[Verse 1]
Forty-seven trees, that's the number Trump wants planted in the park
One for every year of every president — no, one for his mark
The White House grounds becoming something like a numbered shrine
Forty-seven oaks or elms, whatever fits the design
Meanwhile fact-checkers are sharpening their pencils overtime
PBS is counting up the four-oh-one-k claims line by line
Did your retirement account actually grow the way he says?
The numbers tell a complicated story through the haze
[Chorus]
June twenty-nine, read the headline, weigh the fact
Every story's got a front side and a back
From the trees they plant to the deals made overseas
Nothing's ever simple as it seems — check the receipts
[Verse 2]
Trump spoke at Faith and Freedom, fired up the faithful crowd
Kennedy Center had a different energy — Bill Maher, loud
The White House pushed back hard but couldn't stop that Twain Prize night
Maher walked up, grabbed the trophy, held it squarely in the spotlight
The NRDC is watching every rollback, every rule
Cataloguing what gets cut from the environmental pool
The Guardian says the myth we built was borrowed, bruised, and sold
American exceptionalism cracking at the fold
[Chorus]
June twenty-nine, read the headline, weigh the fact
Every story's got a front side and a back
From the trees they plant to the deals made overseas
Nothing's ever simple as it seems — check the receipts
[Verse 3]
Down on the southern border, numbers shift like desert sand
Courts are redefining who gets refuge, who gets banned
A family waits in Juárez, paperwork in hand
Lawyers filing motions nobody seems to understand
Back home the talking heads are spinning every angle dry
The think tanks publishing reports that no one reads — but try
Because buried in the footnotes is the part they never air
The data underneath the drama, somebody put it there
[Bridge]
Iran deal signed, but Israel's counting up the cost
Council on Foreign Relations says that point got lost
Nobody from the White House stepped up to acknowledge it
The silence in diplomacy can swallow what they omit
And somewhere in a courtroom, a judge just cleared the way
For a UFC fight inside the White House — only in today
[Chorus]
June twenty-nine, read the headline, weigh the fact
Every story's got a front side and a back
From the trees they plant to the deals made overseas
Nothing's ever simple as it seems — check the receipts
[Outro]
That's your Monday, late June, two thousand twenty-six
Politics and culture thrown into the same old mix
Stay curious, keep questioning, don't swallow headlines whole
Every story's got a body — go and find its soul
[Chorus]
June twenty-nine, read the headline, weigh the fact
Every story's got a front side and a back
From the trees they plant to the deals made overseas
Nothing's ever simple as it seems — check the receipts