{"id":2064486,"date":"2026-07-27T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2064486"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:23:10","slug":"john-mellencamp-slams-trumps-stupid-f-king-idea-to-rename-gulf-of-mexico-while-singing-a-rock-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2064486","title":{"rendered":"John Mellencamp Slams Trump\u2019s \u2018Stupid F\u2013king Idea\u2019 to Rename Gulf of Mexico While Singing a Rock Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tJohn Mellencamp isn\u2019t 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 \u201cPink Houses\u201d to poke fun at the president\u2019s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.<\/p>\n

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\n\tIn 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. \u201cWell, there\u2019s people and more people\/ What do they know, know, know?\/ Go to work in some high rise\/ And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico,\u201d he sang before saying, \u201cWait a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tWith his band still playing behind him, the Indiana native continued sarcastically, \u201cThe Gulf of Mexico? Is that right? It\u2019s not the Gulf of America? What a stupid f\u2013king idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMellencamp then dove right back into \u201cPink Houses\u201d \u2014 which reached its peak at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984 \u2014 as the crowd cheered him on.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe rocker\u2019s dig comes in reference to the twice-impeached POTUS\u2019 executive order last year to replace \u201cMexico\u201d with \u201cAmerica\u201d in the gulf\u2019s official title, calling on all federal agencies to recognize it as such. It was a polarizing move, especially considering that \u201cThe Gulf of Mexico\u201d is a name that dates back to the 1550s. <\/p>\n

\n\tMellencamp\u2019s next show will be on Wednesday (July 29) in Bristow, Va., with dates scheduled through the end of September. Billed as a greatest hits tour, Dancing Words showcases some of the most popular selections in his discography, which features 29 Hot 100 entries \u2014 including four-week No. 1 smash \u201cJack & Diane\u201d \u2014 and 24 Billboard 200-charting albums.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/P1055GTH-e1785183491632.jpg?w=1024″] John Mellencamp isn\u2019t 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 \u201cPink Houses\u201d to poke fun at the president\u2019s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Explore Donald Trump John […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-2064486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2064486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}