Photo: Slayer Instagram
Slayer’s Tom Araya has told fans offended by a photoshopped picture he posted online of Donald Trump rocking out with the band that he “thought it was funny” and “like him or not he is the president”.
Araya posted the picture, in which Trump throws devil horns as the band cheered behind him, on January 20, and received a mixed reaction from fans. So, as Stereogum highlighted, he took to Instagram to criticise offended fans as “snowflakes”.
“I thought it was funny,” he wrote. “I was amazed at the comments about the picture some positive some negative more amazing was in 2 hours there was 10,000 likes ... But I never would have guessed that there where so many snowflakes commenting their distaste for the new president. Like him or not he is the president.”
In the comment section, Araya continued to defend his post as purposefully provocative, writing “thanks [...] to everybody that has commented thanks for insight... this is how fake news gets started, not once did I say that I supported trump... and assuming I speak for the band you are mistaking .. the picture did exactly what I thought it would do... piss some of you off.”
Some commenters were certainly annoyed - @zogar77, responded to a comment from Araya about “Mike Pence turning fruits into vegetables” angrily. “I happen to be gay,” he wrote, “so fuck you and your fruits to vegetables comment. Go crawl up Pence's arse.”
