Column | From 'Dixie' to Shrek, Trump's campaign dance party had it all

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Trump prides himself (we hear from reporting) on cobbling together playlists for the customers at his private clubs.
55% : But then came Rufus Wainwright's beautiful, melancholic "Hallelujah" -- made famous by its incongruous appearance in the animated film "Shrek" -- and then Sinéad O'Connor's similarly heartfelt "Nothing Compares 2 U." (Trump is perhaps hoping his Catholic supporters forget the controversy that once swirled around her.)
53% : Trump had at one point even wondered into the microphone why no one was leaving, as though his understanding of "musical fests" was that people left as the music was playing.
51% : When the first such interruption occurred, the audience began singing "God Bless America" for some reason, prompting Trump to ask his audiovisual people to play "Ave Maria" over the loudspeaker.
49% : Take out Wainwright and Oliver's tracks, and they came out when Trump was about 34, which sounds about right.
43% : On average, they came out when Trump was about 40.
43% : What were they going to do, not vote for him?What his campaign team realized, even if he didn't, was that the point of the event was also the people not in the room, some of whom might have wanted to know more about Trump than what his musical influences were.
36% : But Trump didn't.
24% : Regardless, Trump didn't like her instrumental version, complaining that "they gave me the 'Ave Maria' with no voice.
22% : The Washington Post's Jabin Botsford captured an image of the teleprompter urging Trump to get back to taking questions.

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