RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and PROPHETS OF RAGE bassist Tim Commerford recently gave an interview to TeamRock in which he offered up his reaction to the stunning news that Donald Trump won the 2016 U.S. presidential election over Hillary Clinton. "I'm still digesting it," he said. "I'm still gripped on the television screen, and I haven't even put it all into perspective yet. I'm as shocked as most people in this country are. I've been talking to my sons today, and it's scary times — it's mind-boggling how many people voted for him, and just how fucked up the whole system is. It's messed up and it's sad. "I hear so many people right now, like, 'Oh, you know, he's going to change the country,' and blah blah blah, and all this bullshit. But the fact of the matter is the reason people voted for him is the 18% decrease in taxes. That's it, that's what it's all about — it's all about money. People want more money, and that's the reason why things like this happen. That's why it went down this way, and that's why we have a very scary situation here. I was saying this when they were running — and I've heard other people say it too — that he's like Adolf Hitler. He is Adolf Hitler. He's fucking Adolf Hitler. And He. Is. Scary. All of us should be really scared, and all of us should be prepared for the worst." He continued: "Another facet of his election is racism. We had an African American President, and there's a lot of racist folks in America who were pissed about that. So, they went out and voted for the white guy. They're not going to vote for the woman, and they don't care about Latinos; they're racist. So, we have a money-driven, racist, white, fucking world that we live in, that puts money-driven, white, racist Presidents in office. That's the way it is. It's racism — it's white people. I believe that white people were the reason why Trump was elected President, because white people didn't want an African American, or a woman. It was white people who put him in office. "I fear for immigrants. I fear for Muslims. I fear for my children. The scary thing is, when you have children you tell them ‘Hey, look, don't be a bully. Don't say fucked up things about women, don't be a racist, don't do these things'. And here we have a person who's doing these things that our children get to see. And you just hope 'Oh, he's going to get rejected at the polls', and that's going to drive that point home to my children that you just can't be like that — but then that guy gets elected. And it makes it super hard to explain that to your children, and then your children go on, and become adults, and they have a different philosophy engrained in them. So that's really my biggest fear — what this is going to do to the mentality of future adults." Trump shocked the political establishment and the world by becoming the 45th president in one of the biggest upsets in U.S. political history. He won with 289 electoral votes compared to 218 for Hillary Clinton. 270 were needed to win. While many rock artists had been against Trump, artists like STAIND's Aaron Lewis, Kid Rock and FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's Zoltan Bathory had thrown their support behind the real estate magnate, who has no previous governing experience.
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