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Conspirituality

Brief: The Theatre of Trump (w/Hank Willenbrink)

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It’s all just a show, and sometimes that makes it all the more real. Playwright and theater scholar Hank Willenbrink joins Matthew to look at the spectacle of Trump through the lens of performance studies. From his childhood listening to Norman Vincent Peale, to his lifelong fascination with Broadway, to his TV celebrity, to the tableau vivants of evangelicals gathered round him to sanctify his holy mission, Trump hits his marks so well he doesn’t even need to remember his lines. Now he has a new role to play: the framed felon. Show Notes Performing for the Don: Theaters of Faith in the Trump Era About Me – Hank Willenbrink Bread and Puppet Theater — Glover, VT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello everyone.

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Welcome to Conspir spirituality where we investigate the intersection of conspiracy theories

1:09.5

and spiritual influence to uncover cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism.

1:14.6

And today I can add to that tagline how sometimes it's all just a show, but that makes it all the more real.

1:24.0

I'm Matthew Remsky, and this is a brief called

1:27.0

The Theater of Trump with Hank Willenbrink.

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We are on Instagram and Threads at Conspiruality Pod and you can access all of our

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episodes ad free, plus our Monday bonus episodes on Patreon or just our bonus episodes via Apple subscriptions. on recorded this discussion with playwright and drama professor Hank

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willenbrink over a month ago but it got bumped around in scheduling for a

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number of reasons but the themes we cover here are both evergreen and timely because they get right into the

2:05.8

core dynamics of Trump's past and potential future presidency as an audience

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