David Cay Johnston likes to remind us that Donald Trump is the third-generation head of a four-generation crime family, as he puts it.
Delila Paz here gives us a reminder of the second-generation head, Trump’s father Fred Trump, with an expanded version of lyrics that Woody Guthrie wrote down about him.
Woody wrote down lots of lyrics to songs for which Guthrie researchers have little or no idea of what kind of music he was thinking of using to express them. This is one of them.
The song’s Wikipedia entry gives the lyrics as follows:
I suppose
Old Man Trump knows
Just how much
Racial Hate
He stirred up
In the bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed
That color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project
It also cites these lines from “an unreleased variant” opf Woody’s well-know "Ain't Got No Home”:
Beach Haven is Trump's Tower
Where no Black folks come to roam
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!
Notes:
(1) Delila of The Last Internationale - Woody Guthrie's "Old Man Trump". The Last Internationale YoTube channel 01/29/2026. (Accessed: 2026-07-02).
(2) Old Man Trump. Wikipedia 01/18/2026. <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Old_Man_Trump&oldid=1333496646> (Accessed: 2026-07-02).
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