Paul McCartney appeared on the latest episode of “The Rest Is Entertainment” podcast (via The Daily Beast ) and touched on Trump’s America when discussing the power of music to bring divided audiences together. “Particularly these days, you do something like ‘Hey Jude’ and you see this whole audience singing together,“ McCartney said of playing the iconic Beatles song in 2026. ”I mean, in Trump’s America, and the Republicans and Democrats all at each other’s throats — when we do that song, they’re not. They’re all loving it, and it’s like, wow, this is pretty amazing.” McCartney added, “You know, suddenly this room has forgotten all of that, and it’s not, you know, going to argue with each other, they’re just going to sing together. So those kinds of things, I think, are valuable.” Popular on Variety The Beatles legend played two intimate shows in Los Angeles in March to great fanfare.…