Eddie Vedder has revealed that Pearl Jam’s new song “Wreckage” was inspired by former US president Donald Trump.
“Wreckage” appears on Dark Matter, the Seattle band’s twelfth album, which was released on Friday (19 April).
Singer-songwriter Vedder, 59, told The Times that the song represents an appeal for unity.
“There is a guy in the United States who is still saying he didn’t lose an election, and people are reverberating and amplifying that message as if it is true,” said Vedder.
“Trump is desperate. I don’t think there has ever been a candidate more desperate to win, just to keep himself out of prison and to avoid bankruptcy. It is all on the line, and he’s out there playing the victim – at least they’re doing this to me, because if not they would be doing it to you – but you haven’t falsified your tax records. You don’t have classified information in your basement.
Former president Trump is currently on trial in a hush money case in which he is accused of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Elsewhere among the myriad legal issues engulfing the former president, an agreement has been reached over Trump’s $175m bond to appeal the civil fraud trial ruling and the public filing is due of witness statements in the classified documents case.
