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.
that solo’s pretty long
Nope.
Trump is right.
:D
Right, that was back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and you had these big videos for the big bands. Another one that comes to mind is Bon Jovi’s “Blaze of Glory” with the helicopter shots out on the mesas. The abandoned drive-in movie theater sitting atop the mesa was a nice touch.
Fecking iconic and I defy anyone to not FEEL that scene.
only one guns and roses song i like
“I used to love her, but i had to kill her”
Thriller was the greatest Music Video of all time.
Well, except for all those cool Duran Duran Music Videos in the 80’s...
I still have a place in my heart for Smooth Criminal though.
I could watch that long-legged man for hours and be happy.
:D
Metallica’s S&M concert is better.
Every song.
Seriously, I love Guns but November Rain is just ponderous. And it's not just because it's long...indeed, the BEST Guns N' Roses video isn't a proper video, but their soundcheck and run-thru of Locomotive with Jeff Beck in Paris, 1992.
Rose I love your singing, but stick to something you know something about, like singing before you inform us of your drug induced stupidity.
Slash is in my Top Ten of “looks” that are iconic, eternal and awesome.
Alice is another, young Billy Idol, Ian Anderson right up until his Anton LaVey phase, Johnny Cash.
Can’t think of the others right now.
Maybe Trump is anticipating a storm with November reign?
A song that still gives frissons nearly 50 years on.
Show me a rap song that lasts more than a year or two.
Beautiful song and video.
Indeed.
Safety Dance.
Never get tired of that or White Wedding.
Come at me, bro!
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