“Goodnight America”, according to frontman Pete Lawrie Winfield, is “pro America, anti creeping nausea, pro choice, anti anything else.” The song gained some traction after it was used on Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2018 political satire series Who Is America?.

The music video contains footage from Donald Trump rallies, police violence, nuclear bomb tests, and more. The song in particular takes aim at Donald Trump, who has been a very controversial presidential candidate for the 2016 Election, and bashes the ideas that he has had such as ‘building a wall to keep the Mexicans out’, as well as him gloating of his wealth.

In an article from Pitchfork, Lawrie stated:

It would have been nice to have seen through my daydream, to have drawn the blinds, battened down the hatches and pretended that the country that I now call home, a country that I love, wasn’t falling victim to some kind of cartoonish nightmare. This song is pro America, anti creeping nausea, pro choice, anti anything else. To dissect it too much, to feel the need to explain it seems unnecessary. We are all privy to the same information now, we are all awake.