Trump's meeting with Putin has just changed the history of music as we know it
Though President Donald Trump would — or wouldn't — disagree, he isn't exactly known for his way with words, often speaking English as if it's his second language that he happened to learn just last week.
This was evident during his joint press conference with Russia President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, and even more so during his firefighting conference after returning back to the country.
The presser with Putin saw him catch flak from all quarters for refusing to condemn Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential elections, with singer/songwriter Richard Marx piling on to the misery with a scathing, sarcastic tweet that quickly began trending across social media.
The 54-year-old, whose hits include the likes of 'Endless Summer Nights,' 'At the Beginning,' and 'Now and Forever,' wittily responded to Trump's rapid backtracking and claim that he had misspoken at the conference after the summit.
At the time, the US president had disregarded the numerous findings of American intelligence agencies which showed that Russia had interfered in the elections, saying that he couldn't see any reason "why it would be Russia," and stating he thought so because Putin had "strongly denied" involvement when asked. The claim had media, as well as politicians in the country in a frenzy, with even some of Trump's most stringent supporters appalled at his statements.
As the backlash over his refusal to condemn Russia grew, Trump came out to claim he had misspoken. "I said the word ‘would’ instead of ‘wouldn’t,'" he said on Tuesday. "The sentence should have been, 'I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia.'"
Marx seemed to have had enough of the former reality TV star's constant mental gymnastics, modifying a line from his hit 'Right Here Waiting' to mock the backtracking. "I misspoke. I meant to say I 'wouldn't be right here waiting for you," he tweeted.
The tweet quickly spread through the interwebs, garnering over 150,000 likes and 44,000 retweets. And of course, the trend soon caught on, with many others on Twitterati offering up their own versions of what other famous singers, taking a restrospective cue from Trump, may have meant to say in the lyrics of their songs.
