Eminem vs. Trump in a new rap song
Detroit-born rapper Eminem unleashed a torrent of criticism at President Donald Trump in a new rap he debuted at the televised BET awards on Tuesday night. The four-minute freestyle “The Storm” delivers more blows than even the most scathing talking head could on a cable news hit, calling Trump a “racist grandpa” and accusing him of distracting people from real issues by picking fights on Twitter, threatening nuclear war and siding with the KKK.
Sample scathing lyric: “This is his form of distraction/ Plus, he gets an enormous reaction/ When he attacks the NFL, so we focus on that/ Instead of talking about Puerto Rico or gun reform for Nevada/ All of these horrible tragedies, and he’s bored and would rather cause a Twitter storm with the Packers.”
Eminem, who has previously shown himself no fan of Trump’s with his 2016 rap “Campaign Speech,” tied that to the president’s criticism of Sen. John McCain: “I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump said of the former POW in the Vietnam War.
“He says you’re spitting in the face of vets who fought for us/ Unless you’re a POW who’s tortured/ ’Cause to him you’re zero ’cause he don’t like his war heroes captured,” Eminem added.