Max Tani

Donald Trump's taste in culture and entertainment really is all over the place with a few uniting themes, I would say.

Trump loves classic action, macho kind of content.

You see this with the people who are on his Hollywood council, Sylvester Stallone.

Hi, my name is Rocky Balboa, the Italian style.

Jon Voight.

Do not tell me it can't be done.

Mel Gibson.

He's definitely proven that he is interested in this kind of testosterone-fueled version of the world.

Now, that doesn't keep him from blasting Cats.

And The Phantom of the Opera.

At campaign events and at the White House.

But he's a classic fan of both Broadway and macho movies and movie stars from the 80s and 90s.

I think a lot of people close to Trump and a lot of people who supported him believed that 2024 and his reelection was a vindication of their worldview.

And they saw this in the strength of the growth of independent podcasters and the kind of manosphere figures like Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn and their willingness to openly support Trump and kind of chop it up.

I could definitely tell you.

They saw this as a as a vindication that this was really the mainstream culture and that, you know, kind of this anti-Trump.

cultural backlash that had kind of emanated from the traditional gatekeepers in Hollywood and these other places just had lost some currency with a lot of mainstream Americans.

They pointed at the popularity of country music.

There's been these big debates over whether people like Morgan Wallen

You know, is he kind of a Trump supporter?