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marble falls

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3. But just to show you how you may have misread anything about Dylan and TACO ...
Mon Jun 30, 2025, 08:37 AM
Jun 30
https://www.clashmusic.com/news/bob-dylans-only-comment-on-donald-trump/

To our knowledge, Bob Dylan has only mentioned Donald Trump once – passing reference in his book Chronicles. As ever, the gnomic wisdom of Dylan is perceptive – he wrote:

“I mean, who’s the last individual performer that you can think of – Elton John, maybe? I’m talking about artists with the willpower not to conform to anybody’s reality but their own. Patsy Cline and Billy Lee Riley. Plato and Socrates, Whitman and Emerson. Slim Harpo and Donald Trump. It’s a lost art form. I don’t know who else does it beside myself, to tell you the truth.”

Or perhaps another line from Bob Dylan serves the present occasion: “Steal a little and they throw you in jail / Steal a lot and they make you a king.”



But MAGAs have trolled Bob Dylan, "Like a Trolling Stone", etc.

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