“I also thought it was an interesting insight for people who have been following me all these years to find out that the guy who became known as Trump’s nemesis at least on social media is the spawn of a clone of Donald Trump,” he said. “A Strange Loop” leads the 2022 Tony nominations, with a strong showing in the play category for “The Lehman Trilogy.” He was a hair-obsessed, lying, cheating, emotionally stunted, and completely self-absorbed textbook narcissist.”Įntertainment & Arts Commentary: What the 2022 Tony nominations say about the state of Broadway But the former president, Rainbow explains, is cut from the same mold as his actual father, Gerry Rainbow, a Long Island bandleader who under shady circumstances relocated the family to South Florida, where he became an entertainment agent on the condo circuit.Īs Rainbow writes about his Bronx-born dad, who died in 2017: “His mannerisms, down to the cadence of his speaking voice and even some of his facial expressions, made him almost an exact replica of you-know-who. The second piece of startling news is that Donald Trump is his father. (He assumes he’d now be Randy Rabinowitz had those ancestors sailed instead to Ellis Island.) And Regenbogen, the German surname of his great-great-grandparents, was translated to Rainbow when they immigrated to England. Randy, not Randall or Randolph, appears on his birth certificate.
The first is that Randy Rainbow is not a gay stage name.
Randy Rainbow, the social media sensation who rode to the rescue like a one-man musical theater cavalry during the dark days of Donald Trump’s presidency, drops two bombshells early on in his new memoir, “ Playing With Myself.” If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.