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Trump slammed for using CCR's 'Fortunate Son' at Michigan rally, Internet left speechless by the 'sheer irony'

'Fortunate Son' is an anti-establishment song of defiance and blue-collar pride, both anti-Washington and against the Vietnam War.

President Donald Trump keeps making headlines with what he says and what he DOES NOT say, but this time POTUS is making the news for playing Creedence Clearwater Revival's iconic protest song 'Fortunate Son' as he deplaned at his rally in Michigan.

According to Song Facts, 'Fortunate Son' is an anti-establishment song of defiance and blue-collar pride, both anti-Washington and against the Vietnam War. Singers John Fogerty and Doug Clifford both enlisted in the Army Reserves in 1966 and were discharged in 1968 after serving their military commitments. "The song speaks more to the unfairness of class than war itself," Fogerty said. "It's the old saying about rich men making war and poor men having to fight them."

As soon as people heard the song the Internet started reacting to it, as one user commented, "Trump deplaned at his rally tonight to Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son" - which is a protest song about how working-class guys got drafted to Vietnam while the sons of the wealthy got draft deferments. You cannot make this up."

One user who fell short of words said, "I mean, the absolute irony of playing CCR's "Fortunate Son" for a rich privileged white guy who got out of the VIETNAM WAR by faking a medical condition with his daddy's money... I got nothing, man." While some called Trump a fortunate son and said, "Trump is playing Fortunate Son” at his rally in Michigan... the song is about a kid sent to Vietnam because he had no money or contacts. Trumps millionaire daddy bought him five deferments. Stunning."

Some said Trump was being trolled: "John Fogerty wrote 'Fortunate Son' about rich kids getting deferments from serving in Vietnam. Whoever picked this music is trolling Trump - he is just too dumb to know it." And some just simply called it, UNREAL, "Trump plays the song 'Fortunate Son' as he exits the plane at his rally... ...except "Fortunate Son" is a protest song written by a Vietnam-era veteran against the children of privilege who evaded the draft. Just like Trump evaded the draft 5 times by faking an injury. Unreal."

Another netizen shared the lyrics of the song and said, "Holy f**k! Trump just deplaned in Michigan to the song 'Fortunate Son' Can't make this crap up. Someone just trolled trump so marvelously."

"That's hilarious! Perfect troll, playing "Fortunate Son" as Lord Donald arrives for his big Michigan revival tonight. The call's coming from inside the White House, Donnie. Someone there hates you," said another user

During a 2015 interview with The Voice, John Fogerty said, "The thoughts behind this song -- it was a lot of anger. So it was the Vietnam War going on... Now I was drafted and they're making me fight, and no one has actually defined why. So this was all boiling inside of me and I sat down on the edge of my bed and out came "It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son!" You know, it took about 20 minutes to write the song."

According to Fogerty's 2015 memoir, he was thinking about David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who married Julie Nixon, the daughter of then-President-elect Richard Nixon in 1968, when he wrote 'Fortunate Son', in his memoir, he wrote, "'Fortunate Son' wasn't really inspired by any one event. Julie Nixon was dating David Eisenhower. You'd hear about the son of this senator or that congressman who was given a deferment from the military or a choice position in the military. They seemed privileged and whether they liked it or not, these people were symbolic in the sense that they weren't being touched by what their parents were doing. They weren't being affected like the rest of us."