About

"The Chosen One" refers to a song by conservative movement musician Natasha Owens praising former President Donald Trump as God's "chosen one" and proposing that his candidacy for President is divinely ordered. Memes about the song making fun of its claims about Trump, as well as posts expressing shock and sadness upon hearing it, spread widely in the summer of 2024 following its release.

Origin

On June 4th, 2024, Natasha Owens posted a music video to a new song titled "The Chosen One" to her YouTube channel. The song (seen below) received over 229,000 views and 2,900 likes in 10 days.^[1]

The song features video clips of Donald Trump talking about himself, including his viral "I Am The Chosen One" moment. The lyrics to the song read:

I’m not saying
He’s something divine
He gets in trouble bigly
Time after time
He’s controversial
But one thing is true
Imperfect people
A perfect God can use
I’m standing with the Chosen one
Ain’t no stopping what the Lord’s begun
He’s only human
Like you and me
Just a chosen one
The chosen one
This great nation
Is under attack
And its real leader has
Arrows in his back
So many greet him
With a Judas kiss
But God gave us a warrior
For such a time as this
Brothers and sisters lay down your stones
There’s only one God and He’s still on the throne
He stands for me, he stands for you
He stands for freedom, he stands for truth
Trump is the chosen one.

Spread

On June 7th, 2024, Donald Trump shared a link to a press release promoting the song on Truth Social (seen below) receiving over 9,300 likes and 2,500 reposts in the course of a week.^[2] The press release linked to in the article included quotes from Owens acknowledging that "I certainly know that President Trump is not the Messiah," and saying she had met him and performed for him at Mar-a-Lago.

Users online posted parodies of the song. For example, on TikTok on June 11th, TikToker @beckberwick (seen below, left) posted the audio paired with images depicting the devilish sea monster Cthulhu, receiving over 148,000 likes and 1.1 million views in three days.^[3] Others, like TikToker @edgykristinahart posted commentary about what they saw as the cult-like nature of Trump supporters (seen below, right). @edgykristinahart received over 221,000 likes and 1.6 million views over the course of one week.^[4]

Other TikTokers posted reaction videos of themselves listening to the song, such as user @blsellers sharing her pastor father's reaction to the song on June 6th (seen below, left), which received over 178,000 likes and 1.8 million views in the course of eight days.^[5] Some TikTok users also posted videos of the song paired with pictures of notorious villains, such as TikToker @cjw_329 (seen below, right) whose June 7th post received over 28,000 likes and over 270,000 views in a week.^[6]

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