Roger Waters on Donald Trump: 'He Is Pig-Ignorant'

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

With a GOP debate scheduled for Wednesday, Roger Waters won't be throwing his support behind Donald Trump. The outspoken former Pink Floyd member and architect behind The Wall tells Rolling Stone during a soon-to-be-published, in-depth interview about his upcoming concert film, Roger Waters The Wall,­­ that the businessman and Republican presidential candidate is "the epitome of anything that might be considered bad" and "entrepreneurship gone wrong."

Waters admits he has been amused by Trump's ideas, but only to a point. "I have [laughed] except it's not funny that he's as popular as he is," Waters says. "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 campaigning across the country with the slogan "Let's Make America Great Again," an idea Waters takes exception to. "'It's the worst possible slogan anybody could ever come up with," he says. "It's silly and disgusting as well, unless they wanted to hark back to the potential. If the Founding Fathers hadn't been so up their own asses, 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."

Waters cited the businessman's media exposure as the reason Trump is so popular. "The mainstream media in this country tend only to report a very limited section of ideas and views," he adds. "So it's perfectly understandable why people would believe Donald Trump's nonsense, because 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."

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. Arnold Ziffel Was A Quite Lot Smarter

So, Trump's got that to live down to, as well.

Just thought of something: Really does anyone think he would have ever become a successful real estate tycoon if he wasn't born with golden shoes on and a silverspoon in his mouth?

[Warpy]

2. No, he'd be a small time neighborhood hustler with a rap sheet

as long as he is tall.

It's a lot of fun looking at the rich and thinking about what they'd bee if they were born down in the mud with the rest of us.

[jmowreader]

6. Trump reminds me of the kinds of guys who repossess cars

[Warpy]

8. Or steal them for chop shops

that another family member owns.

[lame54]

3. From One Wall Builder To Another...

Except that this one is a genius

[L. Coyote]

4. Enough already with insulting pigs. Trump is Republican ignorant.

Some of my best friends are pigs ....

[hifiguy]

5. Roger has always been an exceedingly smart man.

And a good lefty.

[0rganism]

7. big man, pig man

ha ha, charade you are

[awoke_in_2003]

10. Forgot how great that song is...

but I've always wondered who Mary is (Mary you're nearly a treat)

[KG]

11. 'The song's three verses each presents a different "pig", the identity of whom

as only the third verse clearly identifies its subject as morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, whom he describes as a "house proud town mouse" who has to "keep it all on the inside'' ' (wiki)

[awoke_in_2003]

13. Cool, thanks. nt

[ArnoldLayne]

9. Roger Waters is right as usual. To bad he wasn't born

in the US he would be a great President.

[Dont call me Shirley]

12. Or as Waters sings "Big man, pig man, haha charade you are".

[DisgustipatedinCA]

14. I've always loved you, Roger Waters. Now I love you more. nt