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Trump received four student draft deferments while an undergraduate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. And in the spring of 1968, he received the "1-Y" classification – for bone spurs in his heels, per The New York Times.įogerty added: "The fact that Mr. Trump is a prime example of both of these issues." "I wrote this song because, as a veteran, I was disgusted that some people were allowed to be excluded from serving our country because they had access to political and financial privilege," Fogerty wrote alongside a picture of him in uniform. "I also wrote about wealthy people not paying their fair share of taxes. The song has been treated as a patriotic working-class anthem, but listen past its star-spangled opening lines - "Some folks are born made to wave the flag/Ooh, they're red, white and blue" - for Fogerty's anti-establishment storytelling about how the poor were sent to fight and die in Vietnam while the wealthy were spared. Leonard Cohen’s estate 'exploring our legal options' after Trump plays 'Hallelujah'įogerty went on to explain that "Fortunate Son" is ironically an anti-war-movement anthem that criticizes privileged people who used their money and status to defer from the Vietnam War draft.
"He is using my words and my voice to portray a message that I do not endorse."įogerty added that he's "issuing a ‘cease and desist’ order." "I object to the President using my song, 'Fortunate Son' in any way for his campaign," Fogerty, 75, wrote in a statement posted to Twitter. The former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman took to Twitter Friday with a scathing response to Trump after the president played the rock band's 1969 hit "Fortunate Son" at his campaign events, including a September rally in Freeland, Michigan. John Fogerty is denouncing President Donald Trump's unauthorized use of his song.
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