Posted on 05/14/2026 3:28:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Paul McCartney, a longtime peace-oriented individual, still has an opinion on President Donald Trump and the effects of his administration.
In a recent episode of the podcast The Rest Is Entertainment, the Beatle spoke about how his music sometimes has the power to unite people despite their different backgrounds and political beliefs.
"I mean particularly these days, too, you do something like 'Hey Jude' and you see this whole audience singing together," he said before turning his attention specifically to the president. "And in Trump's America — and the Republicans and Democrats all at each other's throats — when we do that song, they're not.
"They're all loving it and they're all, it's like, 'Wow, this is pretty amazing,' you know? That suddenly this room has forgotten all of that and it's not, you know, going to argue with each other. We're all just going to sing together."
A Theme in Paul McCartney's Writing
In another recent podcast interview — this time with The Rest Is History — McCartney doubled down on the idea of making music that inspires harmony and hope.
"I think it's a theme in my stuff, in my writing, that even though stuff is hard. you are going to have to carry on or let it defeat you," he said. "I think that's very much from the wartime years that all of us grew up in. We'd seen the film of Hitler's bombers, you know, clouding the sky. And you'd seen the Belson pictures of the prisoners coming out in their striped uniforms, which is why I can never believe people deny the Holocaust. I mean, that is so insane. I think that's why there was quite a rich period for us, our generation, that we could now do good stuff and say, hey, it may be bad, but we can work this out. We can work it out."
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“Trump’s America”. No mention of Obama’s seminal role in dividing the country.
It’s not Trump’s fault. It’s the left’s fault.
Because politics in the UK is so civil ?
LOL. “...at Each Other’s Throats’
I only know about rabid, radical leftists trying to destroy society, get in people’s faces, and kill people they don’t like or disagree with. We know that all Democrat / liberal judges and DAs release violent thugs, rapists, and murderers free to continue their crimes. Those people are truly at other peoples’ throats.
It’s a one-way street. You never see peaceable, get-along, kind, friendly conservatives with that mind set.
He is nuts.
I’m not going to fault the guy. He made one mention of Trump, not many, and really didn’t seem to lay this at Trump’s feet. It was more of a shorthand for the present day.
Trump didn’t cause the division, he revealed it.
John and Paul were at each other’s throats for years without Trump being on their radar.
Of course, there’s not even a whisper of discord between their various factions, right? /sarc
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A pretty face night last a year or two. But pretty soon the’ll see what you can do. The sound you make is Muzak to my ears. You must have learned something on all those years. So tell me, how do you sleep at night?
It was much worse in LBJ’s America.
I always hated that song. Not as much as ‘imagine’ though.
And why would I GAS what some limey thinks about us?
Good song for Meatless Mondays McCartney.
John was a horribly vindictive and petty person.
Nah, Paul was going after him. He answered back. It’s Actualy the opposite. Uoun was hard outside, soft on the inside, Paul was the other way.
Yes. And ‘imagine’. 🤔👍
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