All the communists loved the song.
well i think the singer’s point is probably (I am not sure of this) to try to make a racist statement, rather than a communist one (I could be wrong, I have never heard of her and know nothing about her politics and do not want to, ha! I wish these singers would just shut up and sing. I got paid to work, not make racial or political statements on my boss’s time and payroll)
but anyway,
the lyrics were I think mostly to make a racial statement, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the Inagural ceremony or DJT so it was totally proper to exclude it, imho:
Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees1
Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop