President Donald Trump once threatened to sue Mac Miller over his 2011 track “Donald Trump,” but it seems the president is a bigger fan of the song than he has previously let on. Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee released a trove of documents related to the 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Natalia Veselnitskaya, the latter of whom was reportedly supposed to deliver damaging information on Trump’s then-rival Hillary Clinton. The meeting was set up by U.K. music publicist Rob Goldstone, who testified to congress that he heard Trump blasting the song in his office.
The Outline’s Drew Millard first pointed out the small excerpt, where Goldstone states:
We went and had about 10 minutes with Mr. Trump. Emin said hello, posed for a photograph. Mr. Trump at the time was listening to very loud rap music when we walked in, because he knew I was in music, said, look, I’ve been presented with a platinum disk for a song called, ‘Donald Trump,’ to which I —that’s how I remember this incident. I cautioned him that he should perhaps look at the words to the song before he enjoyed it so much.
Although there are multiple songs with Trump in the title, only Miller gifted Trump his Platinum plaque. Trump has since wavered on his support of the song. In 2011, he branded Mac Miller as “the next Eminem,” but later threatened a lawsuit after Miller badmouthed Trump in a 2013 interview with Complex. Mac has since further clarified that he doesn’t support the president’s politics. Back in 2015, he speculated what a Trump presidency might look like during an interview with Genius:
“Donald Trump” dropped in 2011, years before the business mogul would mount his presidential campaigns. The song, which appeared on Mac’s sophomore mixtape Best Day Ever, was one of the Pittsburgh rapper’s first major hits. It peaked at No. 75 on the Hot 100 chart and went Platinum in 2013. To this day, it remains Miller’s only Platinum-certified hit, although he’s charted several songs higher on the Hot 100.
Check out The Outline’s full report here and read all the lyrics to Mac Miller’s “Donald Trump on Genius now.
