Was the music for Saturday’s military parade in Washington, D.C. covertly programmed by the “No Kings” movement?

That’s the question some were asking on social media after the event, spearheaded by President Donald J. Trump, which featured the repeated playing of Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s classic “Fortunate Son” — a song that virtually the entire world knows by now was written during the Vietnam era as a slam against wealthy draft dodgers. The assumption being made by at least a few tweeters was that this had to be some kind of deliberate trolling of the president by someone on the music selection team who just has it in for him. Because if you were going to make a top 10 list of songs that Trump should not want to have played at any of his events — but most of all not at a military-themed ceremony — “Fortunate Son” would certainly be No. 1.

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In 2020, in fact, no less a figure than the song’s author, John Fogerty (a military veteran), directly made the connection between Trump and the rich kids who got out of the draft that he was writing about back in the day. “It seems like he is probably the Fortunate Son,” Fogerty said at the time. There could hardly be a worse insult.

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So it’s tantalizing to entertain the thought that someone from the left infiltrated the ranks of the president’s music department to include the Creedence song as part of a parade in which active-duty members of the armed forces marched past the figure who has sometimes been chided as “President Bone Spurs,” in honor of the medical deferment that got........

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