In 2010, Rolling Stone's korygrow saw Donald Trump leave halfway through a Roger Waters performance of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall.' What could he have learned if he'd stayed?
He sat there and watched the first half of the show, as Waters played a fictionalized rock star who gets seduced by fascism and starts blasting the pillars of education , taking advantage of groupies , and dropping bombs on foreign countries . As he sang, a physical wall was constructed around him until the final brick was put in place just before the intermission.
It was a jaw-dropping piece of rock theater — I loved the show so much I saw it three times. But Donald Trump apparently didn’t agree. As the second act started, I looked again and his seat was empty; he never returned to it. He had seen the wall go up, but he missed the second act, where Waters’ character faces a trial and finds redemption, tearing down the wall and renewing his faith in humanity. The second act, of course, is whythe empathy to give the rock opera balance.
Within a few months, Trump started his birther campaign against President Obama, and a few years later, he launched his presidential bid, sowing division with fascistic ideologies and, yes, promises of a wall on the Mexican border. Now, of course, I’m not saying that seeing the wall get built but not topple inspired Trump’s dogma or worldview, and I’m not saying that seeing Roger Waters play a character that became a demagogue cheered on by an arena influenced his future path — I don’t want to try to parse his psyche. But I did find the whole thing ironic when he ran for president.
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