Posted on 09/14/2020 3:23:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Axl Rose may be a frequent critic of Donald Trump, but that hasn't stopped the president from being a huge fan of Guns N' Roses' "November Rain" video. He reportedly even made staffers watch it in the Oval Office.
This nugget of information was discovered by White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs, who found it in former press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders' recently published book, Speaking for Myself: Faith, Freedom and the Fight of Our Lives Inside the Trump White House.
After parts of the band's 1991 epic were heard at Trump's Michigan rally last week, Jacobs tweeted a photo of the appropriate page.
In her book, Sanders writes that, in early 2018, she and former White House communications director Hope Hicks had met with Trump: "The president told Hope and me in the Oval he wanted the classic Guns N' Roses song 'November Rain' added to his rally playlist. He told us it was the 'greatest music video of all time,' and made us watch it to prove his point, even though neither of us had disagreed."
As protests took place across the country after the killing of George Floyd in June, Rose accused Trump of trying to "foment hatred [and] anarchy," and called him a "truly bad, repulsive excuse [for] a person [with] a sick agenda."
It was one of the most visceral attacks by Rose, who has also criticized Trump's response to the 2018 California wildfires and said that the White House was "the current U.S. gold standard of what can be considered disgraceful."
The singer has also expressed his displeasure with Vice President Mike Pence, First Lady Melania Trump, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions III over the past few years.
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I just wish we could slash spending.
Yesterday it was the well known genius from Twisted Sister and today it is the deeply intellectual guy from Guns N Roses.
These guys sure are smart.
Well I never.
Why can't these old rockers just shut up and sing? Nobody wants a political lecture from some guy who has probably been on hard drugs all his life and is high on drugs 90% of the time..
See? Orange Man IS bad, for forcing his staff to watch a music video which he says is the greatest music video of all time. This was fact checked by CNN and Politico and they concluded that it was one of over 150,000 lies or misleading statements. This means Orange Man is a LIAR and doesn’t deserve to be in the highest office in the land because he is only in it for himself and doesn’t care about anyone else, especially people who don’t like his taste in music videos.
I would like it if I didn’t have to say sarcasm off, but that is the world we live in. So, sarcasm OFF.
One in a Million...leftnuts would have a fit over that one.
Just watched it.
Don’t like it, melodramatic crap, poor taste in every aspect, think it sucks.
I hate GNR
WOW! Hard to disagree with POTUS. What a fabulous video (1st time ever hearing that song or seeing that video).
Axyl Rose bites the bag.
Purple Rain was kind of cool. Never heard of November Rain.
More washed up musicians who are trying to get back their 15 minutes of fame by jumping on the liberal bandwagon.
I’ve always liked the song-I hear it a lot on the classic rock station-the video is okay-slick, well produced-but I like music videos that are fun and without drama-my favorite Guns N Roses tune is “I Used to Love Her”...
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