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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Maxwell’s Silver Hammer drove the others crazy. Paul was so obsessed with perfection they would walk out.
Paul McCarntney should STFU about american politics, he’s lived a long life and stayed out of it, now he wades in? Huge beatles fan but Paul, shut up and sing.
I HATE that song. It doesn’t deserve to be on the absolute masterpeace that is Abbey Road.
Worry about your own shit-hole country Paul.
“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” is a weak McCartney song and is the low point of the great “Abbey Road “ album.
I agree. I just think he’s making observations without any value judgements either way. IOW, he’s staying in his lane.
CC
So Paul. No depth.
Paul is comfortable with all-encompassing global fascist power.
Yesterday is a pretty good song.
Ah, but Revolution is one of the top Conservative songs of all time. The left HATED it.
Sounds like McCartney has bought into the media hype about the power of his product. What a delusional narcissist.
And he is about as articulate as the average 10-year-old, apparently.
Paul is good when he is rocking hard, when he gets cutsey it’s turn off time.
Unlike Paul’s England where he no longer can speak freely and is ruled by Muslims? Ha!
That and Biden’s lawfare.
Yep.
In the UK they will quite civilly throw you in prison for pointing out that a mohammedan is a rapist.
There they will put you in with mohammedan rapists so you can be assaulted, because male mohammedans are a bunch of sodomites.
BTW that post would, in the UK get me a visit from the de-versity po-lice.
McCartney should just shut up.
No. It’s pinko commies that are scratching like little soy boys. And violently erupting in rage when they don’t get their way.
The rest of us are fine.
I understand he has re-written it to fit the tastes of his UK audience.
"Hey Jews,
Lie down and die,
the mohammdians are now our masters,
let us give them our kids to sodomize
Oh, look what balls I had have vanished.
La, la la la la la la
Praise mohammad!
Paul. Yes.
Let’s get back to the things we’re all really United on...
...hating Yoko.
One of the great political minds of the 20th century
If only Thomas Sowell had listened to him
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