.... Wtf is going on 🤨

"Well, you know I'm very good friends with Dave Bowie. He used to tell me I was a genius. I have all his books. He signed them To Mr. Trump My Favorite Genius. He was at Mar-A-Lago last weekend. Doesn't know golf. It's fine. He's a good kid. He likes me."

Please not Bowie.

Maybe ‘Ashes to Ashes’?

Or "God is An American"? www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3c...

Keep the dream alive

"We're clean on OpSec"

So it's the scene from Ferris Bueller?

Love that he's in his Ferris Bueller's Day Off era

music being piped out by the pool? marvelous!

I’m guessing he hasn’t read the book

I believe the term is called "proof of life" and so far they haven't offered any tonight. The must be working on some AI. bsky.app/profile/mari...

Or interviewing convincing doubles available for golf games this weekend.

The giveaway is Trump is in policy meetings. Sure.

He's on the patio having some drinks...

just a gay 1980s guy from NY

Literally nobody thinks Trump just gets in a mood to blast some Bowie now and again.

He is also a narcissist and can’t help but persist through all news cycles. His silence is indicative that something is seriously wrong (or right..)

Yep. When was the last time we heard “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”?

There's no way Timp listens to musical theater.

that he’s a huge andrew lloyd webber fan is 101 level trump lore

whenever he gets really upset his soother has to play memories from cats

He's about to become a memory

sooner rather than later in any case

He does and Les Mis is famously his favorite show lol

Really? I suppose you can be a fan of something and still not grasp the themes of the story.

He’s played “Do You Hear the People Sing?” at rallies before 😭 just a complete lack of media literacy and self awareness lol

Sidebar: I do listen to "Do You Hear the People Sing?" but only in Spanish (and I don't speak or understand Spanish).

Well... no one ever accused a conservative of possessing media literacy and self-awareness.

Seemingly he only likes the big '80s shows -- Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Phantom, Cats) and Boublil/Schönberg (Les Mis). It fits -- those are from his NYC heyday, and they're all big, overblown spectacles; watching them requires no empathy, joy, wit, or working memory.

I'll confess that I used to be a big Webber fan, but when I started paying attention to the lyrics and the stories... Webber is a big creeper. I used to have a favorite song, but when I learned it was sung to an underage girl... I quickly tossed that one into the dumpster.

*one of his favorites, I briefly forgot Cats exists

“Quick, someone clog the Lincoln toilet and order a steak from the kitchen, with extra Hunts!”

#StarTrek #DS9 season 6 episode 10, The Magnificent Ferengi, is exactly this only with a remote control. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mag...

Love that episode. Bonus is Iggy Pop!

Gawd I'd forgotten this! I also didn't know who Iggy Pop was until I watched an interview someone in the production team and they were raving about him. But I'd already registered that this dude and his voice were perfect casting here.

I look forward to watching this

This is one of my favourite episodes!

My son convinced me to watch DS9 recently 😁

Do tell him from me oh hiiii, fellow fan! 😀 IT'S SO GOOD. The character development and story arcs are fab. Amazing how they can do serious and funny in the same show.

Absolutely! ❤️

Listen I didn't think he was dead until I read that lmao

they're playing Andrea Bocelli? bro is fuckin dead

When my grandmother was passing we played her favorite music in the hospital, so this is pushing me more to the "hes not dead yet, but I should prep the champagne."

The howling laugh I made at this.

Or maybe just a bad breakup

Wouldn’t he have just played YMCA on repeat?

I am going to go to sleep, checking in with you in the morning

Classic hay boy

God, I just realized that when he does go, they're absolutely going to pull a "Weekend at Bernie's".

I enjoy imagining him biting the dust, but struggle to imagine it playing out like this. The circle of people who would know immediately is large, and he's surrounded by power hungry narcissists who would be knifing over each other to exploit the moment--not Weekend at Bernie'sing to delay it.

They forgot to include Tiny Dancer on the proof of life playlist

He lived an amazing life, what can you say

That there's a "proof of life" playlist is a new level of cringe 😂

And yet they haven't bothered to get him on video

Ferris bueller shit

If this ends up being how I found out he died I will never get over it

If this is the case, I will sign a petition to make this our national anthem

That sounds like Melania celebration music. Bowie?

Bwahahaha

There is no rose garden.

okay this is going into Death of Stalin territory lol

Who do we think knelt in the puddle?

He’s def gone

If Trump were dead, I think that there would have been a leak already and Vance would have stepped in. If he's (temporarily) incapacitated, that's 25th amendment territory, and no one would want to be involved: Trump might recover, after which all hell would break loose.

Yes, sadly I think this music thing suggests that this absence is misdirection of some kind. He is probably going to show up with fanfare in Russia or China to do some photo op discussed as a "summit."

*hand to ear* we’re getting word that Ave Maria is being played at a very high volume.

Where are the kids? That might be an indicator if they suddenly start to gather in one place. Unless they don't care. Maybe time to rewatch the movie Dave.

Weekend at Donny’s.

People: Who's the media interview with? White House: You wouldn't know them, they're from Canada. They are definitely real.

There is no rose garden.

