US President Donald Trump marked his return to the White House on Monday from hospitalisation for the coronavirus with a photo-op at the Truman Balcony a scene his critics likened to the iconic moment from the musical “Evita .”
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Now his critics on the right turned that comparison into a song parody.
The Lincoln Project a group of never-Trump Republicans released “Covita,” a parody based on the musical’s showstopper:
The Lincoln Project did not say who sang the track. Asked on Twitter, co-founder Rick Wilson responded: “I’ll never tell .”
Patti LaPone, who originated the role on Broadway and won a Tony as Eva Peron, weighed in on Trump’s balcony appearance a day earlier on social media.
“I still have the lung power and I wore less makeup,” she wrote on Twitter . “This revival is closing November 3rd.”
The “Covita” video was one of several released by The Lincoln Project on Tuesday. The group also dropped a much more somber video on the toll of the infection amid Trump’s continuing efforts to downplay it: