Mar. 4, 2026 A common refrain during the first Trump presidency was "With so many people upset, where are the protest songs?" By no means did musicians remain totally silent, there were a handful of scathing and biting songs like " Tiny Hands " by Fiona Apple, " Million Dollar Loan " by Death Cab for Cutie, and the incendiary " Nobody Speak " by DJ Shadow and Run the Jewels, but nowhere near the creative outpouring of previous generations. The Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam movements in the late '50s and '60s spawned dozens of classic protest anthems, some as pleading as Marvin Gaye 's "What's Goin' On" and few as eviscerating as "Mississippi Goddam" by Nina Simone . Even the sneering punks of the anti-Thatcher/Reagan '80s gave us underground anthems from D.R.I.…