The Spinal Tap president: Trump tells ABC his crowd goes to eleven

This goes to eleven

If you haven’t seen ABC’s horrifyngly Spinal-Tappish interview with That Man in the White House yet, you need to go watch it.

At the very least, watch the final segment (embedded in the Tweet below), or even just the final minute of the final segment, in which Trump basically tries to explain that his inauguration crowd goes to eleven. (He also calls the crowd “the sea of love.”)

This is just astounding, straight out of Spinal Tap if Spinal Tap were real and our president https://t.co/d7dyfELOP6

— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) January 26, 2017

I’m not the first, or probably even the ten-thousandth, person to make the Spinal Tap comparison. In fact, one person has helpfully combined relevant bits of the interview with audio from Spinal Tap.

Spinal Tap audio under Trump is pic.twitter.com/zXgKNMxWbd

— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) January 26, 2017

Here’s the whole thing, which manages to be scarier than any horror film I’ve seen in years.

If you need me, I’ll just be curled up in a fetal position on the floor.