What goes round comes round. Frank Sinatra’s music was epic in his day and his day is far from done, even though the song in question is 58 years old. “I’ve got my love to keep me warm,” topped the charts this past week, proving that Old Blue Eyes is far from out of the cultural picture. He’s also not out of the political picture, either. Sinatra was quite the trailblazer for civil rights back in the day and that led him into a tiff with Donald Trump. Trump didn’t want people of color living in his buildings and so that was one factor which led Sinatra to ask his manager, “Do you want to tell him to go fuck himself or do you want me to?” The Independent:
Nancy Sinatra took the time to remind her followers Saturday that her father, Frank, “loathed” President Donald Trump.
Responding to a video purporting to show ICE officers harassing Latino construction workers, Nancy, 85, wrote on X: “This is not my father’s America. He would be devastated. Trump is so wrong in so many ways.”
When someone commented, “Your Dad would have loved Trump,” Nancy shot back, “Do some homework before you make a fool of yourself. My dad LOATHED Trump.”
It’s not the first time the “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” singer has reminded fans that her father, the legendary crooner behind hits such as “My Way” and “That’s Life,” was not a fan of Trump.
In 2017, Nancy Sinatra responded to reports that her father’s classic hit “My Way” could be played at Trump’s inauguration. She said on Twitter: “Just remember the first line of the song.” (Which is “And now, the end is near.”)
In 2020, Trump paid tribute to Frank in a speech and suggested his inclusion in a planned monument to American heroes.
The actor and activist Mia Farrow, who was once married to the New Jersey-native, tweeted: “Frank Sinatra would have loathed Donald Trump.”
To which Nancy responded: “He actually did loathe him.”
In 1990, Frank reportedly told Trump to “go f*** himself” after he took issue with the singer’s financial demands, his former manager claimed in his 2017 memoir, The Way It Was: My Life with Frank Sinatra.
Ol’ Blue Eyes was due to perform at the opening of Trump’s Atlantic City casino in 1990 when the magnate was said to have told him his costs were “a little rich.” On hearing the news, Sinatra gave his manager, Elliot Weisman — whose memoir the anecdote appears in — two options: pass his message to Trump or give him his number so he could do it himself.
