Beyonce and Jay Z took the stage at a concert in Cleveland in support of Hillary Clinton last Friday, and suffice to say, Donald Trump was not happy about it. At a rally in Hershey the following day, the Republican candidate ranted about the Jay Z’s language during the concert, because he is obviously one to talk. Trump told the crowd, “I was thinking, maybe I’ll just try, should I use that language? Can you imagine if I said that? He used every word in the book last night.”
Because this election cycle is, if nothing else, a snake consuming itself, Trump’s remarks about the concert were still the hot topic of conversation during a panel discussion on CNN late Sunday night. After replaying the clip from Saturday’s rally, the panelist in the red (probably very correctly) notes that Jay Z’s lyrics are not that really bothers Trump, claiming “What he’s really bothered about is Jay Z coming out onto that stage, Beyonce coming out onto that stage, and saying that their vote is with her, because they can’t be with him. They cannot support a Donald Trump presidency, and that damaged his very fragile ego.”
Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes was quick to jump in and dispute the idea, saying that as an evangelical Christian (which Trump is not, by the way) she believed that he was more bothered by “multiple uses of the ‘MF word’ that night, and the ‘N word’ that was used.” She continued, “And I think also when you look at Jay Z, one of his main videos starts off with a crowd throwing mazel tov cocktails at the police.”
Dom Lemon was quick to correct Hughes, but it was painfully too late. By Monday morning “mazel tov” was trending on Twitter for a very good reason, as people piled on to ridicule the flub.
Mazel tov cocktails are what I reward myself with after a long hard day of controlling the media. https://t.co/ib8ewCoMDx
— Rachel Dratch (@TheRealDratch) November 7, 2016
Never too early for that “Mazel Tov cocktail”
— Mia Farrow 🏳️🌈 🌻🇺🇸💙 (@MiaFarrow) November 7, 2016
Mazel Tov cocktail recipe:
One part vodka
Two parts tonic water
Dash of Manishevitz
Copious tears from parents upset at your life choices.— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 7, 2016
CNN dingbat Scottie Nell Hughes cites "Mazel Tov Cocktails"…granted, I'm no Hebrew scholar, but isn't a Mazel Tov Cocktail just champagne?
— Oliver Rockside (@oliverrockside) November 7, 2016
How many people r stocking up on Mazel Tov cocktails for Election Night? @ManischewitzCo, you're missing your Twitter moment. Bigly! 🍷
✡️— MattRX 🇮🇱🏳️🌈 (@MRodrigoX) November 7, 2016
Mazel Tov cocktails are what we'll be toasting with in temple after Hillary wins 2 parts Manischewitz 1 part tears of an anti-semite
— stu stein (@thestustein) November 7, 2016
https://twitter.com/MMonides/status/795668227170926592
https://twitter.com/jonbecker/status/795630615638999040
https://twitter.com/PopChassid/status/795652198323646464
https://twitter.com/Impybat/status/795648692875395072
While concerned, certainly, about Mazel Tov Cocktails, I'm much more worried about WMDs (Weapons of Matzoh-ball Destruction)#ScottieHughes
— Lance Gould (@lancegould) November 7, 2016
A mazel-tov cocktail is what you order at a wedding when all ur jewish relatives are like "SO WHEN ARE YOU GETTING MARRIED?!"
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) November 7, 2016
I plan on drinking lots of mazel tov cocktails tomorrow night. 🍸🍷🍹 https://t.co/MegukXQynX
— Ex-GOP Hilary 🏴☠️🌻 (@hplem) November 7, 2016
So, are we all drinking celebratory Mazel Tov cocktails tomorrow night? How do we make them? Is it like a Manischewitz spritzer?
— Suleikha Snyder (@suleikhasnyder) November 7, 2016
After this election, we’re all going to need a mazel tov cocktail.