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Trump had taken to playing Pavarotti's rendition of "Nessun Dorma," a song from the final act of Puccini's famous opera Turandot, at stops along the campaign trail. The song ends with a repetition of the Italian word "Vincero," which translates to "I will win."
During the campaign, Pavarotti's widow, Nicoletta Mantovani, demanded that then-candidate Trump stop playing the works of her late husband at his campaign events.
In a letter from Pavarotti's widow and his three daughters the family told the Trump campaign that, "[T]he values of brotherhood and solidarity that Luciano Pavarotti upheld throughout his artistic career are incompatible with the world vision of the candidate Donald Trump."
I listened to Trump on TV and then played the video a few times. I think the media is really being petty.
Yes, Trump is a lousy speaker when he goes off script, but he said "a great friend of mine" somberly as if he was remembering the man. He never said "is" a great friend. He was talking about dead people like Verdi and went on to mention Pavarotti. Now, if he said Verdi was a great friend, that would mean he's mentally ill and should resign immediately, since Verdi died in 1901, but I'll give him a pass on this one.
I guess when someone is a pathological liar, it's only natural to immediately jump on the guy, but I just don't see it.
Dumb yes. Important how? Or just another petty dig that makes you happy?
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