I banged on a piano a couple times but I’m not claiming to be a virtuoso.

He now expresses his love for music by playing the world's tiniest violin for people who are about to lose their Social Security and other benefits.

Putin said Donald is a wizard on the organ.

He's always had an aptitude for bs. That is all.

He played the spoons in Deliverance.

Is this the “access” that they all sold their souls for? How embarrassing.

Nero?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I would pay money to hear him pronounce aptitude right

Is this real? He really say that? Please tell me it is not a fake, because that is so stupid that this one is funny

He sure as fuck can’t dance.

I spent many happy hours at the Kennedy Center when I used to live in Washington. Too bad it's about to go the way of one of Trump’s casinos.

Doesn’t matter, the A team ain’t gonna show.

LOL. Being locked in the closet and having the NANNY play music as LOUD AS POSSIBLE to drown out your SCREAMING temper tantrums... is not the same thing.

And he is a dancer

A very very small whiny violin.

He said it, so it’s bullshit. Additionally, it takes patience, persistence and commitment to learn to play an instrument. He doesn’t do those things.

And a certain German was an aspiring painter….

That Prokofiev piano concerto that’s the most difficult one to play? Donald J. Trump can play it by ear. No just any ear, but the one that was nicked by plexiglass.

He’s got the music in him.

Playing a radio?

Maggie Fucking Haberman. Of fucking course.

I would rather walk into the sea than be Maggie Haberman.

Everywhere he goes he whines and hears the world’s smallest violins playing.

Trump is also a genius because he had an uncle at MIT.

Every time I think “this asshole’s self esteem couldn’t be weaker”…. BANG he gets me again

When prepubescent, Trump threw rocks at his neighbors’ three-year old child, before he was sent to a quasi-military boarding school. And he raped a woman in a department store dressing room when he was still a relatively young man! A precocious psychopathic criminal, and probably very musical, too!

The rhythm of the rocks bouncing off the baby carriage was music to his ears.

Yet another thing he claims to be good at. What a fucking surprise

And Hitler showed great potential as a painter…

Yeah, I remember he had this promising garage band, Donnie & The Dildos. But most of the band ended up drafted into Vietnam and their leader ended up with brain spurs.

OK, what was his opinion on silk tights?

Betcha he replaces that sculpture of JFK with one of himself

DJT having an aptitude for music sounds really wrong to me. Can anyone corroborate that statement?

There. Is. No. Bottom. Resist. Defeat. Replace. 2026

I've seen him dance. He sure has rhythm.

He had concepts of being a musician.

I wrote (ok, found) a poem about this claim in 2020! poetryoftrump.scherschligt.com/2020/02/11/i...

Trump était surement le meilleur musicien que ses professeurs avait entendu de leur vie 🤦‍♂️

I'd like to see this confirmed by somebody.

He can hum and dance to “YMCA”!

His father paid Leonard Bernstein to take the test for him.

He sure does.

People with musical aptitude can feel the beat and dance WITH it 🤣

He could absolutely shred on the air accordion.

His aptitude for music is almost on par with his daughter-inlaw's.

His natural sense of rhythm is most evident when he ‘dances’.

Man, he was good at everything as a child! Baseball Medicine Science Music Being born rich Geniusing

“If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.”

Hah! This is the first thing that popped in my mind. Perfect!

He believes he is the most gifted, the smartest, best looking, popular boy ever. Yawn. 🙄

But he didn't let that weakness get the better of him!

Making fart noises under your arm is not music.

But it is certainly a skill. Take it from me-- it's not easy!

I also had an aptitude for music as a child. I could play the radio like no one else. I thought I had absolutely nothing in common with Trump, but we shared an aptitude for music, go figure.

And I'm playing the smallest one.

The January 6th Hostage Choir sings The Songs of Burl Ives and Connie Francis

Hahaha - of course it’s the New York Times

No, I don't think so ...

"Yes, I did, I had a great aptitude, is that a word? It is now, I created a new word. I had a great aptitude for music, a great ear. See, I know that, right? I probably know more about music than anyone who's performed here. I played violin for Yehudi Menuhin once and he cried as he thanked me."

