Paul McCartney has written a song about Trump
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First posted: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 12:36 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, August 01, 2017 12:52 AM EDT
Sir Paul McCartney has written a song about U.S. President Donald Trump.
The Beatles legend revealed the news while meeting with students at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, a college he co-founded in his English hometown.
According to the Liverpool Echo, the 75-year-old told his captive audience about the song, but did not elaborate on whether the tune was in favour of or against the controversial Republican leader.
“Sometimes the situation in the world is so crazy, that you’ve got to address it,” he shared.
He might have given a clue to the song’s likely angle, though, after recently telling Britain’s Daily Telegraph, “He’s (Trump) unleashed the ugly side of America. People feel like they have got a free pass to be, if not violent, at least antagonistic towards people of a different colour or a different race. I think we all thought we’d got past that a long time ago.”
During his college visit, McCartney was also asked his thoughts on whether new artists entering the industry are having a tougher time being heard because there are so many different music sharing platforms.
“I’m not sure it’s more difficult, ‘cause you still have to have a good song,” he reasoned.
Meanwhile, the Let it Be star is busy working on his forthcoming album, the follow-up to 2013’s New, with top producer Greg Kurstin, who has also laid down tracks lately for the likes of Adele, Sia and Kelly Clarkson. McCartney did not confirm whether the new Trump tune will appear on the album.
He has also teamed up with his former Beatles colleague, Ringo Starr, for the track We’re On The Road Again, for the drummer’s next solo album, Give More Love. The project, due for release in September, will be Starr’s first since 2015’s Postcards from Paradise.
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J.K. Rowling apologizes for tweeting misinformation about Trump’s interaction with disabled boy
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First posted: Monday, July 31, 2017 01:10 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, July 31, 2017 01:31 PM EDT
J.K. Rowling is apologizing to a wheelchair-bound child and U.S. president Donald Trump after a series of inaccurate tweets about the pair.
The Harry Potter creator faced online backlash and was accused of spreading fake news after she accused Trump of purposely ignoring a wheelchair-bound child during a recent White House meet-and-greet.
But video posted online shows the U.S. president going out of his way to touch the little boy’s hand and pay him special attention.
In yet another series of tweets, the best-selling author is now apologizing for the rant and acknowledging that her tweets were inaccurate and 'clearly projected' her own sensitivities. The previous tweets, she says, will be 'deleted.'
After word of Rowling's tweets spread, the boy’s mother came to Trump’s defence in an effort to set the record straight following the author's inaccurate portrayal of White House events.
“My mother used a wheelchair. I witnessed people uncomfortable around her disability, but if they had a shred of decency they got over it,” Rowling tweeted.
“So, yes, that clip of Trump looking deliberately over a disabled child's head, ignoring his outstretched hand, has touched me on the raw.
Rowling continued: “That man occupies the most powerful office in the free world and his daily outrages against civilised norms are having a corrosive effect.
“How stunning, and how horrible, that Trump cannot bring himself to shake the hand of a small boy who only wanted to touch the President.”
My mother used a wheelchair. I witnessed people uncomfortable around her disability, but if they had a shred of decency they got over it. 1/
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
So, yes, that clip of Trump looking deliberately over a disabled child's head, ignoring his outstretched hand, has touched me on the raw. /2
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
How stunning, and how horrible, that Trump cannot bring himself to shake the hand of a small boy who only wanted to touch the President. /4x
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) July 28, 2017
Marjorie Kelly Weer, the disabled boy’s mother, took to Facebook to rebuff Rowling’s social media postings.
According to multiple reports, Weer wrote: “Uummmmm....If someone can please get a message to JK Rowling: Trump didn’t snub my son & Monty wasn’t even trying to shake his hand (1. He.s 3 and hand shaking is not his thing, 2. he was showing off his newly acquired secret service patch). Thanks.”
Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan also swooped to Trump’s defence, calling Rowling’s words – and her apparent refusal to retract them -- “disgraceful.”
“So @JK_rowling's been back on Twitter but neither deleted, nor apologised for, this disgraceful lie. Her Trump-loathing knows no honesty,” Morgan wrote.
Morgan also penned a column for the Daily Mail on Monday that ripped Rowling for not correcting her error.
"She is telling her millions of young impressionable Potter fans that it’s absolutely fine to lie and never correct or apologise for a lie – after spending the past two years telling them that Trump is disgusting because he lies and never corrects or apologises for his lies," Morgan wrote.
Despite his propensity to heckle and fire back at opponents through Twitter, Trump hasn’t yet taken to social media to smear Rowling for her inaccuracy.
J.K. Rowling apologizes for tweeting misinformation about Trump
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