Nickelbackis having the last laugh when it comes to PresidentDonald Trump‘s attempt to use the Canadian band’s music to attack former Vice PresidentJoe Biden.
One week after the presidentshared a videoon Twitter soundtracked to a snippet of Nickelback’s 2005 hit “Photograph,” the band saw a 569 percent increase in their downloads, according toBillboard, who cited Nielsen Music.
The song was streamed 772,000 times between Oct. 2-3, a 38 percent increase from its 558,000 streams between Sept. 30 and Oct. 1,Billboardreported. These streaming services include YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.
“Photograph,” which was the lead single from Nickelback’s fifth studio album,All the Right Reasons,peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 100 in October 2005.
Trump’s version of the music video clip was altered to show Nickelback’s lead singer, Chad Kroeger, holding a photo of Biden, 76, and his sonHunter Bidenwith one of Hunter’s business partners, which Trump has tried to use against the Bidens.
This summer, Trump lobbied Ukraine’s president to investigate the Bidens, which critics have called an untenable abuse of presidential power.
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Many social media users dined out on the strange meal that was Trump’s Nickelback tweet — an intersection of a meme-loving president with a very meme’d band.
“In the end, it was Trump revealing that he’s a Nickelback fan that got him impeached and removed from office,” journalist Yashar Alijoked on Twitter.
Music news website Consequence of Soundadded on Facebook,“We are truly living the dumbest timeline.”
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The president’s anti-Biden video is the latest — and perhaps the most unusual — tactic in his ongoing push to stick Biden, hisleading challenger for re-election, with unsubstantiated claims of “corruption.”
“If we allow a president to get away with shredding the U.S. Constitution, that will last forever,” Biden has previously said.
Trump, in turn, decried the “witch hunt” against him.
source: people.com
