John Mellencamp isn’t taking any lyrical cues from President Donald Trump. At his recent show in Holmdel, N.J., the rock icon paused his performance of his pseudo-patriotic anthem “Pink Houses” to poke fun at the president’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
In videos captured at the Saturday (July 25) stop on his Dancing Words Tour, Mellencamp got through the majority of his 1983 hit before stopping after the first few lines of its third verse. “Well, there’s people and more people/ What do they know, know, know?/ Go to work in some high rise/ And vacation down…
