Disturbing: Nobel laureate Paul Krugman thought it was 'not exactly appropriate' for the band to play this song at Joe Biden's inauguration

As you can imagine, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times fixture Paul Krugman is very excited about President Joe Biden.

American Kamalage.

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021

Manhattan is cheering.

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021

Surprised myself. Watching the Bidens and Harris/Emhoff entering the Capitol, I teared up. America may make it.

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021

That was like a vision of America as it should be — decent, truthful, committed to justice, unified in diversity. Eloquence at every point. Reality will set in, as it must. But wow.

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021

But there was one aspect of the inauguration that he found somewhat disturbing:

Band playing God Save the King? Not exactly appropriate.

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021

Yeah.

Wait, what?

My God, is this a real tweet?

— Doctor of Education-Elect (@belize042) January 20, 2021

Or is it some kind of bit?

https://twitter.com/ECMcLaughlin/status/1351910139381444610

HRH Queen Elizabeth, the United Kingdom, @nytimes, and the citizens of the US all shaking their heads at this for various reasons. 🤦‍♀️

— Heather McCoy (@HeatherMcCoy27) January 20, 2021

They were playing "America" which has the same melody. I remember it from grade schoolhttps://t.co/Ju0vstMW0R

— ptdecker (@ptdecker) January 20, 2021

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Well, to be fair, grade school was, like, 200 years ago for Paul Krugman.

Aha. Forgot there are Americanized lyrics. I guess I've spent too much time Over There over the years.

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 20, 2021

Is “Over There” code for “Up My Own Backside”? Because Krugman’s definitely spent a lot of time there.

https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1351957363943682050

That's what I thought at first too.

— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) January 20, 2021

https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1351957767968477184

Well, the joke’s on you, Becket. Paul Krugman’s not nearly self-aware enough to do a gag like that on purpose.

My dude out here not knowing about My Country 'Tis of Thee. https://t.co/xWIhH3KieV

— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) January 20, 2021

***The Star-Spangled Banner plays***

Paul Krugman: Band playing a British bar song? Not exactly appropriate.

— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) January 20, 2021

Snort.