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.
Best areosmith version ever. Thank you I must look for it now on Amazon unlimited prime. That’s all always brings tears to my eyes. Ronnie James Dio did a pretty good remake of course it’s not Aerosmith
It is such a terrible music video. It is ruined by Axel actually going insane at that point with that ridiculous ending walking in shorts in the winter. the first half was good but/hated that video and would only do it if he could play the guitar solo outside of the church. That’s when Axel started to lose his mind and wanted to make movies out of videos
That’s about his dog. I always thought it was about a woman.
whatever complete moron he is now, they were a great rock and roll band with a great bunch of songs.
I will still enjoy the music I don’t care about Axl Rose anymore.
:)
Come on how can you beat the “back off b****” lyrics?
making love
cheap heart breaker
broken backed
nasty ball breaker
get out of my bed
out of my head
if it’s loving you
I’m better off dead
Who hasn’t dated someone like that? :-)
The Everly Brothers should have beaten the tar out of him, when they had the chance.
Peter Cetera, another blast of bass.
Don Everly is still alive, 83, he should pound him into a pulp.
you know what? This is just like the point I made yesterday. I’m not going to stop listening to guns n’ roses because of his political view just like you are not going to stop watching the nfl. It’s a personal decision and I judge nobody.
I have never shopped at Target again, I stopped buying gillette. I stopped at drinking budweiser. And a bunch more period but you can’t give up everything
Let it go :-) who gives a *** what that’s a rose has to say he’s a singer in a band he’s not a member of the Senate
They are a tremendously talented group from Finland.
GNR was just here last year for Louder than Life music festival in Louisville, KY. Started 40 minutes late but ended up staying well over end time to make up being late (a THREE HOUR set) Bunch of ppl got pissy and left (”He sounds like shit!”) No, he sounds like a 50+ yr old that’s been screaming for the better part of 30 yrs. He’s not gonna sound like he did in 1987. We got to hear all of the GNR songs we love, including November Rain and Coma (which I never thought in a million years I’d hear live)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.