Paul McCartney apparently gives a good impression of Donald Trump.
According to Irish poet Paul Muldoon, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, who revealed on Thursday how the legendary Beatle played a trick on him in 2016 pretending to be the then president.
Muldoon, a professor at Princeton University who worked with McCartney on his next memoirs, told BBC Radio 4’s “Today” that shortly after meeting the musician, he received a call. It was, he said, “of all people, Donald Trump, asking me to come to Washington to act as his poetry czar for the next four years. That would have been in 2016. ”
“And, of course, I was quite surprised,” continued Muldoon. “And it turned out, needless to say, that it was Paul McCartney making an extremely good impression.”
McCartney’s memoir – titled “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present” – is scheduled for release in November. Edited by Muldoon, the book will chronicle the 78-year-old musician’s life through his songs.
Although McCartney has yet to present his impression of Trump in public, the singer and songwriter attacked the former president’s denial of climate change in the song “Despite repeated warnings” from his 2018 album, “Egypt Station”.
Denying the climate crisis (as Trump does) was “the stupidest thing ever,” McCartney said in an interview with the BBC about the album’s release.
“So, I just wanted to make a song that basically would say, you know, occasionally, we have a crazy captain sailing on this boat that we’re all on and he’s going to take us to the iceberg,” he explained.
When pressed about whether the “crazy captain” was “someone in particular”, McCartney said he was “obviously” Trump, “but I don’t get too involved because there are so many of them around. He is not the only one. “
In 2017, McCartney criticized Trump for triggering “a type of violent prejudice that is sometimes latent among people.”
“He liberated the ugly side of America,” McCartney told Australian media. “People feel that they have a free pass to be, if not violent, at least antagonistic towards people of another color or race. I think we all think we’ve gotten over it a long time ago. “
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