‘Ain’t Got No Home’: Why Woody Guthrie Despised Donald Trump’s Father
By Ari Shapiro‘Ain’t Got No Home’: Why Woody Guthrie Despised Donald Trump’s Father
By Ari Shapiro
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Will Kaufman, a professor of American literature and culture at the University of Central Lancashire, says he has discovered unpublished lyrics by Woody Guthrie, in which the folk singer denounced Fred Trump, Donald’s father. The elder Trump happened to be Guthrie’s landlord in the early 1950s.
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