Recently I read, oh wait where did I read it oh yeah of course it was on the band's Wikipedia page, about the production of the song:
The song is an emotionally charged commentary on the Bitburg controversy from earlier that year, in which U.S. president Ronald Reagan had paid a state visit to a German World War II cemetery and gave a speech where numerous Waffen-SS soldiers were buried. Lyrically, the song was a departure from the usual Ramones topics. Joey Ramone, a Jewish man, explained that the president "sort of shit on everybody."
"We'd watched Reagan going to visit the SS cemetery on TV and were disgusted. We're all good Americans, but Reagan's thing was like forgive and forget. How can you forget six million people being gassed and roasted?"
Aaaaaaaand here's the connection to Trump:
Before departing for Germany, Reagan ignited more controversy when he expressed his belief that the soldiers buried at Bitburg "were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps."
32 years before the Tiki torches broke out in Charlottesville, Reagan beat Trump to the "good people on both sides" notion.
Fuck Reagan. Fuck Trump. And Thank God for The Goddam Ramones.
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