# Trump has better election songs...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [June 2, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337 "2016-06-02T19:53:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Salvor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salvor)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337/1 "2016-06-02T19:53:59Z")
Oh god, I was spared this when it was released, but a talk host mentioned Trump being way ahead in one respect, Songs dedicated to the Trump Train…
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHcaP1-4Wbk)
They took the melody from the song from the hunger games. I don’t see Hillary inspiring this sort of creativity. Though perhaps Bernie could.
Granted, the catchy Trump tune is not entirely original, Kennedy had more panache there
And this could be used as ammunition against Clinton, what if someone created a catchy anti Clinton song that highlighted how dreary she was while speaking?
I’m telling you guys, this is dangerous stuff.
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337/2 "2016-06-02T20:03:32Z")
I recall hearing Garrison Keillor on _Prairie Home Companion_ a few years ago doing a retrospective on presidential campaign songs – time was when a song praising the candidate was a normal part of the process. The practice died out in the early 20th Century, I forget exactly when. Nowadays the parties simply use a party theme song that was not written for the party, let alone the candidate, like “Don’t Stop Thinkin’ About Tomorrow,” which replaced “Happy Days Are Here Again” as the Dems’ anthem.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337/3 "2016-06-02T20:16:38Z")
Remember when ReaganCo thought Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” was a boisterously patriotic tune? Last I heard, Trump was a Rolling Stones fan. They are not a fan of him, however.
> **[Get off my song! Stones to Trump | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/rolling-stones-donald-trump/)**
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> Donald Trump can't always get what he wants.
**Get off my song! Stones to Trump**
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337/4 "2016-06-02T20:29:18Z")
Better slogans, at least, too.
“Make America Great Again!”
vs.
“I’m with her.” 😕
“I’m ready for Hillary.” WTF? Once more, with enthusiasm!
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337/5 "2016-06-02T21:38:53Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> I recall hearing Garrison Keillor on _Prairie Home Companion_ a few years ago doing a retrospective on presidential campaign songs – time was when a song praising the candidate was a normal part of the process. The practice died out in the early 20th Century, I forget exactly when.
No one told Tricky Dick.
1960
1968
1972
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceocNS-toDk)
There was another one from 1960 that was really hilarious, done in marching band style complete with cheerleaders spelling out Nixon’s name. Can’t find it on a cursory search of YouTube, though. “He has the heart and the strength and youth/He’ll never be beat 'cause he tells the truth…Vote for Nixon on election day!”
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337/6 "2016-06-02T23:18:14Z")
Did Trump bother to pay royalties on any of the songs, or ask permission to use them?
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337/7 "2016-06-03T00:22:52Z")
Theoretically, maybe.
They can get a blanket license from a record company that allows them to use pretty much any of its copyrighted music, which often runs into PR issues with the bands themselves. Otherwise it’d be infringement, which I certainly wouldn’t put past the Keystone Kops movie that is the Trump campaign.
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### Author:  [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2016, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337/8 "2016-06-03T02:41:54Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#):
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> Better slogans, at least, too.
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> “Make America Great Again!”
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> vs.
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> “I’m with her.” 😕
> “I’m ready for Hillary.” WTF? Once more, with enthusiasm!
I seem to hear a mighty chaunting, as America lets rip with a mighty theme song, like a great wind, in unison from sea to shining sea:
_Hillary-Piggledy, my auld hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen,
Sometimes nine and sometimes ten;
Gentlemen come every day
To see what my auld hen has laid._
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### Author:  [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2016, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337/9 "2016-06-03T09:37:35Z")
I predict his campaign will get even more traction when he has The Presidents of the United States of America alter the lyrics to their hit song _Lump_:
He’s Trump, he’s Trump
He’s in my head
He’s Trump, he’s Trump, he’s Trump
The best we can get…
(I expect a fee, a _hefty_ fee, Mr. Trump, for the idea and for inspiring the lyrical change.)
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2016, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337/10 "2016-06-03T10:13:28Z")
Glad I’m not the only one who has had Lump stuck in my head for the past few months. Or Weird Al’s “Gump,” for that matter.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2016, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-has-better-election-songs/756337/11 "2016-06-03T10:44:49Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#):
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> No one told Tricky Dick.
Or JFK
1960: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DoUiNxh6\_0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DoUiNxh6_0)