Acclaimed Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes once wrote, “Where there is music, there can be no malice.”
However, if you were alive today you might feel the need to revise that statement when listening to this particular song.
When many thought that the former US president had already been consigned to history, he returns for another bizarre act that will leave many perplexed.
Donald Trump has just made his musical debut, at least technically, by publishing the first single.
In fact, the new single was recorded by a choir of individuals who are in prison for their participation in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The record contains a recording of the former president as “background music”.
The song, “Justice for All” by Donald J Trump and the J6 Prison Choir is now available on streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. J6” – singing the American anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner”, with Trump in the background reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the American flag.
Listen to it here, if you’re curious:
For those who have chosen to stay sane and value hearing health, you won’t lack much.
It’s just 2 minutes and 21 seconds of “patriotic” postures interspersed by a voice only a mother could love, followed by more chants of “USA! USA! USA!”!
Hardly a success on a national scale…
Forbes, the first publication to announce this production, said it was “produced by an unnamed major musical artist”.
The publication also said that Trump’s charity single was intended to raise money for the families of those arrested, and that the project would not “benefit families of people who assaulted a police officer”.
Citing “a person with knowledge of the project,” Forbes said the chorus was made up of about 20 inmates from the Washington, DC-based prison and was recorded over the phone from the jail itself.
Some of those who were aurally assaulted took to social media to express disgust.
Robert Maguire, director of research at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said: “I have never been so repulsed by a song sung by a president who attempted a coup d’état and a literal “chorus” of insurrectionists who tried to help him. ”.
Trump has repeatedly expressed sympathy for those jailed for the acts committed on January 6, and has declared that those who carried out the insurrection are persecuted by the state.
Before announcing his third presidential campaign in November, he said that, if re-elected, he would consider granting full pardons for troublemakers.
The Capitol riot resulted in nine deaths. More than a thousand people were accused of involvement and around 500 pleaded guilty.