Biden Administration is taking heat for underqualified DFWS director with no scientific education:
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“ The band’s frontman famously called Trump “the greatest swindler” in history.”
That’s a boss move.
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So… is this the very first time that an American president was associated with a punk song? 
Obama had tons of hip-hop artists to the white house, etc, but was there any punk rock around his white house?
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Biden toured County Louth, pausing at Carlingford Castle, which could well have been the last Irish landmark that Owen Finnegan, his maternal great-great-grandfather, saw before sailing for New York in 1849. As he gazed at the sea, thousands cheered to him from the streets below, mixing with the sound of bagpipes that wafted from the green hills.
“I don’t know why the hell my ancestors left here,” Biden said. “It’s beautiful.”
Emphasis mine. I can think of a good reason.
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“Biden has so much Irish in him he doesn’t need a drink to slur his words.” -Michael Che (actual writer unknown)
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When he cheeses it… he really cheeses it, doesn’t he?
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The Dead Kennedy’s referenced Rosalyn Carter in “Bleed for Me” when they sung it live. Surely the first reference to a First Lady. 1982.
Bonzo Goes to Bitburg referenced Jimmy Carter, but that was 1985. Not sure if Reagan was referenced before that.
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I think people are confused about what I mean - yes, there are tons of references about presidents IN punk songs, in punk media, etc - I’m pretty aware of that fact. But I don’t think it’s ever been the the other way around, presidents (or almost any major politician until pretty recently) referencing punk in any sort of positive way… As far as I know, this is the first time an American president appeared on stage to a punk song…
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All I can think of is Nixon griping about commie punk youths… /s
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Wasn’t he on about the hippies, though? I do remember that one of his speech writers wrote an article about punks in the late 70s and how terrible they were… he was on the cutting edge of the punk panic!
And Reagan was much hated by punks, but I honestly can’t remember if he ever had anything to say about them. I’m sure the amount of anti-Reagan sentiment coming out of many punk bands helped drive the punk panic of the 80s… that and Quincy ME!
But I would guess if any President had anything positive to say about punk, it would have been Obama, who would have been the right age for being into punk - but I can’t recall him ever having a punk band to the white house or anything of the like…
So… again, I’m thinking this is the first time any American president has positively referenced a punk band - in this case by coming out to one of their songs…
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Ah, lol. I completely misread. Apologies.
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No worries! I think maybe I worded it unclearly…
but yeah… I’m just wondering if there has ever been this kind of positive reference to a punk band by a president before…
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I know that, back in aught-eight, Anti-Flag were commended in the House by US Rep Jim McDermott.
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Oh! Interesting! I don’t suppose you have a citation for that? Not that I don’t believe you, but more I’d like to see what the circumstances were, etc.
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The record dropped off the House server, but the Archive preserves:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100310105404/http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/sp041008a.shtml
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Mr. Speaker, I want to introduce you to four young men. Justin Sane, Chris Head, Chris Two, and Pat Thetic.
Don’t worry about the hair, it will all change.
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Thanks!
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