With Donald Trump confirmed as the Republican nominee, a group of NeverTrump conservatives have tried to hit the former president somewhere vulnerable: the musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber. The Lincoln Project, an organisation led by old-school Republicans, has released a video parodying one of the tunes most associated with Trump’s rallies – the theme song from The Phantom of the Opera.
Trump has a profound love of musical theatre, particularly the work of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Since 2015, songs like ‘The Music of the Night’, ‘All I Ask of You’ and ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ have been part of his pre-speech soundtrack. He revealed in Think Like a Billionaire that he saw a production of Evita six times. Trump’s love of Lloyd Webber is so deep that when he would get angry in the Oval Office, an aide would soothe him by humming ‘Memory’ from Cats.
Some of the lyrics are bluntly effective, but the song still pulls its punches
So when the Lincoln Project launched their parody video ‘Phantom of the MAGA’, they expected it to sting.
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