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Paul McCartney on Trump’s America: ‘All at Each Other’s Throats’
UltimateClassicRock ^ | May 14, 2026 | Allison Rapp

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."


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music; paulmccartney; politis; trump

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To: nickcarraway

Paul McCartney STFU foreigner


61 posted on 05/14/2026 5:10:08 PM PDT by A strike (Drool Britannia)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

THIS!!!


62 posted on 05/14/2026 5:26:14 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ. institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: nickcarraway

Idiot. Too many years of adulation and limitless income = white guilt


63 posted on 05/14/2026 5:33:39 PM PDT by albie
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To: nickcarraway

If only we conservatives would be a little more agreeable and complacent….then the sha-nan-igans would stop.


64 posted on 05/14/2026 5:34:26 PM PDT by conservative_cyclist (Trump Fan from Day 1, Praying~keepT rump and America Safe)
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To: conservative_cyclist

It seems ike conservatives are too agreeable and complacent.


65 posted on 05/14/2026 5:37:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Flycatcher

It’s also been claimed he was starting to lean right politically,


You think Yoko was just going to let him do that? As Dennis Leary said, What kind of country is this where John Lennon gets six bullets in the chest, and Yoko is standing right next to him and not one bullet?


66 posted on 05/14/2026 6:01:17 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Vermont Lt

how about tax man?


67 posted on 05/14/2026 6:48:09 PM PDT by joshua c
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To: BlueStateRightist

In article, McCartney doesn’t blame President Trump, but he identifies USA as Trump’s America. That is a way to absolve oneself from targeting PDJT, while making sure blame is placed on President Trump. He almost gets away with it.


68 posted on 05/14/2026 6:58:52 PM PDT by NetAddicted (MAGA2024)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
IOW, for the dean of entertainment industry nitwits, it's okay when phones of elected officials are being seized, homes are being raided, illegal surveillance is being conducted, lawfare based on no law is going on, ballot boxes are being stuffed, perjury is being suborned, fake evidence is being touted on media...

69 posted on 05/15/2026 5:44:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: nickcarraway

Paul, a nancyboy Englishgirl, thinks if we don’t give violent nutball liberals everything they want then when they throw a temper tantrum it is our fault.

He’s the type of cuck we see letting a toddler throw a tantrum and he caves.


70 posted on 05/15/2026 5:50:13 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad

Another life wasted by placing values before morals


71 posted on 05/15/2026 5:52:18 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: nickcarraway

Yes we are and it all started with the CLINTONS!


72 posted on 05/15/2026 6:35:41 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Zug-zug him.


73 posted on 05/15/2026 6:59:39 AM PDT by GingisK
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