Woodie Guthrie's "dislike" of Fred and Donnie Trump

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Interesting article from 2016 in "The Conversation" about Woodie Guthrie's "dislike" of Fred and Donnie Trump.

For those of you too young to know about Woodie, he was one of the early anti war folk singers. He along with Pete Seeger, later Bob Dylan, the Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, Joannie Mitchel and others influenced a lot of us early to learn things the government didn't want us to know.
Woodie was the classic folk singer and wrote MANY songs of the day protesting much of what Uncle Sam kept to himself.
I added the site url to read about his "dislike" for Fred and Son and added a youtube url Playlist of Woodie's Songs.
Over the next few years while you're sitting around waiting for unemployment and SS checks, listen to some of his music.


Woody Guthrie, ‘Old Man Trump’ and a real estate empire’s racist foundations

Woody Guthrie lived in Fred Trump’s Beach Haven apartment complex for two years. Nick Lehr/The Conversation

In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even now, over half a century later, that uninspiring document prompts a double-take.

Below all the legal jargon is the signature of the man who had composed “This Land Is Your Land,” the most resounding appeal to an equal share for all in America. Below that is the signature of Donald Trump’s father, Fred. No pairing could appear more unlikely.

Guthrie’s two-year tenancy in one of Fred Trump’s buildings and his relationship with the real estate mogul of New York’s outer boroughs produced some of Guthrie’s most bitter writings, which I discovered on a recent trip to the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa. These writings have never before been published; they should be, for they clearly pit America’s national balladeer against the racist foundations of the Trump real estate empire.

Recalling these foundations becomes all the more relevant in the wake of the racially charged proclamations of Donald Trump, who last year announced, “My legacy has its roots in my father’s legacy.”

The comments from 9 years ago show the excuses and support for trump.

https://theconversation.com/woody-guthrie-old-man-trump-and-a-real-estate-empires-racist-foundations-53026]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1C6BC9D38AB42B0D

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1. Some say this Trackdown episode was in response to what Fred Trump was doing. . .

It's much more eerily predictive however of how his son would turn out to be.