike Lindell, and the entire ensemble of Trump lawyers who have lost their licenses by representing Trump in false electoral challenges and political scandals cause by the “Winner” himself.
  12. Kash Add Vance to Rubio. This event features members of the Trump administration competing to demonstrate their respective incompetency and lies in all facets of their respective jobs. The main theme is defying the real purpose of their respective agencies, from Bessent to Johnson to Vought to Miller, all to carry out Trump’s incompetent and selfishly motivated wishes with touches of racism, fascism and religion thrown in for good measure. The game concludes when every contestant is finished shameless disgracing themselves and every single duty of the Administration is handed over to the tiny figure of Marco Rubio.
  13. The Armageddon Headbanger’s Ball. This Heavy Metal Band and its backing orchestra dresses in Goth Christian costumes to play dire End Times symphonies while Revelation passages are sung with all sincerity. The show features clashing cymbals and colliding sets of Christian and Jewish religious symbols mixing into an “end of the world” Coda. Images of Israel’s leaders since the 1940s flash across the background set while the running totals of money given to Israel by the United States rotates from the 40s until today rotates around a spinning globe with Jesus standing on top
  14. The Fascism Is Fun Frolic. After a showing of the film A Clockwork Orange, audiences are invited to tour the “local festival” style “Midway” where visitors can practice kicking people when they’re down, suppressing dissenters using a firehose or an AR-15-style rife, dive into the Stand Your Ground tent where various minorities pop up and participants decide in an instant whether they’re a threat or not and shoot them in the head, and attending giant rallies where fake assassinations take place to rile up the crowds into wholehearted hate against whatever group of people they choose to despise.
  15. Trump Is A Living God Service, with dispensational commendations. This religious gathering will officially designate Donald Trump as a Living God. He will issue blessings to all who worship him fully, and additional pardons to all who he originally pardoned but who went on to commit additional crimes including child sexual abuse, burglary, battery and other crimes. All who profess their loyalty to Donald Trump as a Living God will receive a necklace featuring his famed scowling Mug Shot portrait. Cost for attending: $10,000 Cash, but financing with automatic payments is available.

If you have additional suggestions for services or performances at the Trump Center for the Performative Arts please! share them in the comments below. Maybe we can program a whole other season!

Pete Hegseth and his Religion of Death

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“Pretty boy” Pete Hegseth left a stinking path of adulterous cheating in his marriage path

Most of you have likely seen photos of an amped-up Pete Hegseth, covered in tattoos signifying various belief systems he adheres to. The documented laundry list of right-wing delusional markings imprinted on his body includes:

  • “Deus Vult”: This Latin phrase, which translates to “God wills it” and was a battle cry during the Crusades, is tattooed on his bicep. This tattoo was reportedly a reason a fellow service member flagged him as a potential “insider threat,” leading to his removal from duty at President Biden’s 2021 inauguration.
  • Jerusalem Cross: Located on his chest, this large cross surrounded by four smaller crosses is a historic Christian symbol representing the five wounds of Christ and the spread of the Gospel.
  • “Kafir”: Hegseth got a new tattoo in Arabic that reads “Kafir,” an Arabic word meaning “infidel” or “non-believer,” which has sparked outrage and criticism from some Muslim advocacy groups.
  • “We the People”: He has “We the people,” the opening words of the U.S. Constitution, emblazoned on his forearm.
  • 1775, 13 stars, and an AR-15/American flag design: Above the “We the People” tattoo, he has “1775” in Roman numerals, representing the year of the Second Continental Congress, surrounded by 13 stars and an image combining an AR-15 rifle and an American flag.
  • Sword with Bible reference: A tattoo of a cross and sword referencing the Bible verse Matthew 10:34, which he interprets as “not peace, but a sword”. 

All these religious undertones in ink became religious overtones in Hegseth’s public life. But it’s all pathetically hubristic garbage if you analyze it with the least bit of theological and historical context. The “five wounds of Christ” allusion is in reality a gory testament to excessive government authoritarian cruelty in the Roman Empire, which Trump and Hegseth seek to emulate. His cultural appropriation of the Kafir word meaning “infidel” aligns with the inane “not peace, but a sword” ideology of the Christian Crusades that wrought nothing but insane, warlike trips to the Middle East based on religious zealotry and political jealousy. That manic tradition of killing for dominance continues to this day. We saw it in two Iraqi Wars and the continual military-industrial support of Israel to our own country’s impoverishment.

Pre-Constitutional fervor

Even Hegseth’s claims to Constitutional fidelity, borne in the tattoo 1775, take an anachronistic off-ramp by celebrating a period before the United States was a fully formed nation. Combining that purposeful gap in patriotic fulfillment with an image of a deadly AR-15 rifle, created 200 years later, illustrates the irreconcilable inanity of Hegseth’s radical notions of what constitutes American ideals.

Proving that while Pete Hegseth is educated, he’s also willfully stupid. A Dumb Bro with a higher education degree is still a Dumb Bro.

