{"id":2447146,"date":"2019-08-05T00:49:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=867326"},"modified":"2019-08-05T00:49:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T06:49:16","slug":"watch-barbra-streisand-mock-trump-with-send-in-the-clowns-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-barbra-streisand-mock-trump-with-send-in-the-clowns-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Barbra Streisand Mock Trump With \u2018Send in the Clowns\u2019 Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/GettyImages-1165985879.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/barbra-streisand\/\" id=\"auto-tag_barbra-streisand\" data-tag=\"barbra-streisand\">Barbra Streisand<\/a> had a message for the president during her headlining performance at New York City\u2019s Madison Square Garden. The singer took the opportunity to unveil a rendition of \u201cSend in the Clowns\u201d targeted squarely at Trump.<\/p>\n<p>During the show, which counted Hillary and Bill Clinton and U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler has attendees, Streisand commented that Trump has been blocking New York State from releasing his tax returns. \u201cJerry, you know what I\u2019m talking about,\u201d she added, referring to Nadler.<\/p>\n<p>Her new rendition of \u201cSend in the Clowns,\u201d which Streisand originally covered for her <em>The Broadway Album<\/em> in 1985,\u201d opens with the line, \u201cHe says he\u2019s rich\/ Maybe he\u2019s poor\/ \u2018Til he reveals his returns\/ Who can be sure?\/ Who is this clown?\u201d Her version continues: \u201cSomething\u2019s amiss\/ I don\u2019t approve\/ Now that\u2019s he\u2019s running the free world where can we move?\/ Maybe a town\/ Just who is this clown?\u201d She also calls him a fraudulent twit\u201d in another verse.<\/p>\n<p>Streisand continued to make her point after the song, when a photo of the White House covered in a circus tent appeared on the stage\u2019s screen. The image than shifted to one of Trump on his <em>Time<\/em> magazine 2016 Person of the Year cover with a red nose under the words \u201cClown of the Year.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s for real,\u201d Streisand noted, gesturing at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, that was meant to be a funny song,\u201d she added. \u201cBut what\u2019s going on just isn\u2019t very funny, because it would take me all night long to recite 11,000 lies. You know what I mean? But there\u2019s a line by Oscar Wilde that kind of describes this person. The line is: \u2018He\u2019s a man who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/barbra-streisand-trump-send-in-the-clowns-cover-867326\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbra Streisand had a message for the president during her headlining performance at New York City\u2019s Madison Square Garden. The singer took the opportunity to unveil a rendition of \u201cSend in the Clowns\u201d targeted squarely at Trump. During the show, which counted Hillary and Bill Clinton and U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler has attendees, Streisand commented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 17:41:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}