Posted on 09/15/2018 8:15:16 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Paul McCartney slams Trump in new song: 'We've got a mad captain sailing this boat'
By Aris Folley - 09/15/18 10:48 PM EDT
Paul McCartney revealed in a recent interview that he took aim at President Trump in his new solo album, dubbing him the "mad captain" in one of his songs.
During an interview with BBC published Thursday, the former Beatles bandmate said he took swipes at several climate-change deniers, including Trump, in a track, titled “Despite Repeated Warnings,” on his new album, “Egypt Station,” which was released earlier this month.
The track includes verses like “despite repeated warnings of dangers up ahead, the captain won’t be listening to what’s been said” and “those who shout the loudest, may not always be the smartest.”
McCartney told the BBC that he made the track to “basically say, 'occasionally, we’ve got a mad captain sailing this boat we’re all on and he is just going to take us to the iceberg [despite] being warned it's not a cool idea.'”
When pressed during the interview about who it was he had in mind when he thought of the words “mad captain,” McCartney answered, “Well I mean, obviously it’s Trump."
"But I don’t get too involved because there’s plenty of them about,” he said added, while noting that Trump is “not the only one” either.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
We live in Bizzarro World.
“Yesterday...”
Who is this we, Sir Paul? We don’t have titles here.
Poor has been has TDS.
We?
Is he a US citizen?
Well, thinks like a walrus...
I have it on good authority that intelligence isn’t Paul’s strong suit.
Coo coo cachew...
McCartney has money and fame.
He can map out a plan and promote it.
Bashing Trump is a waste of his musical talent.
Theresa May? The Queen?
He’s been doing publicity for his new album lately. He seems pretty nice and down to earth, but no, probably not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Has-been drunken old woman.
go back to Liverpool
If Trump is mad what would have McCain been?????
Please don’t ruin your act with politics.
I quit listening to Paul a long time ago. I always thought the Beatles were very overrated, there were just a number of better groups out there. I give them their due as bubble gum Pop music greats, I actually liked George Harrison better as a solo artist.
Paul is old and cranky and smoking too much Ganja weed to know what’s really going on, he become a Socialist a long time ago. If he likes what England has become he really is senile.
no doubt he would prefer Gore! this is behind paywall:
16 Sept: UK Times: Robert Watts: A convenient truth as profits soar at Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management fund
Profits at the sustainable fund manager set up by former US vice-president Al Gore and ex-Goldman Sachs banker David Blood jumped by 66% to a record £248.5m last year.
Generation Investment Management, with assets of $18.5bn (£14.2bn), backs companies that “provide goods and services consistent with a low-carbon, prosperous, equitable, healthy and safe society”.
Turnover at the London-based operation grew to £293m last year, according to its recently filed accounts, which also reveal that one of Generation’s senior staff received a £41m cut of the £193m in profits distributed to the firm’s 32 members...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/business/a-convenient-truth-as-profits-soar-at-al-gore-s-generation-investment-management-fund-2wq0dzfgh
Paul....get out of my county!
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