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The Greatest Troll Ever by Trump But Not Many Understood It
San Angelo Live ^ | JUL 19, 2024 | JOE HYDE

Posted on 07/21/2024 4:45:12 AM PDT by Indy Pendance

MILWAUKEE, WI — At the end of former President and U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump's 90-minute acceptance speech, the sounds of opera opened with "Nessun Dorma" ("Let No One Sleep"), a majestic musical piece performed by tenor Christopher Maccio.

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However, the aria also has a more sinister connotation beyond its original intention in the opera. It is featured in the 2002 film "The Sum of All Fears," based on Tom Clancy's 1991 novel. This political thriller, a sequel to "Clear and Present Danger" (1989), involves CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan, who attempts to prevent a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union circa 1985. Ryan faces entrenched bureaucrats from both sides and a missing nuclear warhead, which each side uses to further their agendas. At the end of the movie, Ryan is triumphant in preventing a nuclear holocaust, and "Nessun Dorma" plays. The camera shifts to various antagonists who meet their deaths by car bombs, throat slashing, and other means.

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Trump often claims to be a victim of the deep state or the swamp, and he promises to drain the swamp if elected. Although the violent scenes accompanied by "Nessun Dorma" in "The Sum of All Fears" are intense, they may serve as a hyperbolic metaphor for Trump's campaign rhetoric. Performing it after his triumphant speech at the RNC convention might be one of the most ingenious trolls of all time.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: music; r; rnc; trump
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To: heartwood

And you want to play “the devil’s advocate”?


41 posted on 07/21/2024 5:59:34 AM PDT by Shoefus
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To: heartwood
Might be time to invest in a new username.

I don't think so. Let me answer your scripture with the following events that U.S. Christians enjoined: Revolutionary War, Civil War, WW1, WW2.

42 posted on 07/21/2024 6:00:20 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: heartwood
If you want to know what this article is, pay attention to this line:

"...Trump often claims to be a victim of the deep state or the swamp, and he promises to drain the swamp if elected..."

That is what it is-it says that what we all saw Trump subjected to via state-sponsored lawfare was only something Trump "claims", not what really happened.

Any other word or thought in this opinion piece is suspect.

43 posted on 07/21/2024 6:03:13 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: dforest

A lady has cleared up a lot of this.

In the English version the translation to the end of the song is “we will win, we will win, we will win”

Maybe that is why it was used in the “Sum of All Fears”.

>> the o makes it singular i beleive.

In the famous aria “Nessun dorma” from Puccini’s opera Turandot, the character Calaf sings “Vincerò!” (“I will be victorious”) as he looks forward to winning the hand of the princess Turandot.


44 posted on 07/21/2024 6:07:12 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Indy Pendance

Luciano Pavarotti did a better version. It was his signature piece.


45 posted on 07/21/2024 6:11:32 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: rlmorel

Nice catch.


46 posted on 07/21/2024 6:12:37 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey

And what follows that song and at the opera’s end is peace and love.


Thank you.


47 posted on 07/21/2024 6:14:51 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Indy Pendance

And they left out a key aspect of the troll:

Turandot was set in CHINA.


48 posted on 07/21/2024 6:20:04 AM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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To: jeffc

Yes, exactly.


49 posted on 07/21/2024 6:25:10 AM PDT by navymom1 (I am voting for President Trump and you should too!)
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To: kvanbrunt2

True, but Trump says “we will win” because we are a package deal. LOL


50 posted on 07/21/2024 6:26:01 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Indy Pendance

“The Sum of All Fears” is a favorite Clancy novel of mine but I have refused to watch the film version as they needlessly and foolishly changed plot elements to make it politically correct.


51 posted on 07/21/2024 6:27:23 AM PDT by MAGA2017
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To: Indy Pendance

Turandot is pretty dark in itself. Nessun Dorma is the Chinese ice-princess (Turandot)’s command that no one in Peking sleep until the name of the Prince whom she is obliged to marry is uncovered. If she learns his name, he will be executed, rather than married. She has the Prince’s father’s female servant tortured, literally to death, but the servant will not yield. Turandot then falls in love with the Prince and they pledge each other eternal love. (It’s an opera.) It opens with the Prince of Persia, an unsuccessful suitor, being beheaded.


52 posted on 07/21/2024 6:30:33 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: Indy Pendance
Very clever!

I have heard Nessun Dorma at the Trump rallies I've attended, but the significance escaped me. I thought Trump merely liked the music. I haven't seen The Sum of All Fears; maybe that's why. Also I never bothered to translate nessun dorma and think about the meaning.

I wonder if there's a connection to its significance in Turandot.

53 posted on 07/21/2024 6:32:59 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Fight! Fight! Fight! God Bless America!--President Donald Trump, Butler, Pennsylvania, July 13, 2024)
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To: MAGA2017

I’m not a big Clancy fan, I will read this one.


54 posted on 07/21/2024 6:34:05 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Savage Beast

Someone posted that Turandot is in China. Perhaps it’s a double entendre, a warning to both lefties and China.


55 posted on 07/21/2024 6:36:56 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: El Cid

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56 posted on 07/21/2024 6:37:32 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Indy Pendance

What are the English lyrics for ‘Nessun Dorma’, sung by the young prince?

None shall sleep,
None shall sleep!
Even you, oh Princess,
In your cold room,
Watch the stars,
That tremble with love
And with hope.

But my secret is hidden within me,
My name no one shall know,
No... no...
On your mouth, I will tell it,
When the light shines.

And my kiss will dissolve
the silence that makes you mine!

(Chorus: No one will know his name
and we must, alas, die.)

Vanish, o night!
Set, stars! Set, stars!
At dawn,
I will win!
I will win!
I will win!


57 posted on 07/21/2024 6:39:54 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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To: Indy Pendance

The man is magnificent!


58 posted on 07/21/2024 6:40:07 AM PDT by Flint
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To: ClearCase_guy
RFK Jr needs to be put in charge of a broad investigation into political assassination. And the people hired to staff the effort should have no background in federal employment.



There's a place for him in the Trump administration, but the question is where. Certainly not the AG. But something, so as to stick it to the Dem deep-state.

59 posted on 07/21/2024 6:45:29 AM PDT by Negan
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To: Indy Pendance

For folks unfamiliar with the opera, a link...

https://www.metopera.org/discover/synopses/turandot/

FWIW, I think anyone thinking this is about revenge is way off.


60 posted on 07/21/2024 6:46:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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