Old Man Trump

Woody Guthrie in 1943

"Old Man Trump" is a song with lyrics written by American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie in 1954. Although the lyrics were written in 1954, it was never recorded by Guthrie. The song describes what Guthrie felt were the racist housing practices and discriminatory rental policies of his landlord, Fred Trump, father of former president Donald Trump. In January 2016, Will Kaufman, a Guthrie scholar and professor of American literature and culture at the University of Central Lancashire, unearthed the handwritten lyrics while conducting research at the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[1]

  1. ^ Kaufman, Will. "Woody Guthrie, 'Old Man Trump' and a real estate empire's racist foundations". The Conversation.