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Cringe Alert: Maduro Sings John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ Calling for Peace with U.S.
Breitbart ^ | 11/17/2025 | CHRISTIAN K. CARUZO

Posted on 11/17/2025 9:33:16 AM PST by SmokingJoe

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro on Sunday sang John Lennon’s Imagine to send a new “peace” message to U.S. President Donald Trump amid rising tensions between both countries.

Maduro delivered his cringe-worthy performance during an event of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in the Venezuelan state of Miranda — a mandatory broadcast by the regime’s media apparatus.

“Second task. Peace Peace Peace, do everything for peace. As John Lennon used to say, right?” Maduro said, before asking his Communications Minister Freddy Alfred Nazareth Ñáñez, “how did the John Lennon so go?”

The Venezuelan dictator, in what appeared to be another attempt at speaking the English language, began singing “Imagine” before the original track played through the stage’s sound system.

“Look, they’re pranksters,” Maduro exclaimed, pointing at the stage crew.

Footage from the event’s broadcast shared by international outlets show Maduro and his followers waving hands and making peace signs as the song played, with the dictator exclaiming, “Long live peace!”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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KEYWORDS: chat; imagine; johnlennon; maduro; venezuela

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Didn't know he even knew that song.
1 posted on 11/17/2025 9:33:16 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Only a fool would say that.


2 posted on 11/17/2025 9:33:34 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

Everyone knows the song?


3 posted on 11/17/2025 9:35:23 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Was he doing fentanyl at the time?


4 posted on 11/17/2025 9:35:47 AM PST by stanne
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To: SmokingJoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvz0TOm0zgI

The song was a putdown of “Imagine”


5 posted on 11/17/2025 9:37:17 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: stanne

John sure ‘imagined’ no taxes, that’s why he moved to the US from Britain.


6 posted on 11/17/2025 9:37:42 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: stanne

Probably.


7 posted on 11/17/2025 9:39:09 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

Last desperate days of a Narco commie dictator.


8 posted on 11/17/2025 9:40:33 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: stanne

I see what you did there.... Steely Dan


9 posted on 11/17/2025 9:42:20 AM PST by MoreMAGA ("See, there's three kinds of people...")
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To: SmokingJoe

Some American Libs told Maduro that this song carries a
‘special message’ to Americans. Ahh, actually, it doesn’t really. Musically, it’s a good song and the lyrics are fairly thoughtful, but I have never held the song in reverence, as many agnostics seem to do, whenever they want to appear as ‘ smart, wise and spiritual’.

**Another ‘Go To’ song for those non religious is “Hallelujah”
by Leonard Cohen. That is the song SNL cast member Kate McKinnon sang as the Cold Open on the saturday after Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016.
More faux-spirituality a-la-mode for the unchurched masses.


10 posted on 11/17/2025 9:43:00 AM PST by lee martell
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To: dfwgator

Lennon was also a big fan of Ronald Reagan when he was elected the first time...


11 posted on 11/17/2025 9:43:32 AM PST by God luvs America
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To: lee martell

Some American Libs told Maduro that this song carries a
‘special message’ to Americans. Ahh, actually, it doesn’t really. Musically, it’s a good song and the lyrics are fairly thoughtful, but I have never held the song in reverence, as many agnostics seem to do, whenever they want to appear as ‘ smart, wise and spiritual’.


Kind of like how some thought “One Toke Over The Line” was a ‘modern spiritual’.


12 posted on 11/17/2025 9:43:57 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: God luvs America

Lennon was also a big fan of Ronald Reagan when he was elected the first time...


He met Reagan during a Monday Night Football game, when Lennon was interviewed by Howard Cosell at halftime. It was the first time he watched an American football game, and he met Reagan. Reagan put his arm around John and explained some of the rules of the game to him.


13 posted on 11/17/2025 9:45:17 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Good one, dfwgator. Joe— here is the reference. Lennon’s idiotic tune imagine—the lyrics are pure Marxist throughout.
Plastic banana Marxism.

So the bus driver Maduro/Commie sings this? It should be noted that Garth Brooks and his idiot wyf sang this in a Nashville presser— thereby cementing is demonrat multimillionaire trust fund heir to oil money who thinks he’s a country star. Whatever.

Here is the song dfwgator quoted— from Steely Dan (written to ridicule the idiocy of John Lennon, and they made it plain to all that it was directed at Lennon).

“Only a Fool Would Say That”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvz0TOm0zgI


14 posted on 11/17/2025 9:46:03 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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🎼Venezuela...tumbles into the sea....


15 posted on 11/17/2025 9:46:36 AM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: SmokingJoe; lightman

“Imagine” is perhaps the most evil song ever written!


16 posted on 11/17/2025 9:46:51 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: John S Mosby

And Becker and Fagen were as liberal as they come, but even they saw through it.


17 posted on 11/17/2025 9:48:02 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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No surprise, John Lenin said it was basically the communist manifesto put to music.


18 posted on 11/17/2025 9:49:39 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: SmokingJoe

Ok. He’s got a plan but well, where’s the white Stetson hat?


19 posted on 11/17/2025 9:49:59 AM PST by Beowulf9
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Imagine there’s no liberals....


20 posted on 11/17/2025 9:50:42 AM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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