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Ice, ice, what?
Steven L. Taylor
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Monday, January 1, 2024
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Via The Hill: Trump’s Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party features ’90s rapper Vanilla Ice.
Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, entertained the crowd at former President Trump’s resort alongside another 1990s pop culture staple, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
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The evening also included an Elvis impersonator, who Trump watched in a ballroom, seated at what appears to be a dinner table.
My brain hurts.
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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All I have today:
https://youtu.be/tiYcExcjNPY?si=2R94ORCVejT1EuPh
It’s something that MAGA apparently wants to get back to the Clinton years.k
All I have today:
https://youtu.be/tiYcExcjNPY?si=2R94ORCVejT1EuPh
It’s something that MAGA apparently wants to get back to the Clinton years.k
I don’t know about Mr. Ice, but I do know something about Michelangelo. I may be breaking a law in Florida, but Signor Buonarroti was gay. Are the Mar-a-lago people big supporters of gay cultural figures?
This hurts. So much brain hurt. Ouchies.
ETA but somehow I’m not surprised at this cheesy a double header entertainment for his orangeness.
What the fuck?
@Beth: TMNT 2 was the first time I ever saw Vanilla Ice. I had no idea who he was, but I thought he sucked, as did the film. (I was 14.) It’s about the absolute cringiest, cheesiest ’90s reference I could imagine, and that’s saying something.
I know he isn’t the only former rap star who went MAGA, but he’s kind of perfect for the movement: a white guy who lied about his past; he was kind of the George Santos of rappers.
Green Day changing a lyric to apply it to DJT for New Year’s Rockin’ Eve will do. But I kind of wish someone prominent would have invited YG to perform this.