Reporters set Twitter abuzz when New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman noted that the White House was playing the song “Edelweiss,” suggesting…
Reporters set Twitter abuzz when New York Times White House Correspondent Maggie Haberman noted that the White House was playing the song “Edelweiss,” suggesting there was significance to the song that the White House did not understand.
“Does…anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song?” Haberman tweeted Thursday morning.
Users quickly commented that Haberman seemed to think Trump was playing a Nazi song in the White House. The song is from Richard Rodgers’ and Oscar Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music” and is played by Captain von Trapp right before the family flees the Nazi occupation of Austria.
“It was both a symbol and an instrument of the von Trapps’ fleeing of the Nazis,” The Atlantic reported, “An embodiment of their belief that the ‘homeland’ was something that could, like a flower that blooms in winter, survive the harshness of fascist rule.