Not sure fart bubbles counts as an instrument.

And then there was Nero

Seriously, www.nytimes.com, you believe that shit?!

Is this like the uncle at MIT story? His cousin's brother's ex-girlfriend went to Julliard so that pretty much means he played in the New York Philharmonic

Kim Jong Trump!

He also says he was also a really good baseball player…coulda played in college (but didn’t).

Claimed he had an MLB tryout at the same time as Willie McCovey, saw how good he was and gave up baseball. Problem is, McCovey had already been Rookie of the Year by the time Don claimed the tryout happened. (See last year’s book Lucky Loser for more details.)

I have that book. Need to read it soon. There was a sportswriter or sports agent that went full bore on $Trumps sports lies. It was either his 2000 run for prez or his 2012 run when they picked ROMNEY 😂. Anyways this guy just went deep and found squat on him ever playing anything but soccer.

I thought I read he was a decent high school baseball player, i.e. he played some and was part of the team, but he exaggerated it to he was the next Mickey Mantle.

He has said that forever. But he went to New York Military Academy. A few people on the baseball team remembered him but then he disappeared into New York. It looks like he missed whole semesters there and there’s not a picture anywhere of him in a roster. Blue bloods take pictures of everything!

He borrowed another kid’s uniform for the yearbook portrait*. The kid who’d actually won all the awards and had pretty braid and medals on the tunic. Stolen honor, even before he stole the coat of arms! *I think this is in Lucky Loser, too.

Oh my gosh. You’re going to make me read this! 😂

😄😆😆 Honestly, I’m only ~150 pages in and have set it aside for lighter reading (mysteries) for the time being.

Yeah, I just can't read any more books on him, I read a few but I prefer reading to not think about him!

Mysteries - I tend towards cozies, historicals, and Robert Crais - are satisfying in these times because Justice is generally done.

😆 I have yet to read Commander-in-Cheat by Rick Reilly.

Ok. So I watched the BBC documentary on Trump and then read Commander in Cheat during Season 1. I can’t stomach anymore. I’ve got atleast 4-5 Trump books that I move around in piles. He raises my BP too much with family medical history 😂. I’m afraid I’ll kill over.

Yeah, same!😄 was hoping to read them in happy retirement from him being anywhere close to the Oval Office again. Alas…

$Trump supposedly played like 1/2 a season of football in junior high? Except daddy Fred shipped him off to military school and they have zero record of this. He did tryout to play baseball for Fordham but quit. #Krasnov has been spewing this bullshit for decades and like 2 people have “verified”

Trump was likely as good at music as he was at baseball, which was not good at all. See below: www.footballarchaeology.com/p/trumps-bas...

Too bad his hall of fame baseball career got in the way of his music career.

Did he develop the aptitude before he punched his music teacher, or after? www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump...

I just want to see him face the music. I have no interest in his wingnut fantasies.

Maggie Haberman special.

What isn’t he good at? Oh, I know, being a President!

Ace reporter, Maggie Haberman, with the inside scoop! There's a Pulitzer coming for this one.

what a waste of a human being

You can see it in the way he grooves to the sophisticated refrains of The Village People

Hitler wanted to be an artist.

And then there was Nero

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Well, he drew his mushroom enough times that was fairly sketchy.

Most insane people have something they thought they would be great at.

If only they had been. It would have changed history.

Nero (supposedly) played the violin too.

I'm shocked how far I had to scroll down to see this.

Yes and Hitler liked to paint, what’s his point?

They are such unbelievable losers

Actual video of Trump and his talent

Now he only plays the world's tiniest violin

When I got to this part I had to triple check that this was not a parody piece.

He also played a sitting US president - Trump

Is this anything like his aptitude for baseball?

No person that “dances” the double circle jerk has an aptitude for music

You got that right.

Second story in a day on his elitist obsession as all the #climatecrisis deaths in red states continue to go uncovered. Biden was hounded over "where is FEMA?" and Oklahomans and Mississippians etc. are totally forgotten.

