Paul McCartney on Trump: "We've Got a Mad Captain Sailing This Boat We're All On'

Paul McCartney, the old British singer who once masturbated with John Lennon and saw God while high on drugs, and who once was in the spotlight, like everyone who wants to be relevant, has attacked President Trump. He did it in song in his newly-released 17th solo album, Egypt Station.

How brave of him. How very Kaepernick-esque.

"If I'm on a train, I see everybody else just looking at their screens," he told BBC News, "but I'm looking out: 'Oh look, there's the London Eye! There's the River Thames!'"

McCartney went on, "Sometimes they do look up and they take a little picture and they sell it to the newspaper. And this is the price of fame."

The has-been singer-songwriter recently tested this idea. In the lead up to his concert in New York's Grand Central Station, he wandered through the atrium and filming the audience on his iPhone--"just to get a feel of it," he told the BBC.

Nobody noticed him even once.

So maybe if he went after Trump, people would notice him. Trump supporters would hate him, of course, but Trump haters would love him, and he would be noticed again and maybe do drugs like in the good old days.

Speaking about the old days, there was a time when the Beatles were literally chased down the streets by screaming, adoring fans. To deal with this, the band increased their security and just kept walking when this happened.

Egypt Station includes a number of songs like "Who Cares," which McCarthy said was inspired by Taylor Swift's "sisterly" relationship with her fans and addresses internet bullying.

"I was imagining talking to one of these young fans and saying, 'Have you ever been bullied? Do you get bullied?'" he added.

"Then I say, 'Who cares about the idiots? Who cares about all this? Who cares about you? Well . . . I do,'" wock-a-doo.

Then just to be safe as a liberal, a second song titled "Despite Repeated Warnings," takes it to the next level at the end of the day. It's about climate change and, you guessed it, McCartney is a global warming kind of guy, singing loudly, "Those who shout the loudest, may not always be the smartest."

Very, very heavy.

"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.'"

When asked who could be the "mad captain" McCartney said, "Obviously it's Trump . . . but there's plenty of them about. He's not the only one."

Right. Why not discuss China, the EU, India and Russia too?



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