Incredible even for the dumbest of times that we’re suffering with the former president confusingly countering his critics with seeking to “wrap lies in patriotism,” Donald Trump has recorded a charity single with a choir of male inmates serving sentences in a Washington DC prison for their participation in the 6 January Insurrection. Merely a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance and a performance of The Star-Spangled Banner recorded over jailhouse phones, the song is only two minutes long and disappointingly not some highly-produced rendition of an original number—like We are the World but for aspiring authoritarians and useful idiots. Trump will soon join his choir from the other side of the bars, with any luck.
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