Actress and singer Bette Midler has unveiled a full music video recasting Woody Guthries protest anthem All You Fascists Bound to Lose into a coarse, explicitly anti-Trump screed aimed at the President, his administration, and his supporters.
The video, now circulating widely, stitches together performance footage with scenes from the anti-Trump No Kings rallies held that same month. According to Gateway Pundit, the production leans heavily on imagery attacking the administrations immigration policies and border enforcement, a favorite target of the Hollywood left.
Midler is joined on screen by her longtime friend and *Beaches* co-star Barbara Hershey, along with Broadway performers Shoshana Bean, David Hyde Pierce, Jenifer Lewis, and others from the entertainment elite. The project underscores how aggressively the cultural establishment continues to mobilize against the President and those who support stricter immigration enforcement and national sovereignty.
In the videos introduction, Midler proclaims, You know Ive been around a long time, but Ive never lived through what we are living through now. The great Woody Guthrie wrote this song many years ago. I changed some of the words to fit our times, and I hope youll sing it when you are making signs, planning protests, and marching. Because sometimes people, sometimes you just gotta SING OUT! Her framing casts the President and his administration as an existential threat, while presenting left-wing protest as a kind of moral crusade.
The revised lyrics are openly hostile, with Midler singing, Hey there, all you fascists, let me put you straight. When you come for the rest of us, well fight you at the gate Well battle ICE together, until they cut and run, just like in Minneapolis. And when the midterms come youre bound to lose. She continues, To hell with all the cowards who hide behind their masks. Were gonna win the midterms. Were coming for his ass! He knows it too, that bastards bound to lose.
Another verse charges, Trying to distract us from the Epstein files. You gas and beat and murder us, protecting pedophiles. Lets turn the screws. You pervs are bound to lose. She closes with an overt political call to arms: America, get ready, midterms are at hand. We got to stick together, folks, and vote to save this land. Its time to choose, those fascists bound to lose.
The rallies showcased in the video were aimed squarely at dismantling Trump-era immigration enforcement, including the work of ICE agents on the front lines. Cole Allen, the man who attempted to assassinate Trump administration officials at the White House Correspondents Dinner, reportedly attended at least one of these protests, highlighting the darker edge of this kind of incendiary rhetoric.
This latest production is only the newest entry in Midlers long-running fixation on the President, a pattern that has increasingly veered into unhinged territory. In 2024, she even shared a meme suggesting she would drink Drano if Trump won the election, then quietly deleted her X account soon afteran episode that raises more questions about Hollywoods escalating rage than about the voters they so openly disdain.
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