Was Someone Trolling Trump by Playing Creedence's Draft-Dodger-Slamming 'Fortunate Son' at His Military Parade?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Or Is It Just the Further Death of Irony?

Was the music for Saturday’s military parade in Washington, D.C. covertly programmed by the “No Kings” movement?

That’s the question some were asking on social media after the event, spearheaded by President Donald J. Trump, which featured the repeated playing of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s classic “Fortunate Son” — a song that virtually the entire world knows by now was written during the Vietnam era as a slam against wealthy draft dodgers. The assumption being made by at least a few tweeters was that this had to be some kind of deliberate trolling of the president by someone on the music selection team who just has it in for him. Because if you were going to make a top 10 list of songs that Trump should not want to have played at any of his events — but most of all not at a military-themed ceremony — “Fortunate Son” would certainly be No. 1.

In 2020, in fact, no less a figure than the song’s author, John Fogerty (a military veteran), directly made the connection between Trump and the rich kids who got out of the draft that he was writing about back in the day. “It seems like he is probably the Fortunate Son,” Fogerty said at the time. There could hardly be a worse insult.

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. (He said in 2016 that the condition made it difficult for him to walk at the time he submitted his doctor’s note, but “over a period of time, it healed up.”)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/someone-trolling-trump-playing-creedence-200000456.html

Krasnov might be too vain to get the meaning of the song.

[Deuxcents]

1. He might be too vain but he's certainly breathtakingly stupid

[surfered]

2. That was three generations ago, the person in charge was probably ignorant of the song's meaning

I’d like to think there’s someone trolling him, but I expect everyone involved has drunk the Kool Aid

[50 Shades Of Blue]

3. Reminds me of Reagan totally not getting "Born in the U.S.A."

[Metaphorical]

4. I Suspect Carly Simon's You're So Vain

probably is on Trump's No Go list as well.

I've noticed that MAGAs really do not do irony well.

[pat_k]

5. Great show: 2004 Springsteen, Fogerty, Browne

I can't imagine anyone selecting this song wouldn't be well aware of the meaning.

Sure, maybe the radical reactionaries who are now on 47's payroll are so incompetent that they failed to do even the simplest of checks, but I doubt it.

I think it was intentional by some sane people involved in the planning -- sane people who have yet to be targeted for purging. (And I firmly belief there are far more sane people, than the insane radical reactionaries they dream of populating the executive branch with). The decimation of the executive branch to date is horrific, but I firmly believe there is a meaningful resistance in the civil service standing for our shared values.






From the tour: Springsteen and Fogerty, Fortunate Son:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8qg47