"Donald Trump" | ||||
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Single by Mac Miller | ||||
from the album Best Day Ever | ||||
Released | February 8, 2011 | |||
Format | Digital download | |||
Recorded | 2010 | |||
Genre | Hip hop | |||
Length | 2:45 | |||
Label | Rostrum | |||
Songwriter(s) | ||||
Producer(s) | SAP | |||
Mac Miller singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Donald Trump" on YouTube |
"Donald Trump" is a song by American rapper/singer Mac Miller, and the only song released as an official single from his mixtape Best Day Ever. The melody, which is played throughout the song, is taken from "Vesuvius" by Sufjan Stevens. The music video to the song was uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2011, while the single was released digitally on May 17, 2011. "Donald Trump" is also incorrectly included as a bonus track on the track list of some versions of Mac Miller's debut album Blue Slide Park. Miller himself confirmed that the song does not feature on the album. The song was dedicated to the American business magnate Donald Trump, who, five years after the song's release, was elected as the 45th President of the United States. During Trump's 2016 campaign, the song regained popularity, hitting #28 on the iTunes Charts on November 9, 2016, the day after he was elected president. However Mac Miller has personally stated in an interview that he was not a supporter of Trump.
The money-inspired hip-hop song refers to business magnate and current U.S. President Donald Trump, particularly Mac Miller's ambitions to become wealthy and successful like him ("Take over the world when I'm on my Donald Trump shit/Look at all this money, ain't that some shit?").
The many references to Trump in lyrics have not gone unnoticed by the billionaire. When the song became a Billboard hit, Trump released a YouTube video congratulating the rapper: