Lady Gaga sent a hidden message to Trump at her Super Bowl performance

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In the past, the 30-year-old artist has never been afraid to get political. So fans were understandably disappointed when she didn't use her platform to deliver a strong, politically charged statement.

But Gaga may have offered a slight dig at the Trump administration’s suspended travel ban and plans to build a wall along the southern US-Mexico border.

Gaga opened her 12-minute set with "God Bless America" and performed Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land"—which can be interpreted as a sneak diss against the administration. The song was originally written by Guthrie as a response to Berlin’s wall and the original lyrics include the line: "There was abig high wall there that tried to stop me.”

Interestingly enough, Guthrie wrote about his contempt for the president’s father, Fred Trump, who was his landlord in the 1950s. Guthrie suggested that Trump was a bigot who turned away potential black tenants in Brooklyn because of their race.

“He thought that Fred Trump was one who stirs up racial hate, and implicitly profits from it,” Will Kaufman, a literature professor at the University of Central Lancashire, told the New York Times last year.

In the 1970s, several years after Guthrie’s death, the Justice Department sued Trump over discrimination against blacks. He eventually settled with the department without admitting guilt.

As rumor has it, the NFL reportedly told Gaga not to make any political statements that could be seen as divisive. Of course, representatives for the league denied this and promised to give her artistic freedom throughout her set. The show comes amidst hundreds of thousands of Americans lining in the streets to protest the new president via nationwide Women’s Marches and emergency rallies against his travel restrictions.

Before the show, Gaga simply promised to use her performance to promote inclusion.

“I believe in a passion for inclusion. I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love, and compassion, and kindness,” she told reporters at a news conference last week.

 

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Funny how his supporters didn't get it. 

 

 

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She subtly shaded Trump & his stans but they are too stupid to realize 

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1 minute ago, lego said:

 

In the past, the 30-year-old artist has never been afraid to get political. So fans were understandably disappointed when she didn't use her platform to deliver a strong, politically charged statement.

But Gaga may have offered a slight dig at the Trump administration’s suspended travel ban and plans to build a wall along the southern US-Mexico border.

Gaga opened her 12-minute set with "God Bless America" and performed Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land"—which can be interpreted as a sneak diss against the administration. The song was originally written by Guthrie as a response to Berlin’s wall and the original lyrics include the line: "There was abig high wall there that tried to stop me.”

Interestingly enough, Guthrie wrote about his contempt for the president’s father, Fred Trump, who was his landlord in the 1950s. Guthrie suggested that Trump was a bigot who turned away potential black tenants in Brooklyn because of their race.

“He thought that Fred Trump was one who stirs up racial hate, and implicitly profits from it,” Will Kaufman, a literature professor at the University of Central Lancashire, told the New York Times last year.

In the 1970s, several years after Guthrie’s death, the Justice Department sued Trump over discrimination against blacks. He eventually settled with the department without admitting guilt.

As rumor has it, the NFL reportedly told Gaga not to make any political statements that could be seen as divisive. Of course, representatives for the league denied this and promised to give her artistic freedom throughout her set. The show comes amidst hundreds of thousands of Americans lining in the streets to protest the new president via nationwide Women’s Marches and emergency rallies against his travel restrictions.

Before the show, Gaga simply promised to use her performance to promote inclusion.

“I believe in a passion for inclusion. I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love, and compassion, and kindness,” she told reporters at a news conference last week.

 

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Funny how his supporters didn't get it. 

 

 

Well you're talking about Trump supporters...

They'll never get it.

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Alternative Fact™: Gaga didn't go political  

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I wasn't sure if it was intentional, but I hope it was.

As bland and subtle as the sponsoring sugar-free Pepsi, though.

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Why was this moved from News? 

 

 

 

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What a QUEEN!! I knew she would do a subtle statement beforehand... and she indeed did! And as a non-american I did not know that original line of the song!

But we know all know that Trumpets would only get a statement if she would have literally name-dropped Trump, no other way.

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Didn't she also hug a Mexican while singing "stay"?

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Correct me if Im wrong

 

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Just now, redhoodieslime said:

Didn't she also hug a Mexican while singing "stay"?

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Correct me if Im wrong

 

 

Someone said Hispanic, I don't want to start guessing girl's ethnicity, but she was poc. It was intentional probably.  

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32 minutes ago, lego said:

 

Someone said Hispanic, I don't want to start guessing girl's ethnicity, but she was poc. It was intentional probably.  

I thought of this too, it was such a lovely moment

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53 minutes ago, PennyroyalTea said:

What a QUEEN!! I knew she would do a subtle statement beforehand... and she indeed did! And as a non-american I did not know that original line of the song!

But we know all know that Trumpets would only get a statement if she would have literally name-dropped Trump, no other way.

That's the thing with gaga. She's tiny but when she has a point to make you WILL ****ing hear her. 

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To be honest, I never knew This Land Is You Land was a political charged statement, I always thought it was an American anthem.