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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?
The use of Creedence's draft-dodger-mocking 'Fortunate Son' while soldiers marched past Trump at his military parade struck some as possible trolling.
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. 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. If that’s too high a level of intrigue to be true, we can probably just assume that this points to everyone involved with this bone-spurred — sorry, bone-headed — move falling into a category of artistic appreciation best summed up by the late Leonard Cohen: You don’t really care for music, do ya?
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