Rage Against The Machine's "Sleep Now in the Fire" was released in 1999, on Rage's The Battle of Los Angeles album. The politically charged song addresses social issues in the typical Rage Against The Machine fashion:
So raise your fists and march around
Just don't take what you need
I'll jail and bury those committed
And smother the rest in greed!
It's been almost two decades since "Sleep Now in the Fire," but a Reddit user recently pointed out something funny interesting: the video features a "Donald Trump for President" sign. The Michael Moore-directed video was filmed on Wall Street, and it actually caused the doors of the New York Stock Exchange to be closed when hundreds of people came to witness the production. Rage Against The Machine band members and Moore attempted to walk into the NYSE, but police physically prevented them from doing so. "Michael basically gave us one directorial instruction, 'No matter what happens, don't stop playing,'" RATM's Tom Morello said.
At the time, the Donald Trump sign was a prop to help illustrate Rage Against The Machine's perspective on American greed—little did they know, it ended up predicting our present reality. The sign appears around the 1:04 mark in the video. Watch below.
