Rick Wilson, the co-founder of the left-wing Lincoln Project campaign group, said the track sounded like “a wild hog and a sack of rusty cans being thrown into an industrial wood chipper”.
Another online commentator said: “Every note is a violation of the Geneva Convention”.
Jaymes, a 22-year-old artist from Kentucky, said she was recording the song when Trump asked to join her to sing.
“Lara heard the song Hero at Circle House Studios while I was there recording,” she told Florida Weekly. ”She connected with me, and we collaborated on the song and now have become good friends.”
Trump, 41, formerly Lara Yunaska, is a graduate of North Carolina State University. She spent three years doing odd jobs – personal trainer, bartender and waitress – before moving to New York to attend the French Culinary Institute.
She became a pastry chef before switching careers and working as a producer for the CBS television program Inside Edition. She met the former president’s son Eric in a nightclub in 2008.
Lara Trump has since become a fixture on Donald Trump campaign teams alongside her husband. In February she was announced as the Republican National Convention’s co-chairman.
Last year, she released a cover of Tom Petty’s song I Won’t Back Down, which she claimed had been “shadowbanned” by iTunes.
She performed the song live on air in an interview with Sky News Australia, singing the lyrics: “You can stand me up at the gates of hell but I won’t back down”.
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Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show, later commented: “Well I’ve never been to the gates of hell, but now I’m pretty sure I know what they sound like.”
The Telegraph, London