Was Someone Trolling Trump by Playing Creedence’s Draft-Dodger-Slamming ‘Fortunate Son’ at His Military Parade? Or Is It Just the Further Death of Irony?

So it’s tantalizing to entertain the thought that someone from the left infiltrated the ranks of the president’s music department to include the Creedence song as part of a parade in which active-duty members of the armed forces marched past the figure who has sometimes been chided as “President Bone Spurs,” in honor of the medical deferment that got Trump out of the draft. Either Trump’s music people stuck their fingers in their ears as people pointed out that use of the Creedence song just created fresh opportunities for the world to be reminded that he was able to avoid military service… or else they have just soldiered on with it — so to speak — in a “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” sort of way, imagining that they could bring everyone around to thinking that the song will just have positive connotations from here on out. Fogerty continued, “The very first lines of ‘Fortunate Son’ are: ‘Some folks are born made to wave the flag, oooh, they’re red white and blue / But when the band plays “Hail to the Chief,” they point the cannon at you.’ Well, that’s exactly what happened recently in Lafayette Park when the president decided to take a walk across the park.

Author: Chris Willman

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