Representative Hank Johnson faces the reaction for anti-Trump parody Jimi Hendrix
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Representative Hank Johnson, D-Georgia, has collected conservatives on Social for an interpretation of “Hey Joe”, which was made popular by Jimi Hendrix and other artists in the 1960s, which he reoriented as Critique by President Donald Trump.
“I hate hurting your ears and everything, but I’m just learning to play the guitar,” he said in a video Posted on X Wednesday, adding that it was inspired by the month of black music to provide political comments via Song.
He noted that he “just learned to play the guitar”, then made a anti-Trump parody of the famous song.
“Hey Trump, where are you going with this pistol in your hand?” Johnson sang. “I’m going on the street to shoot democracy. You know I want to be a king one day.”
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GOP REP. Hank Johnson (Fox News Digital)
Friday afternoon, the video received more than 800 comments on the platform, most of which were criticism of preservatives.
“Talk about deaf messaging!” Media research center Posted on X. “The Democrat representative Hank Johnson publishes a hilarious anti-top song, and you just have to hear that.”
“It would make Jimi Hendrix defended a war on the ground with Iran,” said Josh Holmes, co-host of the ruthless podcast, Posted on X.
“The democratic representative Hank Johnson sings an anti-top song on his guitar about Trump drawing democracy with a firearm to be a king”, the Conservative accounts Libsoftiktok Posted on X. “Yes, it’s real….”
American guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix performs live on stage playing a black fender stratocaster guitar with the Jimi Hendrix experience at the Royal Albert Hall in London on February 24, 1969. (David Redfern / Redferns)
Another user simply joked: “I love the Internet.”
“Heyyy Hank, please adjust this Dang guitar if you can,” wrote another, drawing directly from the lyrics from the song. Hendrix notably played “Hey Joe” at the notorious Woodstock Festival in 1969.
“The Democrats make another of their song song”, Ben Petersen, director of the national war room of the National Committee of the Republican Congress, Posted on X.
“This horribly sound performance is still another waste of our taxes and proof of the uselessness of the Democratic Party”, the conservative influencer Paul A. Szypula Posted on X.
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Representative Henry C. “Hank” Johnson questions the prosecutor General Merrick Garland during a judicial committee of the auditory chamber of surveillance of the Ministry of Justice in Capitol Hill in Washington on October 21, 2021. (Reuters)
“Ok. A few things. If you are going to do a song like this, it is better to adjust your guitar in advance,” said Jeff Charles, editor-in-chief of Townhall, Posted on X. “In addition, covering Jimi Hendrix when you don’t know how to adjust a guitar is cringing teeth. The lyrics are something I could have found when I was five. I am almost embarrassed for him.”
“Hank Johnson – Think that Guam can capsize … also Hank Johnson – thinks he can play the guitar,” said actor Tim Young Posted on X. “He’s more stupid than OC.
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Fox News Digital contacted Johnson’s office to comment.
The video comes as the Democrats continue to experiment with different social media strategies during Trump’s second term and have always faced criticism from the Conservatives for this, including earlier this year, when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other Democrats in the Chamber were castigated online on the Tiktok video “choose your fighter”.
