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GUNS N' ROSES' rendition of
"Live And Let Die" was played on loudspeakers earlier today (Thursday, August 6) before
President Donald Trump's scheduled speech at the Whirlpool Corp.'s washing machine manufacturing plant in Clyde, Ohio.
A reporter covering the event tweeted video of the
GUNS N' ROSES version of the
WINGS track blaring on the live feed.
The Intercept writer
Robert Mackey wrote in an accompanying message: "The White House is playing
"Live And Let Die" before
Trump's arrival at a thinly disguised campaign event in Ohio that the state's governor cannot attend because he just came down with Covid-19, the disease that killed over 1,400 Americans yesterday."
Earlier today, Ohio governor
Mike DeWine tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of meeting with
Trump. According to his office,
DeWine took a test as part of the standard protocol to greet
Trump on the tarmac at Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland.
This is not the first time
GUNS N' ROSES' cover of
"Live And Let Die" has been played at a
Trump event in the pandemic era. Back in May,
Trump visited a manufacturing plant without wearing a face mask as the song played on loudspeakers during his visit. Video footage of
Trump's visit went viral because he and his entourage were at a Honeywell factory in Phoenix to witness the production of anti-COVID-19 N95 masks.
In response to the Internet hoopla,
GUNS N' ROSES released a shirt features the slogan "Live N' Let Die With COVID 45", apparently referencing the fact that
Trump is the 45th president of the United States.
"Live And Let Die" was originally written by
Sir Paul McCartney for the 1973
James Bond film of the same name, and performed by
WINGS. The song was covered by
GUNS N' ROSES on their 1991 album
"Use Your Illusion I", and it has since become a staple of the group's live set.
GUNS N' ROSES singer
Axl Rose has frequently spoken out against the
Trump administration, most recently in July, when he defended his right to voice his political opinions, saying that he feels an "obligation to say something" about the "irresponsibility of this administration."
Back in November 2016,
Rose took to
Twitter to condemn then-President-elect
Donald Trump's choice for U.S. attorney general, and to berate
Trump for demanding an apology from the cast of the Broadway show
"Hamilton" after then-Vice President-elect
Mike Pence was booed when he attended the musical. One month later,
Rose invited fans at a
GUNS N' ROSES concert in Mexico City to beat the crap out of a large piñata designed to look like
Trump.
In January 2018,
Axl blasted the
Trump administration as the "gold standard of what can be considered disgraceful."
Photo credit:
Katarina Benzova