Roger Waters claims his criticism of “evil” Donald Trump could get him killed
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has hit out at “evil” Donald Trump, and claimed the president could get him killed for his criticism.
Waters, who is a citizen of the United States and has lived there for more than 20 years, has been a vocal critic of the president during his two tenures in the White House.
Now, during a new interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Waters slammed Trump for his recent interventions in Venezuela and Iran, claiming “the evil Western empire is trying to take over the whole world using war as its main way of doing that.”
On Trump, Waters said, “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 can disagree, you might think Donald Trump’s a jolly good chap, MAGA, all that crap, none of which he believes.”
Waters’ scathing takedown continued, “All he believes is in lining his pockets and the pockets of Jared Kushner, 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.”
Upon being asked why he still lives in America under Trump’s ruling, Waters said, “I don’t think the American people are evil”, but conceded, “It may be that my residency in the United States may not last for the rest of my life. It may well be that Donald and his cabal will make that decision for me because he is pretty erratic.”
Then, in reference to the death of Renee Nicole Good at the hands of ICE official Jonathan Ross on January 7th in Minnesota, Waters claimed, “He could send masked men around to shoot me in the head through my car window like he does to people who disagree with him.”
Waters, who also said he’d consider moving back to the UK, to Portugal or the Caribbean, added that “we live in a really dangerous, totally effed up world” and “to find somewhere good to live is difficult”.
Additionally, in the same interview, Waters refused to backtrack on his previous comments about disliking Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath weeks after the rock icon’s death in July, which led to a backlash from the late singer’s family.
Waters doubled down on his prior remarks, stating, “I was honest, I said I didn’t like Black Sabbath. I’ve listened to some of it since, and the music is perfectly kind of acceptable; it was all the kind of histrionics. I don’t like people who bite the heads off bats. I just don’t, I think it’s disgusting.”
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