{"id":95039,"date":"2026-05-04T02:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95039"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:21:18","slug":"bette-takes-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/05\/04\/bette-takes-on-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Bette Takes On Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question this week was simple.&nbsp; <strong>Robert <\/strong>in Atlanta writes, \u201c<em>I saw a video of <strong>Bette Midler <\/strong>singing a protest song against Trump.&nbsp; What do you know about it?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a protest song specifically against Trump.&nbsp; \u201cAll You Fascists Bound to Lose\u201d was written by <strong>Woody Guthrie <\/strong>back in 1942 (he didn\u2019t record it until 1944).&nbsp; While not named, it was aimed at people like <strong>Hitler <\/strong>and <strong>Mussolini <\/strong>and was supporting unions against fascist rule.&nbsp; Midler was familiar with the song and thought it apropos.&nbsp; \u201cYou know I\u2019ve been around a long time, but I have never lived through what we are living through now.&nbsp; The great Woody Guthrie wrote this song many years ago.&nbsp; I changed some of the words to fit our times, and I hope you\u2019ll sing it when you are marching.\u201d&nbsp; The video accompanying the release features Bette alongside her <strong><em>Beaches<\/em><\/strong> co-star, <strong>Barbara Hershey<\/strong>, with cameos from numerous people including her <strong><em>Hello, Dolly!<\/em><\/strong> co-star, <strong>David Hyde Pierce <\/strong>and one of her former <strong><em>Harlettes<\/em><\/strong>, <strong>Jenifer Lewis<\/strong>.&nbsp; You can check it out on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>When Bette is taking on Trump, it\u2019s definitely time to end yet another column.&nbsp; I just got back from a quick trip to LA. &nbsp;I\u2019ll tell you all about that next week on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 the site that always delivers.&nbsp; In the meantime, feel free to send your questions along to <strong><a href=\"mailto:Billy@BillyMasters.com\">Billy@BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong> and I promise to get back to you before DeSantis bans this column!&nbsp; So, until next time, remember, one man\u2019s filth is another man\u2019s bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Ask Billy question this week was simple.&nbsp; Robert in Atlanta writes, \u201cI saw a video of Bette Midler singing a protest song against Trump.&nbsp; What do you know about it?\u201d It\u2019s not a protest song specifically against Trump.&nbsp; \u201cAll You Fascists Bound to Lose\u201d was written by Woody Guthrie back in 1942 (he didn\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95040,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95039\/revisions\/95040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}