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It\u2019s hard not to presume that Donald Trump is a fan of Creedence Clearwater Revival\u2019s 1969 hit \u201cFortunate Son.\u201d If nothing else, the song has popped up often enough on playlists at Trump\u2019s various events and rallies\u2014in defiance of both John Fogerty\u2019s own cease and desist requests<\/a>, and frequent commentary pointing out the irony of a man who bone spurred his way out of service in Vietnam gravitating to a song railing against the inequities of its draft\u2014to suggest he enjoys its iconic guitars, along with its presumably vague-in-his-brains associations with a war-time context. Still, it\u2019s such a flummoxing\u00a0<\/em>song, lyrics-wise, for Trump to obsess over, that its latest use by his marketing wing\u2014in a TruthSocial post<\/a> where it was used to soundtrack the United States\u2019 sudden attack on Venezuela in the early-morning hours of January 3, 2026\u2014forces us to fall back on an old question that frequently crops up in discussions where logic is futilely deployed against this administration\u2019s actions: Stupidity, trolling, or both?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We should start by acknowledging that the question is ultimately academic: Trump\u2019s going to keep using the song, no matter what anyone says, because he wants to, and because there appear to be no levers of control that anyone who has access to them is willing to stand up and use that could actually force him to stop. In the light of that apparent, determined powerlessness, trying to figure out whether the man and his cronies genuinely don\u2019t understand that \u201cFortunate Son\u201d\u2018s anti-war meaning flies in direct opposition to this latest use, or whether said deployment is a deliberate effort to thumb their noses at the idea that art can have any inherent meaning whatsoever, or whether it\u2019s really just about the pleasures of irritating people who demand some measure of logic or consistency from them is, in its own way, playing directly into the troll\u2019s hands. The incoherence, to mutate an old catechism about Trump\u2019s first administration, is the point.<\/p>\n And, really, it\u2019s possible\u2014nigh certain\u2014that we\u2019re overthinking this. Trump was, after all, 23 when CCR released \u201cFortunate Son,\u201d and the song has been employed so aggressively in the Hollywood movies he obsesses over across the decades that it may simply now be lodged in his brain as \u201ckick-ass war song,\u201d with no further thought given. (See also his weird obsession with Apocalypse Now<\/em><\/a>, where White House marketing has glommed on to the gung-ho aesthetics\u00a0<\/em>of portions of Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s film while gleefully shucking them of their attached meaning.) The fact is, Trump came of age in an era where the cutting edge of American art was determinedly anti-war, which presents at least an ostensible barrier to his efforts to deploy that same art in order to feel like some kind of powerful, young, hawkish badass, while his military advisers Wormtongue their way around him, plotting their various global coups. Luckily for him, things like context and reality have always been easy for him and his administration to dodge; on that level, who are we to say he isn\u2019t the most fortunate son of all?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.pastemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s hard not to presume that Donald Trump is a fan of Creedence Clearwater Revival\u2019s 1969 hit \u201cFortunate Son.\u201d If nothing else, the song has popped up often enough on playlists at Trump\u2019s various events and rallies\u2014in defiance of both John Fogerty\u2019s own cease and desist requests, and frequent commentary pointing out the irony of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2223051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Is-Trumps-obsession-with-Fortunate-Son-trolling-stupidity-or-both.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223052,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223050\/revisions\/2223052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}