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Hear Donald Trump's "Sad!" Tweets Reimagined as the Greatest Emo Song Ever

The year of nu-emo continues.
Lauren O'Neill
London, GB

One way of coping with adversity is to regress; to re-embrace the halcyon days of the past, and to retreat into old habits and interests. Which is probably why 2017 is already fast becoming the year of nu-emo, with nostalgic reunions, tours and festivals popping up all over the place to celebrate crying in eyeliner, and also to help us forget that the present is a gaping cesspit.  But until now, nobody has acknowledged the most dedicated emo of them all: President Donald J Trump. Think about it – his concerns about having the most friends that are reminiscent of the MySpace struggle; his fake hair that sometimes, sometimes sweeps across his face in manner of the bangs you had at 14? E-m-o. And then there are the tweets, which read like a particularly raw LiveJournal account. To this end, the good people at Super Deluxe have reimagined his Twitter entries as the greatest emo song of all time, complete with twinkly guitars, scream vocals and a breakdown. This is God's work:

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