Old Man Trump

You may know that Woody Guthrie despised Donald Trump's father for his racist real estate practices and wrote bitterly about them in some unpublished work.

Before he lived in a Trump-owned apartment in Brooklyn, however, Guthrie spent many years between the wars in Los Angeles. He wrote songs about those whose voices too often went unheard: the working people, the Dust Bowl refugees, the poor, the homeless, and the people of Skid Row.

The rest of the story:
Woody Guthrie and Skid Row in Los Angeles by Darryl Holter (KCET)

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