16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Is Betty Buckley Still Alive?' Trump Asked. She Certainly Is.
An hour into Betty Buckley's first set at Joe's Pub, she began the aching ballad from 'Cats' that has won her legions of fans. Among them, she now knows, is President Trump.
Ms. Buckley, 77, who regularly reposts social media content critical of the Trump Administration, did not mention the president when she tore into 'Memory,' which brought the reverent Thursday evening crowd to its feet, whistling and whooping. She didn't mention him when she finished the number, either.
But then she pivoted to Paul Simon's 'American Tune' — with lyrics like 'I don't have a friend who feels at ease' and 'I wonder what's gone wrong' — and called it 'particularly perfect for what's happening these days, which is weird, and not cool.'
