This week's republican debate, or any debate for that matter, most certainly won't have former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters behind presidential candidate Donald Trump. The fearlessly outspoken bassist talked to Rolling Stone about his soon-to-be-released concert film, Roger Waters: The Wall, and also discussed his opinions towards the GOP businessman, calling him "the epitome of anything that might be considered bad" and "entrepreneurship gone wrong."
Waters is the first to admit that Trump's antics are entertaining but only to a certain degree.
"I have [laughed] except it's not funny that he's as popular as he is," he said. "His ideas [are] not outlandish at all. It's American exceptionalism gone crazy and delivered under the umbrella of absolute ignorance. He is pig-ignorant and he always was and he always will be. He lives in the illusion that he's admirable in some way. And obviously for somebody like me, he stands for everything that is not admirable in American society."
Trump has been plastering his campaign across the United States with the phrase "Let's Make America Great Again," an idea Waters fully disagrees with, seeing as how many mistakes in history have proven against old ways, Radio.com reports.
"It's the worst possible slogan anybody could ever come up with," he said. "If the Founding Fathers hadn't been so up their own *sses, they might have come up with a system that fell somewhere between republican democracy that was going to work and that had proper checks and balances to prevent it disintegrating into what it has become, which is a country for sale to the highest bidder with the Supreme Court at the top of it, who's appointed by the highest bidder eventually."
The 72-year-old musician attributes the level of Trump's popularity to his businessman persona and constant media exposure, stating that it's completely understandable as to why people believe his "nonsense."
"It's important to the 1 percent to propagate and disseminate these theories and these system beliefs in order to retain control. It's organized theft on a giant level, a huge scale, and is extremely efficient and well-organized," he continued. Detailing Trump's and Scott Walker's hopes to build Mexican and Canadians walls only further irks Waters who recalls a time where our country slaughtered innocent Native Americans and thrived off of the immigrant population. "It's called osmosis. Human beings will travel," he said.
Touching back upon Waters' impending concert film, the musician has hope that viewers will look to it as a bonding experience. "If people see this movie, what I hope is that when they've seen it, they may look at one another and even come out and go, 'You know what? We are a community and we are many,'" he said. "'There are a lot of us.'"
