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It left a bad taste in the mouths of those Democrats who felt the party needed a young, galvanizing face in this prominent position—which involves an equal mix of serious investigative work and flashy cable news appearances—rather than a septuagenarian in poor health.

That idea — that what we consider “bad taste” often says more about cultural perception than actual flavor — quietly runs throughout “Sweet Farm.”

The legendary king of bad taste talks about drag queens, Elon Musk’s daughter Vivian, Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations and more.

Waters didn’t want to give away his best material, so the conversation veered to include a variety of topical subjects: why President Trump will fail to make drag shows go away; how touched he was by a TikTok video made by Elon Musk’s transgender daughter, Vivian, in which she quotes lines from Waters’ 1972 black comedy, “Pink Flamingos”; and why Melania Trump’s White House Christmas decorations put the final “nail in the coffin of bad taste.”

“I was a little worried about that satire being in bad taste,” one of the co-authors, Cole Sugarman, told his classmates on Zoom.