David Bowie was many things, but a Republican—let alone a Donald Trump supporter—was not among them.
And given his gender-bending approach to his art and his fluid sexual identity, Bowie is certainly not the first name you think of when it comes to choosing musicians for right-wing political rallies.
Nevertheless, former Republican President Donald Trump has repeatedly used Bowie's classic hits at his rallies and appearances for years.
Bowie's son, director Duncan Jones, has absolutely had it.
In his father's absence—Bowie passed away in 2016—he is letting the former President know on his behalf, as seen in the tweet below.
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Jones tweeted:
Pretty sure this fu*ker keeps on using my dad’s music just to annoy me personally. (Joke. I’m way below his radar.) "Pretty sure this fucker keeps on using my dad’s music just to annoy me personally. (Joke. I’m way below his radar.)"
Jones' tweet came after Trump's most recent use of Bowie's music when he played the singer's 1974 hit "Rebel Rebel" at his Mar-a-Lago speech following his arraignment on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
\u201cTrump's warmup music tonight includes Bowie's "Rebel Rebel"\u201d— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1680653430
It's an odd choice since, apart from Bowie's own identity that is so offensive to the right wing nowadays, the song is explicitly about a gender-fluid character whose mother is "not sure if you're a boy or a girl."
Its chorus also references the fact that the main character's "face is a mess"—definitely a weird move given how often Trump gets made fun of for his orange face makeup. Seems like maybe he's never listened beyond the word "rebel."
Whatever Trump's reasoning for using Bowie's music, fans of both the rocker and his son loved that Jones took Trump to task for it.
\u201c@ManMadeMoon You're above him in every imaginable way.\u201d— Duncan Jones (@Duncan Jones) 1680657192
\u201c@ManMadeMoon Does he actually ever play Ted Nugent or Kid Rock music as his rallies? He loves the music of people who would hate him.\u201d— Duncan Jones (@Duncan Jones) 1680657192
\u201c@ManMadeMoon Surely he would've detested Donald.\u201d— Duncan Jones (@Duncan Jones) 1680657192
\u201c@ManMadeMoon To be fair, it fits, though: his face is a mess, and he clearly likes hot tramps - which kinda led to the whole courtroom situation he\u2019s in\u2026\ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\u201d— Duncan Jones (@Duncan Jones) 1680657192
\u201c@ManMadeMoon They can be zeroes.\u201d— Duncan Jones (@Duncan Jones) 1680657192
\u201c@ManMadeMoon Pretty clear no one there has paid attention to any lyrics beyond the title.\u201d— Duncan Jones (@Duncan Jones) 1680657192
\u201c@ManMadeMoon it's hilarious how often they'll go "it says rebel rebel, it's perfect!" and completely ignore the entire rest of the song which doesn't represent them and would typically offend them.\u201d— Duncan Jones (@Duncan Jones) 1680657192
\u201c@ManMadeMoon This is just like when politicians use Born in the USA. They like the catchy chorus on a surface level and pay no attention to what the song's about.\u201d— Duncan Jones (@Duncan Jones) 1680657192
\u201c@ManMadeMoon A while back he was using YMCA at his political rallies which was so incongruous that I thought I was having some kind of psychotic break.\u201d— Duncan Jones (@Duncan Jones) 1680657192
Jones' "Rebel Rebel"-inspired drag of Trump wasn't the only trolling tweet he's posted about the former President in recent days.
\u201c\ud83d\ude02\u201d— Duncan Jones (@Duncan Jones) 1680716604
He also quote-tweeted a meme showing an imagined rendering of Trump's fingerprinting from his arraignment this week, in which every fingerprint appeared to be a tiny dot of ink, a reference to Trump's notoriously small hands. Classic.