Posted on 12/05/2017 1:08:41 PM PST by drewh
Patti Smith’s long, slender fingers trembled just thinking about being a writer during the presidency of Donald Trump. “I don’t know how people are even able to contain themselves and contain their rage,” Smith said, “I always felt, even if I didn’t agree with whomever was our president, I felt that I could still walk tall wherever I want. I still was myself. But there’s something about this current administration where I feel tainted as a human being.”
On Monday night at the Whitney Museum in Manhattan, Smith and Salman Rushdie commiserated about Trump and otherwise compared notes on everything from the writing process to their favorite painters. They were guests at the annual “Chairman’s Evening” hosted by the MacDowell artist colony and were interviewed by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and MacDowell chairman Michael Chabon. MacDowell has a long history of bringing artists together and previous Chairman’s Evening pairings have included Martin Scorsese with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Stephen Sondheim with Paul Simon.
Both said that current events have made it harder for them to focus, but also more determined. Rushdie said the artist’s role was to “create beauty” and to “move beyond” Trump, at least in the writing process, because he’s “not interesting enough.” Smith said she saw her job as keeping “an eye on everything,” in case “we have to do something drastic” politically, and otherwise maintain a well-rounded existence.
“And I can’t let this guy (Trump), and what they’re doing, keep me from my inalienable right to do my work, to have some kind of joy in life,” she said.
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Yawn.
I’m sure you were tainted long ago Patti.
Liberals are apparently pathologically codependent.
Which policy of the Trump Administration does that? I've never heard anyone substantiate this crazy claim by identifying a specific policy.
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Yes, because President Trump is adept at shining lights on cockroaches.
Too bad she isn’t a human being. Who is Patti Smith?
Get over it. That's how those on our side felt for 16 years with the Clintons and Obamas.
Who???
I like Patty Smyth MUCH MUCH BETTER.
After accidently listening to her music I have to take a shower.
Patti’s stage presence has always embraced the ‘taint of it all. Just another lamb bleating with the herd.
No one can make you feel ‘tainted’. Maybe Trump just reminds you of something you already are?
I still cant get enough snowflake tears, even a year later... :)
Is that Patty Smyth with Scandal, or Patti Smith who WAS a scandal (I know, I plagiarized that one).
WHO??
She has tainted herself. Trump forces her to confront her true self.
I’d say “guess that’s why she’s a musician”, but as a musician also, and as one who knows lots of smart folks of all occupation, race, and education persuasions, we know why this girl just ain’t on the right side of the Bell Curve.
Isn’t she way past due for a fatal drug overdose? Patti girl, get with the program!
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