Y-M-C-A

Hitler and W did oil paintings

But had no soul.

Sorry you didnt pursue that career.

Charles Manson just wanted a record deal

This POS never had an aptitude for music. You have to have feeling.

That shadow play in the photo is an obscenity.

Soon he’ll replace NPR, and we’ll all be required to listen to him sing Soprano first thing in the morning and last thing at night, in accompaniment to our prayers for his Eternal Presidency

DPRK NYTimes: Even as Child, Trump had Juche!”

Haberman. of course

Piano. Woman. Violin. Camera. TV. There, I have one of those aptitudes too.

Unfortunately, Trump's musical ambitions were cut short by his bone spurs.

BS he would say anything to manipulate someone.

And he’s a golf champion too!!!!!

Only Trump would equate playing notes on a piano with an aptitude for music. It's clear that half of the voting public in this country cannot recognize aptitude, much less expertise.

Hitler was an artist!

Who in the hell is his tailor?

And Hitler was a painter.

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Maggie “access journalism”Haberman. Surprised she didn’t save this juicy scoop for her next book.

Yep, that's how you get elected

Trump played his mushroom.

Hitler painted. Fin.

Trump also had the aptitude to throw rocks at babies as well.

It was thoroughly self-serving, so of course he did.

I'm sure his mommy told him he was a genius at a lot of things 🙄

JFC🙄 This is the type of SHIT @nytimes.com Maggie Haberman spends her life writing about for HER audience of ONE. Putin's thugs Trump/Elon have literally KILLED people around the world through their irresponsible/illegal DOGE & are trying to kick seniors off #SocialSecurity but this from Haberman...

Before or after she gives a blowjob to Trump’s tiny mushroom?

Maggie writing fluff about her professional obsession, Donald Trump.

The Führer was a terrific dancer

Shame on NYTimes. People dying, loss of jobs/income and our democracy in the line and they find this newsworthy. Placating trump and enabling a fascist. Please look at The history of Hitler and learn how you are not without blame

He is a man completely devoid of art. None. Nada. Nyet.

Gives “Devil Went Down to Georgia” new meaning

"When I was 19 a man came up to me while I was singing a song, a wonderful, beautiful song, the best song ever, I think you know the one I'm talking about, the one that goes 'My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R,' and he had tears in his eyes and he said, 'Sir, you sing like an angel, sir.'"

He had concepts of an aptitude.

He had aptitude, and either he was too damn lazy to actually pick up an instrument and learn and/or there wasn’t enough money in the world to teach little Donny how to do something difficult that requires practice and dedication. He might have had aptitude for music but he had none to be a musician.

He played the armpit too?

This fucking rag again

Maggie, again

Maybe they'll reprint his screed about his MIT-grad uncle reflecting his own intelligence

Wait until they hear who had an aptitude for painting.

Eddie Izzard's take: "I can't get the trees fucking right! I will kill everyone in the world!"

For those who might not get the reference, it's from Dress To Kill, which happens to be one of the best stand-up routines I've ever seen. If you can't get past a "bloke wearing a lot of makeup" you might pass. And re-evaluate your priorities while you do.

Izzard is one of the greats of comedy.

The encode in French is brilliant!

It certainly is

1st thing I thought. Hopefully Maga Haberman's name lives on with the same loathed infamy as Walter Duranty is now seen.

Holy moly spot on!

Of course it's got a Haberman byline.

I'm sure there was a day, at least one, surely, where he had an aptitude for kindness and decency.

Sorry, nope.

And that one time that he played? The music was beautiful....unlike anything anybody had ever played before. Every note was perfect!

Please, I want him to play violin badly on stage while his cabinet applauds let me just have this

Anyone who’s seen his groundbreaking double dong jerk dance knows this to be true.

America just can’t wait to see his Elvis tribute act.

Yeah, the only instrument he plays is the ass trumpet

Kim Jong Il actually wrote an opera. Somehow, both his son and Trump combined managed to have even less culture.

watching that arrhythmic moron try to dance and its immediately clear he has zero aptitude for music

Didn't Charles Manson play music, too?

