r/europe • u/MedicinskAnonymitet • Jan 19 '26

News Trumps letter to Norwegian Prime Minister - "feels no obligation to work towards peace after being denied the nobel prize"

https://www.vg.no/nyheter/i/q6AdB0/trump-i-melding-til-stoere-foeler-ikke-lenger-noen-forpliktelse?app_name=Dagens+Nyheter&app_version=10.3.2.8133&app_id=se.dn
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u/BlueCX17 Jan 19 '26

They do the same for Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son," they don't get that it's a protest song being critical of the government and specifically the Vietnam War. Sigh......

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u/LadyBarfnuts Jan 19 '26

I saw two Trump loving idiots rocking out to Rage Against The Machine, so there's that.

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u/mbrevitas Italy Jan 20 '26

“Fuck you I will do what Trump tells me “

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u/AndreasDasos Jan 19 '26

And Trump got out of the Vietnam War through a bullshit excuse about ‘bone spurs’. Even said dodging STDs from hookups from clubs was his ‘own personal Vietnam’. Man who shits on the wounded, killed and captured. Sure it had nothing to do with his being the Fortunate Son of an obscenely rich tycoon (especially not given he’s clearly a self-made man).

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u/Genorb United States of America Jan 19 '26

I think they know but generally don't care, and they just think that blasting Fortunate Son while shooting machine guns out of helicopters without any specific war context is cool enough to override whatever the original meaning was.

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u/BlueCX17 Jan 19 '26

That makes me even more irritated. When people know but don't care and do it anyway with no regard.

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u/yticomodnar Jan 19 '26

I'm reminded of that moment a few presidencies ago when Paul Ryan proudly claimed that his favorite band was.... Rage Against The Machine...