This Day in United States History 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
On September 26, 2011, major U.S. newspaper headlines included: Trump Meets With Romney in New York - with the New York Times writing: Mitt Romney followed the well-trod path of other Republican presidential hopefuls on Monday with a trip to New York to kiss the ring of the real estate mogul and television personality Donald Trump.
The meeting between the two men, set up at Mr. Romney’s request, took place at 2 p.m. Monday at Trump Towers on Fifth Avenue, and was the first time the two men chatted face-to-face since Mr. Romney declared his candidacy several months ago.
Mr. Romney managed to evade the press and neither man came out after the meeting to comment on what was discussed. But that obscured the fact that Mr. Trump, who flirted with a presidential run earlier this year and still likes to hint that he’s keeping his options open, hasn’t already had some things to say about Mr. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts.
In an interview in April with Meghan McCain, the daughter of Senator John McCain of Arizona, for The Daily Beast, Mr. Trump said that Mr. Romney was “going to lose.”
“He doesn’t resonate, you know, or he would have won last time, in all fairness to your father!” he told Ms. McCain. Mr. Trump said he watched Mr. Romney give a speech, “and it was all these little trivial statements.” (Donald Trump knew a loser when he saw one - and Mitt Romney was a loser. Romney couldn't inspire a dog enough for the dog to like him.)
On This Date In The Music World 🎶🎵🎶
Jason Aldean was riding a wave of commercial success with his CD, My Kinda Party. It was his fourth CD and highlighted a change to his musical style. His song, Dirt Road Anthem was on the CD and became a crossover success. It was the first song to crack two million digital downloads by a male country singer. Dirt Road Anthem would reach #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and #7 on the Hot 100 chart.
Enjoy a recent Saturday afternoon ride with me. This was prior to the "HEAT DOME" arriving and included a detour down Chapmansboro Road to Sycamore Creek Recreation Area. Dirt Road Anthem always hits me in the FEELZ. Having grown up in a rural area of flyover country, I can assure you me and my buddies drove down lots of dirt roads - with "...an ice cold beer sitting in the console." Actually, as old as I am, pickup trucks did not have center consoles then. 🤪😂 Volume UP!!!! ⬆️🇺🇸😎✌️
Dirt Road Anthem ~ Jason Aldean 🎶🎶🎶
Yeah, I'm chillin' on a dirt road
Laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones
Smoke rollin' out the window
An ice-cold beer sittin' in the console
Memory lane up in the headlights
It's got me reminiscing on them good times
I'm turnin' off a real life drive and that's right
I'm hittin' easy street on mud tires
Back in the day, Pott's farm was the place to go
Load the truck up, hit the dirt road
Jump the barbed wire, spread the word
Light the bonfire, then call the girls
The king in the can and the Marlboro man
Jack'n'Jim were a few good men
Where ya learned how to kiss and cuss and fight too
Better watch out for the boys in blue
And all this small town he said, she said
Ain't it funny how rumors spread
Like I know something y'all don't know
Man that talk is gettin' old
Ya better mind your business, man, watch your mouth
Before I have to knock that loud mouth out
I'm tired of talkin', man, y'all ain't listenin'
Them old dirt roads is what y'all missin'
I'm chillin' on a dirt road
Laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones
Smoke rollin' out the window
An ice-cold beer sittin' in the console
Memory lane up in the headlights
It's got me reminiscing on them good times
I'm turnin' off a real life drive and that's right
I'm hittin' easy street on mud tires
I sit back and think about them good old days
The way we were raised, and our southern ways
And we like cornbread, and biscuits
And if it's broke round here we fix it
I can take y'all where ya need to go
Down to my hood, back in them woods
We do it different around here, that's right
But we sure do it good, and we do it all night
See, if you really wanna know how it feels
To get off the road with trucks and four wheels
Jump on in, and man, tell your friends
We'll raise some hell where the black top ends
I'm chillin' on a dirt road
Laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones
Smoke rollin' out the window
An ice-cold beer sittin' in the console
Memory lane up in the headlights
It's got me reminiscing on them good times
I'm turnin' off a real life drive and that's right
I'm hittin' easy street on mud tires
That's right
Yeah, I'm chillin' on a dirt road
Laid back swervin' like I'm George Jones
Smoke rollin' out the window
An ice-cold beer sittin' in the console
Memory lane up in the headlights
It's got me reminiscing on them good times
I'm turning off of real life, drivin' that's right
I'm hittin' easy street on mud tires
That's right 🎶🎶🎶