{"id":44719,"date":"2017-04-20T21:06:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T01:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=44719"},"modified":"2018-11-08T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:45:08","slug":"coffee-break-donald-trump-says-pavarotti-is-a-good-friend-of-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/04\/20\/coffee-break-donald-trump-says-pavarotti-is-a-good-friend-of-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE BREAK | Donald Trump Humiliates Himself By Saying He&#8217;s &#8220;Good Friends&#8221; With Pavarotti"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44722\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44722\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/trump-Pavarotti.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. President Donald Trump makes a fool of himself at a press conference by mispronouncing Verdi and lying about being &quot;good friends&quot; with Pavarotti.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/trump-Pavarotti.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/trump-Pavarotti-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/trump-Pavarotti-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump makes a fool of himself at a press conference by mispronouncing Verdi and lying about being &#8220;good friends&#8221; with Pavarotti.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Donald Trump was at the White House today for a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough the ages, your country has been a beacon of artistic and scientific achievement,\u201d Trump said with the help of a teleprompter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Venice to Florence, from Verdi to Pavarotti \u2014 friend of mine. Great friend of mine&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pavarotti has been dead for 10 years. And his pronunciation of &#8220;Verdi&#8221; is&#8230; well&#8230;\u00a0just watch the video:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump gives a shout out to Pavarotti, calls him &#8220;a good friend of mine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Pavarotti died 10 years ago in 2007. \u2014via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\">@MSNBC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MHMT065mh3\">pic.twitter.com\/MHMT065mh3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylegriffin1\/status\/855151308289998851\">April 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Read the full story behind Trump and Pavarotti&#8217;s friendship, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2017\/04\/21\/the-full-story-behind-trump-and-pavarottis-friendship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/a>.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump makes a fool of himself at a press conference by mispronouncing Verdi and lying about being &#8220;good friends&#8221; with Pavarotti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6439,4932,66],"tags":[5838,5939],"yst_prominent_words":[11936,24254,12158,24252,24245,24238,14036,24251,24250,19201,24253,24239,16004],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/04\/trump-Pavarotti.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-bDh","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44719"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56834,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44719\/revisions\/56834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44719"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=44719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}