One legal scholar is arguing that Glass' symphony is actually about Trump. Litman notes that Glass' "Lincoln" is "centrally" drawn from Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address of 1838. "Trump, who one suspects has never read the Lyceum speech or listened to a Glass symphony, viewed the gesture, as he invariably does, as a personal affront. It incorporated Lincoln's prescient warning about democratic collapse, a warning that lands with unsettling accuracy on the dangers of Trumpian rule. In the Lyceum, Lincoln was already grappling with the question of how republics fail."