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Trump’s rise to presidency has not only drawn a blanket of darkness over the land of prosperity, but has infuriated people far and wide.
Former Dead Kennedy’s frontman Jello Biafra has been an active left-wing activist for nearly 30 years, and he is one of many left baffled by Trump’s election win.
Jello Biafra is one of many that is wary over Trump and his presidential power. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, he explains, "He just worships himself. He admitted he doesn't read books and he mainly just reads articles about himself. ... I'm just hoping against hope he freaks out so bad about having to sell his business empire and having his own name owned by somebody else all over the world that he refuses to take the oath of office at all. But then we [have] Paul Ryan and Co. voting in president Mike Pence, the most rabidly anti-gay and anti-choice politician of any high public office.”
He goes on to explain, "I would say that well over 75 percent of the people that voted for Trump did not vote for what's about to happen. ... What we're looking at here is Jim Crow 2.0, and they're going to be even more hardcore about that in the 2018 election, to keep anybody with a conscience from being able to vote. Look at who the new Attorney General is going to be, the same guy who in the Eighties said he thought the people in the Ku Klux Klan were all right "until I saw some of them smoked pot."
Having run for mayor of San Francisco in 1979, Biafra is more wary about getting involved in politics now Trump is in charge. "I don't plan too much in advance because I never know what weird and wild and interesting adventures may fall into my lap. I didn't really plan to run for mayor of San Francisco. Dead Kennedys' original drummer dared me when I was folded in the back of his Volkswagen on the way to a Pere Ubu show. So then I told people at the show I was running for mayor [and] wrote my platform on a napkin with a felt-tip pen four feet away from where Ubu were playing. People were so into the idea I couldn't back out of it.”
Trump has run into a lot of issues regarding racism already, resulting in a lack of co-operation when finding artists to perform at his inauguration.
Elsewhere, former X-Factor contestant Rebecca Ferguson agreed to perform only if she could sing Billie Holliday’s “Strange Fruit”. The track is an attack on racism in America.
Gaining a mixed response, it seems Ferguson’s song choice might revoke Trump’s invitation to his inauguration.
