Roger Waters has said that fears his political views and strong opposition to US President Donald Trump could get him killed.
The musician fears that he could be assassinated, having been one of Trump's biggest critics, even suggesting that he is "just as dangerous" as Adolf Hitler, as well as branding him an "arrogant, lying, sexist pig".
Waters said this on Trump's rise to the Oval Office: “It’s a short step to all-out-total fascism, a complete police state. It’s always insidious when it creeps up. It was insidious in Germany in the ’30s. National Trumpism feels a bit less insidious, but it’s just as dangerous".
He continued: “The method for taking over the state and for it becoming a totalitarian police state, it’s always the same – it’s always the identification of the other as the enemy. In Trump’s case, it’s the Chinese, the Mexicans and Islam. With Hitler, it was the Jews, the Communists, the Gypsies [as well as] anyone who had a physical deformity [and] homosexuals".
Now, speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Roger Waters lambasted the US President even further over his recent actions in Venezuela and Iran, arguing that he “governs for the benefit of the oligarchs and the very rich”.
“He’s demented,” Waters said (via Louder). “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 might think Donald Trump’s a jolly good chap, MAGA, all that crap, none of which he believes".
“All he believes is in lining his pockets and the pockets of Jared Kushner [Trump’s son-in-law], 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".
At this point, Morgan asked why does Waters continue to live in America, despite his hatred for Donald Trump: “So you live in an undemocratic country run by an evil, demented person… why are you still there?”.
Waters hinted that he may move to Portugal or “some of the islands in the Caribbean”, adding: “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".
Elaborating further, Waters referred to the fatal shooting of prize winning poet, Renee Nicole Good, who was shot dead by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this month, which led to huge protests across the US. The mother of three was killed during a large scale immigration enforcement operation.
Good, a volunteer in a network of "neighbouring patrols" kept track of ICE operations in Minneapolis, and was shot dead in her car by a federal agent.
This shooting has been defended by Mr Trump, who claimed the ICE agent was acting in self defence.
“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. We live in a really dangerous, totally effed up world", Waters said.
