He never says him by name — not in the songs and not in this interview.
But there can be no mistaking who Bryan Adams is taking aim at in his recent musical output, a string of Canadian protest songs like “51st State” and his latest, the plaintive “Lake Ontario.”
Adams has Donald Trump on the brain.
Both of those songs appear on How’s It Goin’ , a Canadian concept album which drops Nov. 6 and features a dozen new tracks about Adams’ homeland.
It’s the 17th studio album for the rocker — whose catalog of indestructible hits includes “Summer of ’69,” “Run to You” and “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” — and easily his most politically pointed, having found a new muse in the deterioration of relations between his homeland and the United States.
Since returning to the White House, Trump has placed punishing tariffs on Canadian goods, repeatedly threatened to make Canada the “51st state” and even ordered Lake Ontario renamed “Lake America” in U.S.…