"I wasn’t sure about 'Wild Thing' at first. On the demo I told the sound engineer to turn off the lights in the studio..."

"... and I just sat on a stool and sang it like a blues guy would. My brother Jon was visiting, and I played the song for him later the same night, and he predicted it would be a smash hit."

Said Chip Taylor, quoted in "Chip Taylor, Writer of ‘Wild Thing’ and Other Classic Rock Hits, Dies at 86/Mr. Taylor, the younger brother of the actor Jon Voight, found success as a songwriter for the likes of Janis Joplin and Juice Newton" (NYT).

"I guess Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade!"

I guess Justin T doesn’t much like my making him pay up on NATO or Trade! https://t.co/sndS7YvIGR

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 27, 2019

ADDED: Speaking of Trump and movies... I wondered why Jon Voight is trending on Twitter today. It's this:

In God We Trust pic.twitter.com/xbMCTDhgp4

— Jon Voight (@jonvoight) December 19, 2019

AND: That Voight clip was from a few days ago, but Voight is boosted today by this Trump tweet, which just says Voight is "fantastic" in a new TV role and in a bunch of old movies.

UPDATE: Apparently, the edit to "Home Alone 2" was made years ago, before Trump became President. So: false alarm.

This is totally effective to anyone with a right-wing orientation, but if you're a person of the left, it's spooky propaganda.

That's my assessment, from my cruelly neutral perspective:

Thank you so much @JonVoight!pic.twitter.com/7aj57QH57l

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 11, 2019

I don't know why I — of all people — can stand back and observe. I experienced physical chills at 0:23 — "I am honored to call him President Trump" — even as I know, intellectually, it makes no sense. From there on, I looked at that face in front of a brick wall — The Wall!! — and thought this is exactly what propaganda is. I admired Voight's delivery and the weird but simple text, even as I thought about how bizarre it is that human beings drink this up. Once it's over, I wonder, what the hell was that?! What did I just hear? It slipped in below the conscious level. I had to go back to find the place where I'd felt the chill, and I'm struck by its emptiness. What is the rest of it? Something about God. God... Trump... God... ???!!!

"I am calling to all of you freedom-loving Americans to come once again to Washington D.C. to gather on the Capitol steps on Saturday, at 12 o’clock noon."

Writes Jon Voight. Are you going? Are you getting on that Greyhound bus around now and traveling overnight to arrive in D.C. in the morning? Ah! You are! Send me messages and photographs... and then get on the bus Saturday night and sleep your way back home to me.

The last part of that applies only to Meade. As for everyone else, yeah, go ahead and get on that bus/plane or in that car if that's what you think you should do.

Jon Voight is not happy with Barack Obama.

And some folks are not very happy with Jon Voight.