saturday night live In response to the indictment of Donald Trump, former President James Austin Johnson “sang” along to a song he planned to release as part of an album to raise money to pay his lawyers.
Johnson noted the lucrative effect of the outrageous single “Justice for All” featuring the J6 prison choir.
“That song made a lot of money, so I said why stop there. That’s why I’m putting out a new album: This is what is called my legal defense fund,alias trump bopsAnd I’ll bring all the hits,” Johnson said, referring to the long-running series of similarly titled compilation albums.
Johnson tweeted some of the Black Crowes’ “Hard to Handle” lines and performed a duet on “Islands in the Sun” with Kenan Thompson, who played boxing promoter and Trump’s friend Don King. and moaned the chorus. Add a bit of Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic” and some anti-drug sidekicks to Afroman’s “Because I Got High” played by Devon Walker.
“Wow, my God! Only 30 classic covers, and they’re all terrible,” said Johnson.
The album includes “Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2” by Ice Spice and The Pink Pantherless. SNLMikey Day, who plays the all-too-enthusiastic Donald Trump Jr., joins in, disappointing his father.
“It’s such a strange energy, son,” Johnson said before Day awkwardly left the stage.
Johnson closed with a callback to Trump’s tweet in light of Trump’s expected arraignment on Tuesday encourage supporters Join us for the “Stop the Steal” rally on January 6, 2021.
“Manhattan, see you on Tuesday,” he said ominously.
