Joan Baez shared a stern message about U.S. politics throughout her Wednesday evening look on the season premiere of “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.”
Before telling a narrative about Martin Luther King Jr., who she stated was a “funny person,” Baez paused the present to “set the context” for the present state of American management.
“You said I could say anything I want out here,” Baez stated to Mulaney. “We’re all here to be silly and have fun, and as long as we recognize the fact that our democracy is going up in flames…we’re being run by a bunch of really incompetent billionaires.”
While she by no means talked about them by title, Baez was almost certainly referring to President Donald Trump and Tesla founder Elon Musk, who has been slashing federally funded packages via his Department of Government Efficiency.
Later within the present, Baez stated she as soon as owned one among Musk’s Teslas after a advice from her assistant, though she doesn’t look again on the short-lived expertise fondly.
“I hated that thing,” Baez stated. “But I thought I was supposed to like it. So I drove off in it. Within 45 minutes I had smashed it into an oak tree on my property…I was thinking, ‘That’s a sign.’”
Baez was not too long ago portrayed by Monica Barbaro in James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown.” Barbaro and co-star Timothée Chalamet, who performed Bob Dylan, had been each nominated for his or her performances on the 2025 Academy Awards, though neither walked away with an Oscar.
