In a brand new interview with The Fader. Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor called the president a “fucking moron” and anyone who voted for him a “f*cking moron, too.” The interview was in promotion of the band’s highly successful new album We Are Not Your Kind.
The comments came about after Taylor was asked about the comments he made regarding the current US president during a 2017 interview with Larry King. In the original interview with King, the metal frontman said, “I want to give him a chance, but he keeps shooting himself in the foot.” This time around Taylor had a less passive response.
“I could not believe that people would vote for a fucking moron like him,” Taylor said in the new Fader interview. “That’s what insults me the most. You can paint him as racist, or egotistical, or a tyrant, or all of this shit: He’s a moron, and the people who fucking voted for him? Fucking morons, too!”
He added, “It doesn’t matter why they voted for him, whether they are racist, or they want money. They’ve done more to set us back even further globally than anything I’ve ever seen in my fucking lifetime. And that’s coming from somebody who wrote a whole fucking song about George W. Bush.”
The singer continued, “This guy, it’s going to take us 20 years to fucking undo half the shit that he’s done. Honestly, I come at it from a fan standpoint. Most of our fans are of color, are from different countries, speak different fucking languages, love different people. I don’t want my fucking fans getting killed. I don’t want my kids getting killed. And the worst thing is that it has emboldened fucking racism.”
Corey Taylor also said that he believes the status quo is on the “precipice of an upheaval that we haven’t seen since fucking ’68” and that it’s “fucking scary.”
Corey Taylor is currently in plans to release a 2021 solo album.