The sick part of all this ill-educated symbolism is that the disgusting little prig had every opportunity to use his education and background to do somegood in this world. Instead, over time, he’s become a man addicted to many things; alcohol, sex, rule-breaking, adultery, lies, aggressive hyperbole, and death. He’s a fraud on par with his boss Donald Trump, and just as woefully bigoted, ignorant, and incurious. It

Selfishness as a worldview

But most of all, Hegseth is a selfish prick. He cares nothing about other people, other than to use them for his self-aggrandizing thirst for power and control. He stood before our nation’s generals spitting out threats amid calls for loyalty without having done a single thing to earn them.

Now, after retitling his responsibilities to the “Department of War,” he’s a man out of control and murdering people on the world’s oceans based on vague notions of “war” against the United States by people in little boats who could never reach our shores carrying drugs, if they were carrying any such cargo at all. We’re supposed to “trust the word” of the people carrying out the murders at sea that these boats are filled with dangerous drugs. But everyone allied with the Trump administration or forced to function in subservient roles is a demonstrated liar. Every. Single. One.

Turning Point terrorism

Another “pretty boy” fascist eager for death and destruction to bolster his sense of manhood

Thirst for Death

Hegseth’s addled-brained supporters love his unapologetic thirst for death. As reported by historian Heather Cox Richardson, “This evening, Andrew Kolvet of Turning Point USA posted on social media: “Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean.”

To which Hegseth turned around, quoted Kolvet, and commented: “Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat.” Richardson notes: The U.S. Southern Command confirmed the strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific, saying that “[i]ntelligence confirmed that the vessel was carrying illicit narcotics and transiting along a known narco-trafficking route…. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed.”

But even after they blow up the boats, they return to kill any survivors floating on the wreckage. These are war crimes by any definition of the word. But to Pete Hegseth, they are offerings to the Religion of Death he has tattooed across his body. This campaign is Pete Hegseth’s international Crusade, his Inquisition, and his Christo-fascist lust for bodies floating in blood to make himself feel like he’s serving the God of Destruction and Chaos. Hegseth is inked on the outside and hollow on the inside.

But he loves death, and he’s good at that it seems. Perhaps it was even Hegseth who did Turning Point’s “dirty work” in murdering Charlie Kirk? Who knows? There’s so much wanton killing, masked abduction and brutality, illegal ICE raids, warrantless beatings, and detention centers bordering on torture chambers that we can’t tell who’s killing who, or why?

It’s just “business as usual” in Trumplandia.

Like Father Trump, Like Son Hegseth

As long as we’re touching on Hegseth’s callow interests and Trumplike qualities, he also reportedly paid $50,000 to a woman who alleges he sexually assaulted her. Hegseth never effectively denied the encounter, only its nature. He insists it was “consensual.

As noted on the website 19thnews.org: “She reported the matter to police, but no charges were ever filed against Hegseth. He and his representatives have maintained that the encounter was consensual. At the time, Hegseth was still legally married to his second wife and had recently welcomed a child with the woman who would become his third. 

“Again, completely false charges against me. They were fully investigated and I was completely cleared,” he said in his January 14 confirmation hearing. 

“But you acknowledge that you cheated on your wife and you cheated on a woman by whom you had just fathered a child? You have admitted that,” pressed Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia.  

“I will allow your words to speak for themselves,” Hegseth said. 

Some contend that rape (or sexual assault) is as bad as homicide because of what it kills in the life of its victims. The National Library of Medicine seems to think so.

Why so many Americans have literal sympathy for the devil

/ Christopher Cudworth / 1 Comment

With police playing both ends of the game as protests and demonstrations broke out across the nation after the choking death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a section of lyrics from the Rolling Stones song Sympathy for the Devil came to mind.

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
‘Cause I’m in need of some restraint

Here’s both the beauty and the problem with a song such as Sympathy for the Devil. It is a masterpiece of rock satire, rich with insight into the motivations and corruptions of the human race. The Devil is both the cause and the foil of all these historic activities from the death of Jesus Christ to the murder of the Kennedys.

Yet given that the song has a title, “Sympathy for the Devil,” that can be literally construed as an apologetic for Satan, there are factions of people in this world that never comprehend the true meaning of the lyrics. They begin like this:

Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul to waste

It is critical to understand from the outset that the Satan character in question is an inherent part of human nature. Not a separate entity. Not an outside influence. Satan lives within us when we allow the “world” to take over our souls. That’s why they are “stolen” and laid to waste.

The song goes on to warn that the actions of the human race are complex, and that one individual can symbolize the plot, and the plight, of many who fall into the trap of worshipping power.

And I was ’round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate

Thus we find the refrain, brilliant composed to repeat itself throughout the song, in which the Devil reintroduces himself while tossing a cryptic statement out for our consideration:

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my gameI

Both Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had already seen much of how the world works by the time they composed Sympathy for the Devil. Rock stars gain a unique insight into the nature of idol worship in general. Combined with the worlds of unlimited drugs, sex and world travel, those two plucked symbols from history to illustrate how and why the world goes sour, and what the consequences are. It only takes a few cogent lines to encapsulate what happens when political upheaval tears into the fabric of society, and fascism runs over justice:

Stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vainI

Rode a tank
Held a general’s rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

Ah yes, the devil gets around alright. And he/she is always glad to meet someone willing to play the dangerous game of choosing sides with authoritarians and despots promising heaven while they create hell all around them.

