Pulitzer Prize-winning poet reveals Trump prank Paul McCartney pulled on him

Paul McCartney apparently makes a perfect impression of Donald Trump.

That’s what Irish Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon says, revealing on Thursday how the legendary Beatle played a joke on him in 2016 by posing as then president.

Muldoon, a Princeton University professor working with McCartney on his upcoming memoir, told the BBC’s Radio 4 “Today” show that shortly after meeting the musician, he received a phone call. It was, he said, “from everyone, Donald Trump, asking me to come to Washington to serve as his poetry czar for the next four years.” It would have been in 2016. ”

“And, of course, I was rather taken aback,” Muldoon continued. “And it turned out, needless to say, that it was Paul McCartney who made a very good impression.”

McCartney’s memoir – titled “The Lyrics: 1956 to Today” – is due out in November. Published by Muldoon, the book tells the story of the 78-year-old musician through his songs.

While McCartney has yet to perform his impression of Trump in public, the singer-songwriter did brush off the former president’s climate change denial in the song “Despite Repeated Warnings” from his album. of 2018, “Egypt Station”.

Denying the climate crisis (as Trump does) was “the dumbest thing ever,” McCartney said in a BBC interview upon the record’s release.

“So I just wanted to do a song that would basically say, you know, every once in a while we have a crazy captain sailing this boat that we’re all on and he’s just going to take us over the iceberg,” he said. -he explains.

When asked if the ‘mad captain’ was’ someone in particular ‘, McCartney said it was’ obviously’ Trump, ‘but I don’t get too involved because there are a lot of them. . He is not the only one.

In 2017, McCartney criticized Trump for triggering “a kind of violent prejudice that is sometimes latent among people.”

“He unleashed the ugly side of America,” McCartney told Australian media. “People feel like they have a free pass to be, if not violent, at least antagonistic to people of a different color or race. I think we all thought we got past that a long time ago.