Performing to a sold-out crowd including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Sharpton and Jerry Nadler, the legendary singer took the opportunity to launch into biting political commentary.
"How many Democrats are in the room tonight?" asked Barbra Streisand during her concert at New York City's Madison Square Garden Saturday night. It's not a question you usually hear from a performer during a show. But it was certainly a reasonable one, considering what was to follow.
"I can't say it, I can't say it," Streisand laughed, as she cut herself off. The audience erupted into cheers and a standing ovation as a mocked-up picture of Trump wearing clown make-up appeared on the giant video screen behind her. "Several of my political pals are here this evening," Streisand announced early in the evening, describing Sharpton as someone who's bearing "the brunt of Trump's wrath these days" and thanking Nadler for "fighting to uncover the truth and for all you're doing to protect our democracy." But she had the most effusive praise for the Clintons, saying that they were "two people I deeply admire and am proud to call friends.
Streisand has always been politically passionate. And now at age 77, she's staked out an unlikely position as a protest singer. Her most recent album,, was a thinly veiled musical criticism of Trump, highlighted by the blistering number "Don't Lie to Me." She didn't perform that song this evening, but she did sing the title track, which features such lyrics as "We should be building bridges to a better day/Where no walls would stand in the way.
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