Roger Waters has speculated that his political views and vocal opposition to Donald Trump could get him assassinated.
The former Pink Floyd musician has long been one of the President’s most ardent critics, and as far back as 2016, suggested he was “just as dangerous” as Adolf Hitler. (NME report)
Waters, who’d previously called Trump an “arrogant, lying, racist, sexist pig“, said of his rise to office: “It’s a short step to all-out-total fascism, a complete police state. It’s always insidious when it creeps up. It was insidious in Germany in the ’30s. National Trumpism feels a bit less insidious, but it’s just as dangerous.”
“The method for taking over the state and for it becoming a totalitarian police state, it’s always the same – it’s always the identification of the other as the enemy,” Waters continued. “In Trump’s case, it’s the Chinese, the Mexicans and Islam. With Hitler, it was the Jews, the Communists, the Gypsies [as well as] anyone who had a physical deformity [and] homosexuals.”
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More recently, in an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, he went on to lambast the President’s actions in Venezuela and Iran, and argued that he “governs for the benefit of the oligarchs and the very rich”.
“He’s demented,” Waters said (via Louder). “He’s obviously very evil, but now he’s demented as well as being very evil. He was always a real scumbag. Everything he’s ever done is awful in every way. You might think Donald Trump’s a jolly good chap, MAGA, all that crap, none of which he believes.
“All he believes is in lining his pockets and the pockets of Jared Kushner [Trump’s son-in-law], and maybe some of his other children, and his friends Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and all the rest of the oligarchs, who are all in the same cabal.”
This prompted Morgan to ask why Waters continued to live in the America, and, parroting comments he’d made earlier in the conversation, said: “So you live in an undemocratic country run by an evil, demented person… why are you still there?”
