Donald Trump likes a Russian bass
NewsA reader reminnds us:
On November 9, 2016, the Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov posted a joint photo with Donald Trump on his Instagram feed. Ildar had just enjoyed a round of golf with Trump at Trump Golf Links Ferry Point.
He concluded the post: ‘Congratulations, Mr. President!’
The bass is now safely back home in Putin’s embrace.
Wow. Yet another reason to hate the guy! Obviously a consistent supporter of terrorists and war criminals.
There is no such photo in Ildar Abdrazakov’s Instagram feed.
Unless Abdrazakov has deleted the photo, I believe you have been fooled by artificial intelligence, Mr. Lebrecht.
Is this 2015 Palm Beach Opera event featuring Abdrazakov, honorary host chairs Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Trump, also a fake?
https://pbopera.org/event/annual-gala-an-evening-with-ildar-abdrazakov/
How about this comedy act?
And where was Don Rickles when you needed him?
https://images.app.goo.gl/8yJWrDgsrxQWuKR7A
Or this?…
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/nyhetsfoto/russian-president-vladimir-putin-singer-placido-domingo-and-nyhetsfoto/167934409
Whatabouism of the finest quality. Please also educate yourself, what is the meaning of “Honorary chair.”
But is the picture of Mr. Trump and Mr. Abdrazakov real? I’m looking for sources of it, but the only site showing it is Slippedisc.
Serge,
So, history has a new word: “whataboutism” (?)
if there’s anything we have gained from the internet age, it’s that the internet never forgets
Dear Novagerio,
you’re absolutely right, the Internet does not forget. But in this case: Where is the picture from, and why is it nowhere to be found except on Slippedisc?
Dear Sergey,
I wish you had the same critical eye when browsing your morning Pravda (”Truth”) in Moscow.
Dear Jean,
I’m intrigued by your attention, but the question remains: Where is the original source for the picture?
Good catch. The apologists will always cite the fake media instead of the facts.
Oh no, no! Muti loves this bass too! Muti has picked him, so many times, has chosen him – the great Russian Putin bass – even after the war started! And we know that Muti can do no wrong, Muti is infallible! Just like Trump!
Muti is also a buddy of Gerard Depardieu, they did Berlioz together. A nice video of Gerard having dinner with Putin here after getting Russian citizenship:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JDSNxgLRAM
Muti also loves Russia (just like Trump and Depardieu); he has chosen an overload of Russian music in his last season over here, and he has won the Russia Order of Friendship, conferred to him by Putin. Muti has been so proud of his Putin-conferred award since he has received it, but recently he has tried to hide it, we don’t know why. The award has disappeared from his website – maybe some Russian hackers took it off?
We don’t know, it’s very bizarre. We hypothesize that Muti still has the award, we are just not sure, since he has been very uncharacteristically quiet and shy about this matter since the war started (he has not bragged about it anymore).
However, we have to look at the big picture and no doubt the Putin award has always been one of his favorite awards to make sure his fans knew about: it was printed on the CSO program books for years (between the Queen award, and the Pope award); it was reported in this great Muti profile article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/8386177/Riccardo-Muti-a-profile.html
Muti has also been nominated honorary member of the Russian Academy for the Arts, presided by the same sublime artist who sculpted the immortal statue of Putin dressing a kimono: Zurab Tsereteli.
(https://www.alamy.com/russian-sculptor-tsereteli-poses-with-a-bronze-statue-of-president-putin-dressed-in-kimono-at-his-workshop-in-moscow-russian-sculptor-zurab-tsereteli-poses-with-a-bronze-statue-of-russian-president-vladimir-putin-dressed-in-a-kimono-at-his-workshop-in-moscow-the-statue-is-to-finish-tseretelis-collection-of-famous-individuals-like-the-princess-of-wales-or-moscow-mayor-yuri-luzhkov-picture-taken-april-21-2004-reuterssergei-teterin-image381008707.html)
Nice pic of Muti with the Russians here, at the end of 2021, just a couple of months before the war started!!
https://newsrnd.com/life/2021-10-28-riccardo-muti-honorary-academic-of-russia.r1m3Ux_LF.html
According to Wikipedia, in March 2014 Tsereteli was reported to have signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia’s military first intervention in Ukraine.
It is nice to received awards from both Putin and Tsereteli !!
Long live Riccardo and Russia!
“The bass is now safely back home in Putin’s embrace.” As is Donald Trump.
Yeah,Pootin´s little puppet…..Those videos with the Russian prostitutes…
Does anyone really CARE what Trump thinks or likes or wants?
This post is about Ildar, not Donald. It was an unfortunate job and not his fault…those for Putin, his choice.
Only around half the population of the USA
About 45% of Americans identify as Republican; of those, about 54% currently support Trump, according to polls.
Looking at the total voting population, that would place him at about 25% support from the total pool of voters in the US.
The game is far from over.
Well the Democrats have been absolutely obsessed with him for years now. They want revenge for him ‘stealing’ their election in 2016. Not that they had a shocker of a candidate then, or anything…!!
The Democrats had one of the most qualified and experienced candidates in the history of the office.
The world would have been much different today. The only losers would have been cable news for lack of controversy.
Likely that Trump also likes Putin for fulfilling his agenda in Germany: – away with NordStream, import gas from America, build cars and motorways, f*ck Greta, and feed the war against communists!
how about not trying to generate hate and focusing on facts, rather than twisting situations to it a narration of provocation. As if now US is better with the current president. the guy sings like a god and avoids saying his personal thoughts in social media.
Actually, yes, the US is better with the current President. At least he knows better than to suggest people should drink bleach.
And Donald Trump will be singing like a soprano in the prison shower.
(Don’t worry! Secret Service is required to accompany the former president everywhere, including the prison shower.)
High coloratura!!!!! Meanwhile,ketchup is flying high at Mar ass Lago.
It was actually on November 9th as my blog post from that day can confirm. Also a more complete screenshot is posted there if anyone is mistrusting the photo above
https://operacreep.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/a-bass-with-no-balls/
Cadet Bone Spurs can count himself lucky to live in 2023,not 1953.Back then,he would have been grilled on the electric chair for treason,like the Rosenbergs….Rightly so…My families fled to the US and England in 1939,from Hitlerdeutschland…..It´s the same story…Riff raff gets elected by riffraff.
I’ll bet that was one pisser of a round of golf.
Is Donald Trump a closet Russian spy? I would not trust the bugger to go to the shops for a packet of Woodbines. His taste is the epitome of kitsch.
If his trial ends with a conviction it will be his only genuine one to date. The man is not fit for purpose.
Thank you for the warning. In future, I will be very careful who I play golf with, in case 8 years later they get cancelled by progressive racists.
Well, he’s just “withdrawn” from his upcoming Boston performances. Good thing. It would be grotesque to have a Putin ally performing the Babi Yar Symphony.
It looks as if the news that Russiagate was a hoax bought by the Clinton campaign has not yet reached the white cliffs of Dover…
What a pity!
You are promoting here hate against an artist and you are bullying him without knowing anything about him. I wish artist will wake up and fight against this trash