By james art Former president and 34-time convicted felon, Donald Trump’s favorite tenor Christopher Macchio appeared at the Madison Square Garden rally on October 27, 2024.
The tenor, whose recent performance schedule has been tied to the Trump campaign, did not perform an opera for the occasion. Instead, he performed Frank Sinatra’s classic “New York, New York” after Trump’s hour-long “weave.”
Macchio has been part of Trump’s campaign this past year, performing Puccini’s aria “Nessun Dorma” at the RNC and “Ave Maria” at a rally in Pennsylvania on October 7, 2024. He also appeared at CPAC.
Macchio has been dubbed “America’s Tenor” by the Trump campaign and is known for a White House concert in 2020, performing Puccini’s “Nessun dorma” as well as “Ave Maria.” The tenor also appeared in the film Cabrini, which also starred the internationally renowned Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon.
The Madison Square rally was a night that featured hateful rhetoric, with comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a “garbage island” and saying Latinos “like to make babies” and “go inside like they did in our country.” Additionally, Rudy Giuliani says, “Palestinians are taught to kill us at two years old.” Finally, former senior Trump aide Stephen Miller echoed Joseph Goebbels’ infamous “Germany is for the Germans—foreigners out,” declaring that “America is for Americans and only Americans’.