The breakout country singer whose hit song “Rich Men North of Richmond” worked its way into the first Republican presidential primary debate dropped a bomb Friday on the people who have been promoting it as a conservative anthem.
“It was funny seeing my song … at the presidential debate,” Oliver Anthony said in a video he made sitting in the cab of his truck that he posted on his official YouTube channel. “Because I wrote that song about those people.”
Anthony delivered the video broadside after the first GOP debate opened Wednesday with a shoutout to Anthony’s song, a folksy lament topping the charts about the frustrations of a working-class person who toils for low wages
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