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeahI

The sad, sick part in all this is religion’s role in making it all worse. Mick and Keith dared to suggest that many gods were manufactured in the name of God. That’s where the worship of money and indulgences, the power of tradition, and the nasty habits of oppression and repression come together. We’ve seen it here in America in the last three years, and for the previous sixty years before that. Right now the penchant of authoritarian worship is blowing up in our faces. Donald Trump is responsible for it all, right down to the cop kneeling on the neck of a black man on the streets of Minneapolis. Trump is an expression of all the works of the devil. The Seven Deadly Sins: pride, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, sloth, and wrath.

Watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made

I shouted out
Who killed the Kennedys?
When after all
It was you and me

At this point in the song, the Devil comes around to the original nature of his supposed virtues. The lyrics show that no innocent will escape his attention.

Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay

If you’re familiar with the song Sympathy for the Devil, you know how the searing guitars and Mick Jagger’s twisting voice turn the melody into a mocking tribute to the kind of all Con Men. He taunts and repeats the refrain, each time making it more obvious that the target of the song is often the perpetrator and a partner with the devil in committing evil deeds.

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game, mm yeah

Then the song takes a wicked turn to illustrate the threat of what’s really going on when the devil inside people takes control. Let’s recall that the murder of George Floyd took place right after the news cycle chewed on the death of a black jogger, Ahmaud Arbery, who was murdered by shotgun in Georgia earlier this year. The United States has embraced a brand of vigilante justice infecting both the public and the law enforcement world. This has turned the notion of law inside out and upside down. And we should not forget the long line of mass shootings during all this racist brutality as well.

Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
‘Cause I’m in need of some restraint

And then comes the bitter end, when Sympathy for the Devil wraps its arms around the issue of complicity and favoring those who claim righteousness while doing heinous work. One can almost imagine Donald Trump Tweeting these first few words…

So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste…

But the devil finally gives us a warning. Better wise up, people, or you’ll be sucked in.


Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste, mm yeah

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, mm yeah

From there, the song falls onto a steaming river of lament and teasing when the devil taunts the innocents and calls them honey and sweetie. One can almost imagine the honeys and sweeties at one of Donald Trump’s rallies; those big-haired, blue-eyed blondes in MAGA tee shirts and oversized breasts fawning over the Cheater In Chief. He meets the combined fantasies and treasured taboos of sexual provocateur possessed of great wealth and supposed moral virtue. Yet he also appeals to the Boys Club of politically cuckolded husbands and dispossessed gun-toters hoping for a target to assuage their pent-up rage. But most of all, Trump appeals to the the Victimhood Mentality of rabid apologists who hand on his every sympathetic word. That’s why evangelical Christians seeking a hero flocked to Trump as a communicator of their claims to persecution despite the fact that Christianity is the most privileged of religions in all of American history. It is a perversion of truth for Christians to claim that their liberties are being threatened by granting equal and civil rights to other members of society. And let’s recall that a literal and legalistic brand of Christianity was a principle player in the institution of slavery in the United States.

Do you get it now? Or shall we explain it again?

But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, mm mean it, get down Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah Oh yeah

One can imagine Trump standing over one of his fired cabinet members, Apprentice proteges or abused political appointments demanding them to repeat his name.

Tell me baby, what’s my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what’s my name
I tell you one time, you’re to blame

Did you catch that last line? That’s the gaslighting part of all this Trumpism. No matter what evil he does, or how many lies and excuses he uses to justify his own incompetency, Trump always tells the world someone else is to blame. Often it is those closest to him that suffer the most. And once he casts them aside, he taunts them publicly.

Oh, right What’s my name
Tell me, baby, what’s my name
Tell me, sweetie, what’s my name

But here’s the sad, sick truth in all this literal sympathy for the devil. Conservatives have long misunderstood and missed the messaging in social protest songs such as this. When Ronald Reagan played Born In the USA at his political rallies, he had no idea that the lyrics indicted all the things he stood for. And that’s what’s going on in America right now. The devil has all the literalists and slogan suckers in his grip, and all they choose to do is blame everyone else for their problems while spewing hate, gaslighting those who question them and filling the Internet with the repeated lies of the devil himself.

So perhaps it’s time to stop showing patience to the deplorable and depraved in this country, these people whose racist instincts and selfish lust for power have supported a man whose delay and denial of the pandemic have cost millions of people their jobs. If this were a different period in history, there would be a rush on the Capitol and Trump would be dragged to the guillotine and his head placed on a spike. Politically at least, that’s what should happen. But we’ll be lucky if we can even conduct a safe and legal election to remove him from office and begin to confront the sympathy for the devil that Trump supporters call Make America Great Again.

Can you guess my name?

Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Keith Richards / Mick JaggerSympathy For The Devil lyrics © Abkco Music, Inc. This blog originally published on GenesisFix.Wordpress.com by Christopher Cudworth.