Alice Cooper addresses Donald Trump’s election victory: “It got so ‘woke’ with the Biden people”
Alice Cooper has discussed Donald Trump’s election victory and claimed it resulted from Joe Biden’s administration being “so ‘woke'”.
Cooper is not a political artist and typically avoids discussing the subject. However, the shock rock singer does have a history with the presidential elections, having run for office at every election since 1972 as part of a long-running joke.
His first bid to run for president was to promote his single ‘Elected’, and Cooper has since re-released it every four years while outlining his humorous intentions to become the leader of the free world.
Now, in a new interview with The Times, Cooper gave his views on the current state of American politics and shared his memories of playing golf with Trump before he entered the Oval Office.
Cooper previously alleged that Trump cheats on the golf course, but in the new interview, the singer says this isn’t a bad trait, claiming, “If any president who plays golf says he doesn’t cheat, don’t vote for them. I’m not talking about in competition; if you’re playing an everyday game among friends for bragging rights, then everyone cheats, right? But Trump was good. He can play.”
The veteran rocker then played down the scale of their friendship, saying, “We got along OK,” before offering his opinion on the reasoning for Trump’s victory in 2024. He said: “Look, America has been having a slow-motion nervous breakdown for a while now. It got so ‘woke’ with the Biden people, even they thought it was crazy.”
Cooper continued: “If a guy says to a coworker, ‘I like your new dress,’ that means he now gets fired? That’s crazy. It got so over the top that whoever ran against the Democrats was going to win. America got sick of the stupidness and all I can say is, in a shooting war, you don’t want a poodle; you want a pitbull.”
Although he’s largely been non-political throughout his career, Cooper claimed transgenderism is “a fad” in 2023 and said it has become “so absurd, that it’s gone now to the point of absurdity”.
Meanwhile, his new album, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper, is set for release on July 24th, and this week, he will begin his UK arena tour, which includes a date at The O2 in London on July 25th.
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