Quick Take - Something Wonderful

by Dr. Ellen Brandt


For some time, I've been thinking about what might make a quickly viral, super-terrific and super-positive Trump Campaign Video that Team Trump could post on YouTube and other streaming sites throughout the world - not just the U.S. - Internet.


It's funny; it's relevant; it's sophisticated; and it's that old-fashioned word, charming.


I would put it together myself, but I am not an animator. Those who do put it together should be JibJab-style and JibJab-caliber animators. One would think there might be a few of those somehow attached to the Trump campaign team.


If you like this idea, with just two weeks until the Election, please get it to friends at the core of the campaign as soon as you can. Several core campaign people are part of my LinkedIn network, so maybe one or more of them will also see this and utilize it quickly.


Here goes:


I propose an animated video using the absolutely perfect-for-Donald-Trump-and-entourage lyrics of the song Something Wonderful from The King and I, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic musical, which first appeared on Broadway in 1951 and was later made into a superb 1956 film from 20th Century-Fox.


The first line will be "sung" - or more likely, dubbed over - by an animated figure with the face of Melania Trump, adding more and more people in the Trump entourage on each subsequent line of the song.


Here are suggestions with whom to add when as the song progresses. I think you'll see why I'm so keen on this idea - and why I believe it would go mega-viral very fast.


(Melania Trump)

This is a man who thinks with his heart, his heart is not always wise


(Add Trump children)

This is a man who stumbles and falls, but this is a man who tries


(Add Trump children's spouses and Trump grandchildren, plus Mike Pence and family)

This is a man you'll forgive and forgive and help and protect, as long as you live


(Add Kellyanne Conway and a few more key campaign aides) 

He will not always say, what you would have him say


(Add several more well-known Trump spokespeople, like Lynne Patton and Scottie Hughes)

But now and then he'll say, something wonderful


(Add half-dozen political bigwigs who often speak for campaign, like Newt Gingrich, Rudy Guiliani, and Jeff Sessions)

The thoughtless things he'll do, will hurt and worry you


(Add several former primary opponents now supporting, like Mike Huckabee and Ben Carson)

Then all at once he'll do, something wonderful


(Add Reince Priebus and key Congressional members supporting Trump, as many as you wish)

 He has a thousand dreams that won't come true


(Add TV and talk radio personalities supporting, like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh)

 
You know that he believes in them, and that's enough for you


(Add Hollywood and Nashville stars and other Celebs supporting Trump, like . . . . whomever you choose)

 
And so you'll go along, defend him when he's wrong


(Add some humor, by putting in some on-the-side-of-the-angels historical figures - Mahatma Gandhi? Mother Teresa? Nelson Mandela? Albert Einstein?

 
And tell him, when he's strong, he is wonderful


(Add in, over last two lines of song, 100 or 200 or 500 typical supporters, all ethnic groups, ages, hairstyles, wearing Trump hats and T-shirts)

 
He'll always need your love, and so he'll get your love


The man who needs your love can be wonderful (crescendo!)



Seriously, isn't that perfect for this campaign? Well, I think so.


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