Where Are All Of Trump’s Faves?

Guest Post By Minister Of Culture Gary Mullinax:

Where’s Kid Rock? Or Lee Greenwood. Or Toby Keith. Maybe they’re hanging out at the YMCA with the Village People.

One thing’s for sure. These Trump favorites aren’t on the newly announced list of 25 songs added to the National Recording Registry. Must be a liberal highbrow kind of thing.

The registry showcases “the range and diversity of American recorded sound heritage.” It has honored 675 recordings since it started in 2002, including the 25 this year. Recordings must be at least 10 years old. The first class included ragtime by Scott Joplin, Carole King’s “Tapestry” and Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s on First.”

I saw the word “diversity” in the statement above. Could be trouble. The registry is part of the Library of Congress, the kind of place Trump has been going after.

Are Tracy Chapman, Mary J. Blige and Miles Davis just DEI selections?

What about Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman”? Just another scary feminist diatribe.

“Before the Next Teardrop Falls” by the Tejano Freddie Fender? Nope. Mexican. (OK, south Texas, but he sings in that accent!.)

”Hamilton” will stay on the registry list but avoided MAGA cancellation from the Kennedy Center by canceling itself.

I think Trump’s OK with Elton John, so I guess “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” can stay.

And “Happy Trails” is a cowboy song he might go for. But you don’t have to be MAGA to fondly remember Roy Rogers and Dale Evans singing it as a goodbye at the end of their TV show.

Political implications aside, I just can’t see Trump grooving to “Chicago Transit Authority” or nodding along to Keith Jarrett’s jazzy “Koln Concert.” I don’t know what he does when he listens to Kid Rock. (Editor’s Query: Wasn’t that Kid Rock playing in the background on the Russian Pee Tapes?)

The non-music selections include Chuck Thompson’s 1960 call of Bill Mazeroski’s World Series-winning home run and a Don Rickles comedy routine, Hello Dummy. The Microsoft Windows Reboot Chime doesn’t exactly feel like music, but it was written by the very good musician Brian Eno.

I don’t think he’s on Trump’s playlist either.