For the next year

Interesting that he didn't go to his New Jersey property... 🤔

That's just Melanoma popping bottles.

ppl doing Weekend at Bernie’s jokes before but then THIS…

music to die to

god on hiiiiiiiiigh

Like I need to know the Bowie and MJ selections

Bowie: “Lazarus” MJ: “Man in the Mirror”

The fact that they felt like they had to make this report suggests they’re already losing the rumor game here

“could a dead man be blasting les miz???” is objectively funny, props to the WH for that one

I just need everyone to agree that JD Vance, who JUST said he's ready to be president if Trump dies, killed Trump like he killed the Pope and all on the orders from Thiel.

Unlike killing the pope, killing the President if necessary is part of the Vice President's job description. *rereads the 25th amendment* Umm, we're gonna need a Supreme Court ruling on that one.

This is the stuff all-nighter's are made of; alas... Turning on alerts. 🌙 lovelies.

i think his absence is only registering because he never shuts up. biden used to vanish for weeks at a time and it was business as usual

Imagine if it was Cats lol

he loves Memory!!! Wonder how he feels about Beautiful Ghosts

felt?

Playing his greatest hits as one last tribute 😅

Question, do we know if blasting Les Mis in this way is a normal thing that happens normally

My "he's blasting les mis outdoors at midnight, stop asking questions" shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt.

It looks like that was PM, not AM... but we don't know that he ever *stopped*.

That would require actual reporting by the WH press corps.

I was hoping for Swan Lake

They're gunna do a whole Weekend At Trump's thing

*ahem* ONE DAY MOOOOORE…

“Dead Mennnn Play Les Mizzzz” - Dread Pirate Donny

I cackled at this. Thank you.

But like, do they not realize the irony of Le Mis in the context of *all of this*

Events have shown that they absolutely do not. It is a tiny consolation to us that we do, perhaps.

Ferris Bueller shenanigans...

I take it back "the les mis was a cover up" is how I want to learn

Trump takes one last shot at France by having it be called “The Miserables” in his obituary.

The American Swan Lake

no one will be more disappointed if that’s how we find out than Lin-Manuel Miranda

He can take it

No one else was in the room where it happened.

It would be a fittingly Valjeanesque act of self sacrifice

I dunno, I feel like he might go full ham for Hamilton for a couple days.

I'd more check which Bowie song. 'Lazarus' would be something.

They're playing the piano solo from Aladdin Sane on loop

Trump now distracting from Epstein by doing nothing. We're doomed.

Weekend at Valjean’s.

immaculate

[insert joke here about how Gorbachev played Swan Lake but Trump plays Les Mis]

Ohhh, that's why people keep posting that!

The sound of limp bizkit emanating from the rose garden will herald Vance's ascension to the presidency.

"I did it all for the settee (Come on) the settee So you can take the chaise lounge And stick it up your (yeah) Stick it up your (yeah) Stick it up your (yeah)”

Bugs bunny voice: “would a dead man be blasting Les mix?” Bugs Bunny doing a cop voice: “eh… he might, rabbit, he might.”

He's just getting ready for the barricades in Chicago 😏

Singing the songs of dead men

“I dreamed a dream” is a little too on the nose for me.

Clear evidence again that they do not understand the plot of Les Miz, where 95% of the entire cast is singing from heaven by the end

Trump lying dead in his bedroom and Scavino going “shit, was it Les Miz or Phantom?”

“Guys, did he like Gilbert and Sullivan? Quick, search his Zenplayer for Modern Major General”

Before any zenplayer enthusiasts come at me: the iPod was a battery operated external hdd and the zune could squirt. The Zenplayer couldn’t do anything cool.

I am the very model of a modern fascist president I'm holed up in the White House with the best physicians resident They're blasting out Les Miserables to cover up my awful screams While JD Vance is in the Oval Office eating fondant cremes...

Amazing, I just want to change “eating fondant cremes” to “humping sofa seams”

That's it, these 2 skeets win the "Did Trump Die Or Not (August 2025)" joke contest, we can all go to bed now

Excellent, record it at once

playing Swan Lake would be too on the nose

Great minds think alike :)

bsky.app/profile/smit...

youtube.com/shorts/mXgWf...

I played my mom's favorite music when she was near the end. It did calm her and she passed within a few hours. I'm simply sharing this totally unrelated fact.

He's resting. And he's probably pining for the fjords.

“Play him whatever he wants to ease his passing, it will keep his mind off the pain”

Trump doesn’t give a fuck about music

This president is no more! It has ceased to be! He's expired and gone to meet its maker! He's a stiff! Bereft of life, he rests in peace!

Les Mis = WH version of Swan Lake.

famously not a death song either

I still don’t dare let myself believe just yet, but “his music just happens to be loud enough for everyone to hear and it also just happens to be his pre-rally playlist” is certainly not convincing me it isn’t true.

Weird Al's dad: what the *grabs body* it's a hay boy!

He’s listening to his favorites on his way out

Meanwhile, I'm here playing The Man Who Would Be King by Iron Maiden. Thinking of making a whole Trump is dead playlist.

"King-Nothing"-by-Metallica

waiting for them to start playing swan lake

Maybe he had a stroke they rushed him to the hospital. They removed it. He’ll be out tomorrow.

“Macho Man” will be playing as rigor mortis sets in

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