Originally Posted by
Jonny Come Lately
I can totally understand why Neil doesn't want Rockin' In The Free World to be associated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign. I suspect that when it came to choosing the song Trump simply thought of the chorus and how great it was to be rocking in the free world, rather than the biting social criticisms in the verses which strongly opposed the policies of Bush Senior (most notably 'We got a kinder, gentler machine gun hand', which directly attacked his 'kinder, gentler nation' speech).