(Photo credit: Eminem photo by Sebastian Vital)
(Photo credit: Eminem photo by Sebastian Vital)
Eminem has not been shy about letting on to his disdain for President Donald Trump.
In October, his anti-Trump video aired at the BET Hip Hop Awards. In December, he tells New York Magazine: "I hope he gets impeached. I’d be there for that."
Now, in an interview with Dan Rys of Billboard, he talks about Trump and where he was on election day in November 2016, " Watching the TV in fucking disbelief. I was in my basement, on the phone back and forth with friends like, 'He’s going to fucking win.'”
He suspected Trump might win:
"I called it just from the rallies he was having when he first started running. Because just watching the impact he has, they were fanatics. There is something to be said about the person who really felt like he might do something for them -- and he just fucking duped everybody. I know that Hillary had her flaws, but you know what? Anything would have been better [than Trump]. A fucking turd would have been better as a president. When I [put out “The Storm”], I felt that everybody who was with him at that point doesn't like my music anyway.
"I get the comparison with the non-political-correctness, but other than that, we’re polar opposites. He made these people feel like he was really going to do something for them. It's just so fucking disgusting how divisive his language is, the rhetoric, the Charlottesville shit, just watching it going, "I can't believe he's saying this." When he was talking about John McCain, I thought he was done. You're fucking with military veterans, you're talking about a military war hero who was captured and tortured. It just didn't matter. It doesn't matter. And that's some scary shit to me."
