Joan Baez Tells John Mulaney America Is ‘Being Run By a Bunch of Really Incompetent Billionaires’
“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,” singer says on debut episode of Everybody’s Live
Joan Baez was among the guests on the premiere episode of John Mulaney’s Everybody’s Live show on Netflix, where the legendary singer-songwriter took aim at the current Trump administration.
Noting how the talk show was live and uncensored, Baez told Mulaney, “You said I could say anything I want out here.” She then took advantage of the opportunity, adding, “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.”
Baez didn’t mention Donald Trump and Elon Musk by name, but later in the episode appeared to counteract the president and DOGE runner’s White House car commercial by sharing her own brief and unfortunate experience owning a Tesla.
“I hated that thing,” Baez said of her electric car (via Variety). “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.’”
In addition to Baez, Wednesday’s debut episode of Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney also featured guests Michael Keaton, Fred Armisen, and personal finance columnist Jessica Roy, plus appearances by Tracy Morgan and Christopher Lloyd and a music performance by Cypress Hill alongside an orchestra.
Everybody’s Live is an extension of Mulaney’s six-episode Everybody’s in L.A., which aired on Netflix last year. “I’m very committed to diving into irrelevance, never being relevant,” Mulaney told Rolling Stone of the shows. “This ties into a few things: recklessness, overplanning, and taking calls. A lot of stuff we did in the first six, we’ll continue.”
