Sir Paul McCartney doesn’t like President Trump. Michelle’s his belle. But Trump? He is the subject of a new song from the singer, Despite Repeated Warnings.
Sir Paul told, “People who deny climate change, I just think it’s the most stupid thing ever. So I just wanted to make a song that would talk about that and basically say, ‘Occasionally, we’ve got a mad captain sailing this boat we’re all on and he is just going to take us to the iceberg [despite] being warned it’s not a cool idea.’”
He said Trump is the Mad Captain.
The BBC didn’t ask Sir Paul about the Mad Captain’s call to give Ireland back to the Irish. Hmm.
54 years ago, Sir Paul had a minor hit by his standard with Give Ireland Back to the Irish.
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Give Lapland back to the Lapps
Give Ireland back to the Irish
Give Yoko back to the Japs
OK, maybe that was not an exact transcription, but you get the general idea. Trump visited Ireland last weekend and held a news conference with Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheál Martin. A reporter asked Trump about giving Ireland back to the Irish, meaning having Northern Ireland, now in British hands, join Ireland.
Trump said, “Well, I don’t want to cause any problems, but I will tell you, I’d love to see it unified. I have friends on both sides, great people. They’re Irish people. How can they be bad, right? I’d love to see it unified. I think it would be a great feather in everybody’s cap if that happened. It’s going to happen eventually. You know what? The way I look at it, it’s going to happen eventually. It may as well happen now.
“You’ve got the right man over here to get it moving. But, yeah, I think it would be a fantastic thing. Now the UK will have something to say about it, obviously. But I think it would be a great thing. I mean, how can it be bad?”
This ended the USA’s neutrality on reunification under the Good Friday Agreement.
Unelected British PM Andy “Try Not To” Burnham has long opposed holding a vote on reunification. He said in response, “I am not aware that there is majority public support for another referendum, and until that changes, there will not be one.”
Nigel Farage said Trump’s comments were not helpful. They were not meant to be.
You know what was really unhelpful? Refusal to let the U.S. use its bases on British soil for the opening offensive strikes against Iran. This included B-2s based at Diego Garcia as the British tried to veto the war.
The politicians may be against Trump, but the Irish love him.
The situation in Ireland began when the Brits defeated the Irish in the Nine Years War in 1603. The earls fled to Europe and Protestants from Britain and Scotland took their lands.
The Catholics rebelled in 1641 against Protestant rule. The Catholics created Confederate Ireland, an alternative government that lasted 10 years until the British Army prevailed. The Protestants kept the land. Eventually the Anglicans went after the Scottish Presbyterians.
Rather than rebel, Scotch-Irish Protestants and later Irish Catholics emigrated to America and Canada, easing tensions. The Irish Potato Famine in 1845 led to the flight of 2 million people—one-quarter of the population. Tens of thousands of people died on the voyage or shortly after arrival in the USA and Canada.
The Irish Rebellion of 1916 led to the creation of the Republic of Ireland with Northern Ireland remaining part of the UK.
A half-century later The Troubles began in Northern Ireland when Catholic rebels fought to reunite with Ireland and Protestant loyalists said no. This lead to Sir Paul’s silly song that oversimplified the situation. The Irish owned Ireland, it is just that about 27% had a British government.
The Good Friday Agreement, which kept the status quo, ended The Troubles in 1998 after 30 years and 3,700 graves. All that fighting, all those terrorist bombs, changed nothing.
At the time, less than 1% of the Irish were non-white. Today, 13% are. Eventually that will lead to The New Troubles.
Oh, and The Donald wasn’t through with paybacks.
Yahoo Finance reported, “Prepare for more alcohol from across the pond, as the first sitting president to attend the Irish Open said Sunday that Irish whiskey will be tariff-free.
“This comes as multiple Canadian products, including alcohol, still fall under heavy tariffs and import bans.
“The Open, hosted at Donald Trump’s own resort Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Doonbeg Ireland, ended with him presenting the winner’s trophy to Ireland’s Shane Lowry—and a message for Irish distillers.”
75% of the whiskey produced in Canada was sold in the USA. Crown Royal now faces a 50% tax.
Jameson whiskey distilled in County Cork now faces ZERO taxes.
The Mad Captain keeps winning. Opponents keep suffering Trumpenfreude. Point at them and laugh.
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