--- title: Emin Agalarov Has a Music Video About Trump Tower Meeting description: Many Americans first learned about Russian pop singer Emin Agalarov from his role in setting up the infamous Trump Tower meeting involving a Kremlin-connected lawyer... canonical: https://time.com/5322907/the-russian-pop-star-who-played-a-role-in-the-trump-tower-meeting-has-a-music-video-about-it/ author: Abby Vesoulis article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-26T21:35:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T20:41:32.254Z article:section: Politics og:title: Pop Star Who Played a Role in the Trump Tower Meeting Has a Music Video About It og:description: It features impersonators of Trump, Kim Jong Un and Stormy Daniels. og:url: https://time.com/5322907/the-russian-pop-star-who-played-a-role-in-the-trump-tower-meeting-has-a-music-video-about-it/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78dab65da30370bc/6988f8c3929fadd90dbef47b/gettyimages-832178958.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 7200 og:image:height: 4050 og:image:alt: President Trump To Return To Trump Tower In New York City For First Time Since Taking Office og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Pop Star Who Played a Role in the Trump Tower Meeting Has a Music Video About It twitter:description: It features impersonators of Trump, Kim Jong Un and Stormy Daniels. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78dab65da30370bc/6988f8c3929fadd90dbef47b/gettyimages-832178958.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Russian Pop Star Who Played a Role in the Trump Tower Meeting Has a Music Video About It > Sponsored content. 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Robert Nickelsberg—Getty Images  by [Abby Vesoulis](https://time.com/author/abby-vesoulis/)  ## Abby Vesoulis Jun 26, 2018 9:35 PM UTC Many Americans first learned about Russian pop singer Emin Agalarov from his role in setting up the infamous [Trump Tower meeting](http://time.com/4851179/donald-trump-jr-russia-meeting-tweet/) involving a Kremlin-connected lawyer and top members of the Trump campaign. Now he has a [music video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cs4tKdiiI4&feature=youtu.be) about it. The English-language video features Agalarov singing and dancing alongside actors portraying Donald Trump, his daughter Ivanka, Hillary Clinton, porn star Stormy Daniels, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The various characters in the video can be seen handing mysterious envelopes and possibly stacks of cash to each other. In one particularly suggestive scene in the video for “You Got Me Good,” Agalarov and Trump party with a group of Russian beauty pageant contestants on a hotel bed. “You got me so good, you really got me so good,” Agalarov sings. The Agalarovs’ relationship with the president goes back to at least 2013, when Emin and his wealthy father, Aras, worked with the Trumps to prepare for the Miss Universe Pageant in Russia. That year, Trump also made a cameo in [another one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZUNjFsgS8) of Agalarov’s music videos alongside actual 2013 Miss Universe contestants. Agalarov’s publicist, Rob Goldstone, was the person who contacted Donald Trump Jr. informing him that he could arrange a meeting in which Russian sources could give the family intel that would “incriminate” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to which, Trump Jr. [replied,](http://time.com/4856233/donald-trump-jr-emails/) “If it’s what you say I love it.” Donald Trump Jr. has since [testified](https://www.vox.com/2018/2/26/16964328/trump-tower-meeting-mueller-russia) that the meeting was fruitless. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5322907/the-russian-pop-star-who-played-a-role-in-the-trump-tower-meeting-has-a-music-video-about-it/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5322907/the-russian-pop-star-who-played-a-role-in-the-trump-tower-meeting-has-a-music-video-about-it/"},"headline":"The Russian Pop Star Who Played a Role in the Trump Tower Meeting Has a Music Video About It","datePublished":"2018-06-26T21:35:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T20:41:32.254Z","description":"Many Americans first learned about Russian pop singer Emin Agalarov from his role in setting up the infamous Trump Tower meeting involving a Kremlin-connected lawyer...","url":"https://time.com/5322907/the-russian-pop-star-who-played-a-role-in-the-trump-tower-meeting-has-a-music-video-about-it/","keywords":["Donald Trump","russia","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78dab65da30370bc/6988f8c3929fadd90dbef47b/gettyimages-832178958.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Abby Vesoulis","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/abby-vesoulis/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78dab65da30370bc/6988f8c3929fadd90dbef47b/gettyimages-832178958.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump To Return To Trump Tower In New York City For First Time Since Taking Office","caption":"President Trump To Return To Trump Tower In New York City For First Time Since Taking Office","creditText":"Robert Nickelsberg—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5322907/the-russian-pop-star-who-played-a-role-in-the-trump-tower-meeting-has-a-music-video-about-it/","name":"The Russian Pop Star Who Played a Role in the Trump Tower Meeting Has a Music Video About It"}}]}] ```