More than a decade ago, Vice published a handy guide to all the reasons the Beach Boys' Mike Love is kind of an asshole (titled Mike Love Is Kind of an Asshole). The list includes fun facts such as Love donating to Tipper Gore during her campaign to censor music, firing Brian Wilson (his own cousin) from the Beach Boys, and suing Wilson for songwriting credits on tunes he contributed very little to when he didn't even write the songs on his own (reportedly very shitty) solo album. Pet Sounds, which Rolling Stone recently named the greatest album of all-time, was apparently named after Love's comment, "who is gonna hear this shit? The ears of a dog?" Needless to say, the man is not good vibrations.

And that was years before red MAGA hats even existed for him to wear, so you can imagine the list is due for an update. The first amendment might as well be the self-serving eulogy Love spoke at Wilson's funeral this year. A new Rolling Stone profile of the only other surviving Beach Boy, Al Jardine, finds Jardine quoted as saying, "Mike wanted everybody to know that he wrote every single word of ‘Good Vibrations'… I didn’t feel the compassion, let’s put it that way. Mike’s got some serious megalomania problems." When Jardine himself spoke immediately following Love at Wilson's funeral, he started out by saying, “Mike, I’ve written some songs with Brian myself. We wrote one called ‘Surfin’ Down The Swanee River.’ It just wasn’t as big as ‘Good Vibrations.'” Or as Jardine put it in Rolling Stone, “I was focusing on Brian, and Mike was more focused on Mike. I think that is what it boiled down to.”

Despite the fact this all checks out, Love's rep has responded to Jardine with the following statement:

“That’s not true. Mike’s focus has always been on uplifting audiences around the world through the music he helped create with his bandmates and cousin Brian. His commitment has been to preserve and share this great American songbook while providing resources to fellow Beach Boys shareholders, including Al Jardine. In addition, Mike and The Beach Boys have dedicated significant time and support to nonprofit organizations using their platform to give back to communities in need.”

Wilson and Jardine famously disavowed Mike Love performing at Trump fundraisers under the Beach Boys name, and Jardine is currently touring a pretty killer set with Wilson's backing band, including most of their weirdest album, 1977's synth-heavy The Beach Boys Love You, in case you're wondering whom to support here.