When US President Donald Trump borrowed imagery from Norwegian pop legends A-ha to help get re-elected, they hit back in the most brilliant fashion. The band’s Magne Furuholmen was not impressed when Trump tweeted a video portraying the President in pencil-drawn animation, similar to the Take On Me video, dancing and hugging the US fl ag. Furuholmen responded with his own video for a song titled This Is Now America in which he sings, “This is Now America, this is now America/ Oh how little we have learnt/ This is now America, this is now America/ Is there no way to turn.” Magne captioned the video for the song, shot by his son with, “The video for our song Take On Me seems to have inspired @realDonaldTrump to make his tie-advert, but then he in turn inspired me to write this.” This Is Now America features on Magne’s latest solo album White Xmas Lies.