- A British filmmaker recounted how Donald Trump timed the launch of Air Force One to coincide with the crescendo of Nessun Dorma.
- Alex Holder said Trump used the “machinery of the presidency to project that image to his fans.”
- “It’s almost like Kim Jong-un,” he said.
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The aria “Nessun Dorma,” played by Donald Trump at campaign events in 2016, was also used for Air Force One’s launch music, said the British filmmaker, who succeeded Trump at the end of his presidency.
“There’s only one hilarious story where he actually times the launch of Air Force One to coincide with the crescendo of ‘Nessun Dorma,’ which is just absolutely outrageous and hilarious,” said Alex Holder, the Trump for interviewed his documentary series Unprecedented.”
Holder was on Air Force One for an interview that was ultimately canceled, he said on The Bulwark Podcast in an episode released Tuesday.
But he said he and his crew saw Trump “use the machinery and apparatus of the presidency to convey that image to his fans, which is quite remarkable.”
“It’s almost like Kim Jong-un,” he said.
Video from the 2016 campaign shows Trump’s plane flying by with the same song.
— James Cook (@BBCJamesCook) July 20, 2016
During his election campaign, Luciano Pavarotti’s widow called on Trump to stop playing the signature aria from Puccini’s opera “Turandot” at campaign events.
“We remind you that the values of fraternity and solidarity that Luciano Pavarotti has upheld throughout his artistic career are incompatible with the world vision of candidate Donald Trump,” Nicoletta Mantovani wrote at the time.