A number of musical artists shared their views on Donald Trump in the days before and after a 2005 video surfaced in which the U.S. presidential candidate bragged about being able to sexually assault women.
The band One Republic summed it up in a tweet.
Canadian singer Jann Arden and pop duo Tegan and Sara both weighed in on the lewd comments.
During his Oct. 8 performance at the Desert Trip festival in California, Canadian singer Neil Young mentioned the following night’s headliner, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.
“Come back tomorrow night,” Young told the crowd. “Roger is gonna build a wall and make Mexico great again.”
After playing his song “Welfare Mothers,” Young said: “That’s Donald Trump’s new campaign song. You heard it here first, folks.”
During an on-stage conversation at the New Yorker Festival on Oct. 7, Bruce Springsteen was asked about Trump.
“When he was just a big sort of bloviating New York billionaire, he could be highly entertaining and funny,” Springsteen added. “But he’s not funny as a presidential candidate.”
The Boss said Trump has brought the alt-right movement into the mainstream. “I don’t believe he’s going to go away. He’s not going to go gently into the good night,” he said.
“So I’m a little afraid of his lasting effect on the country.”
Springsteen acknowledged that Trump has a lot of support in the kinds of places he sings about.
“There’s this sea of people out there who are waiting and hoping and looking for something that’s going to bring some meaning back into their lives," he said.
"So it’s not a surprise someone comes along and says, ‘You want your jobs back? I’ll bring them back. You’re uncomfortable with the browning of America? I’m going to build a wall to keep all those folks out.’
“You want to hear these kinds of solutions to your problems. Unfortunately, they’re fallacious — it’s a con job.”
It was during a similar conversation at the Red Bull Music Academy in Montreal that Arcade Fire’s Win Butler called Trump a "complete f—ing nightmare and a clown and a joke.”
Butler urged Americans to register so they can vote against Trump. “You don’t have to hang out with Hillary. But, Jesus Christ, vote for Hillary Clinton … The consequences could not be more dire.”
Singer Carly Simon allowed her classic song “You’re So Vain” to be used in an anti-Trump video from a group called the Patriotic Artists and Creatives.
Her spokesperson told CNN that Simon “is alarmed at the prospect of Donald Trump reaching the White House and has joined other creative voices in making a definitive statement.”
Rock duo The White Stripes decided to sell T-shirts that read “Icky Trump” — a play on their song “Icky Thump.”
Irish rockers U2 made their feelings known on Oct. 5 during a performance of their song “Bullet the Blue Sky” at Dreamfest in California.
For nearly two minutes, Bono had a mock conversation with Trump that ended with the singer shouting through a bullhorn: “You wanna make America great again? You'll make America hate again. You wanna make America great again, or you wanna make America hate again? Hate again?”
On social media, artists had plenty to say about Trump's remarks.
Alex Karpranos of Franz Ferdinand compared Trump to British celebrity Jimmy Savile, who got away with decades of sexual offences prior to his death in 2011 at age 84.
Rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy fame took aim at Trump’s followers.
Meanwhile, singer Kelly Clarkson decided to have a little fun and encourage Trump supporters to cast their ballots on Nov. 9 — the day after the U.S. election.
Here’s a look at some more tweets from music stars in the hours after Trump’s lewd comments about women went public.
