Billy Joel just trolled Bannon, Spicer, and the Mooch in concert
Trump's ousted administration members made an appearance at Billy Joel's Madison Square Garden concert on Monday night, though they weren't technically there in person.
At one point during the show The Piano Man himself invited singer Patty Smyth onstage to perform a duet of her song "Goodbye to You."
It was during this performance that a stunning slideshow of former White House-employed men like Steve Bannon flashed on the screen above, perfectly complementing Smyth's lyrics and making for a hilarious public sendoff.
Video footage and photographs from those who attended the concert show the montage included photographs of Bannon, Sean Spicer, Anthony Scaramucci, Reince Priebus, and even former FBI Director James Comey, among others.
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The upbeat song featured strobe lights and the audience could be heard wildly cheering in memory of Trump’s recently fallen cabinet members.
However, as the night went on Joel made another, far more serious political statement during the show.
The singer emerged to perform his encore wearing a yellow Star of David pinned to the front and back of his suit.
In response to the mark of condemnation against white supremacists Joel's ex-wife, Christie Brinkley, shared a picture of him wearing the star on Instagram, explaining, "And on the day of the solar cclipse a yellow star appeared on the jacket of another kind of star with a clinched fist that seemed to be gripping painful, no excruciating, memories of loved ones who wore that star to their death.”
Back in June, Joel told Rolling Stone that he tries to keep his political views to himself. "I am a private citizen and I have a right to believe in my own political point of view, but I try not to get up on a soapbox and tell people how to think," he said.
However, Joel's latest public sign of resistance shows that the "Unite the Right" neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, along with President Trump’s ignorant comments condemning violence on "both sides" may have been enough to change his mind.
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