Yep! One of his songs was even recorded by the Beach Boys!

I understand he could have been a pro baseball player too (special shoes for the bone spurs?)

DJT was never a child! It’s a misnomer!

Sure.

Sure Donny! 😂🤣😂🤣😉

I cannot stop laughing at this: Asked about the anecdote, Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, did not directly address it but said that the president “is a virtuoso and his musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors when others often paint in pale pastels.”

And a better painter than Hitler!

Trump once sang in his school's choir and was compared to Yoko Ono.

His guitar playing has been compared to Metal Machine Music-era Lou Reed.

two idiots conversing

The closest he ever got to music was the time he hit on Madonna. She was like.....

He should take up the fiddle since everything is on fire anyway.

Saying that any child “has an aptitude for music” is relatively close to saying they have an aptitude for language. Of course they do, but you know…

How long before he decides that HE needs to give a concert, absolutely sure in his madness that his attempts to play piano or violin or whatever are perfect, beautiful, and wonderful? And his fans will applaud wildly when he does.

The first felon had an ear for music in the same way he had a talent for baseball...NOT

I don't understand how the NYT has come to this place. I know I've seem them do it a dozen times before, But I always wanted to hope the best for them

The fuck he did. This is just him being a narcissist.

And Der Fuhrer was mesmerized by Wagner’s operas as set out in Mein Kampf. The composer’s daughter in law Winifred was among his closest friends…called him Uncle Wolfie…

Yes, I could tell Have you not seen him dance? With those moves, it’s obvious he’s gifted. 🙄

"Asked about the anecdote, Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, did not directly address it but said that the president “is a virtuoso and his musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors when others often paint in pale pastels.”

Apparently the NYT can also be played like a violin.

Trump is the ultimate “bubble boy”.

You have to have a sense of rhythm to have an aptitude for music.

Kind of like when trump said he could have been a baseball player because he was a good “thrower”.

Of course it's Maggie Haberman. Sycophant to the end.

Thanks for saving me the effort to go to the NY Times to verify it was her who "wrote" this article.

I always look to see if she or Peter Baker is involved.

Notice they didn't open the post to comments...

And Hitler was an aspiring artist.

Hitler wanted to be a painter

Bone spurs keep him from music lessons?

Hot Cross Buns on the recorder world champion

And now his aptitude is playing the skin flute for Putin and Musk

“If you are speaking of music...it is of all subjects my delight. There are few people in England I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient." -Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Pride and Prejudice

Dammit, came here to post this.

Same! I just watched it, so it was fresh in my mind.

Maggie Haberman as Mr Collins.

Thank you so much! This was absolutely my first reaction to this article.

Oh my god I’m not the only one who thought of her

Yes! Thought of this immediately!

His nanny must have given him a kazoo.

STAIN.

John Wilkes Booth was an actor. In a theatre. Like the Kennedy Center.

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Is that when he was introduced to the village people and started doing the jerk off Dance?

This MFer can’t even play a radio let alone a musical instrument.

Why doesn’t the article mention that ugly-ass bright blue suit and the fact that he looks like he just wandered in off the street and doesn’t know where he is?

Nero also played an instrument

He looks so ridiculous and laughable. Is MH doing this deliberately as can’t imagine even she buys this.

Personnel anecdote? How about what's its antidote? Poisonous shit it is.

Fucker couldn't play the radio.

Well, he's clearly got rhythm...

His music probably consisted of whining in three different octaves.

Not to brag, but I was pretty good at Tuba. I feel like this entitles me to the eastern seaboard

NYT hit a new low.

“Mr. President, define ‘aptitude’”…..

"There are few people in England, I suppose, who have more true enjoyment of music than myself, or a better natural taste. If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient."

That's right up there with, "look mommy, I made doody."

A two byline story! What an embarrassment of a newspaper.

Putin's boy, Donald Trump, is working hard to Make The Soviet Union Great Again!