SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian strongly criticized former U.S. president Donald Trump, labeling him as “an absolute maniac” who is “only interested in himself”.
In a new interview with Metal Hammer, Serj: “Donald Trump is an absolute maniac. He’s only interested in himself, his own ego, his own everything. He doesn’t even care about other Republicans, it just happened to be the party that he took. He’s a showman, he’s almost unreal, but he is very dangerous.”
“I’m not saying that I’m a big fan of Joe Biden and what the Democrats have done either,” he continued.
“I just heard a figure that there are more independents in America than ever in American history, because both parties have been completely missing the point of what’s going on.
“There are other candidates that have a lot more potential like RFK Jr., for example,” referencing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the scion of the famed Kennedy family, who initially sought the Democratic Party’s nomination for president but dropped that effort in October and re-entered the race for the White House as an independent, “but these two parties have a stranglehold on the system, as in [the U.K.] Parliament.”
Returning back to Trump, Tankian added: “But I would say that the propensity of Trump, liking authoritarianism, enjoying authoritarianism, would be dangerous for the world, because he would be on the side of people that think that way, whether it’s [Russian president Vladimir] Putin, or [Recep Tayyip] Erdoğan in Turkey, or [Ilham] Aliyev in Azerbaijan. Plus he has hotels in those places, he’s got business dealings: again, it’s all about himself.
“To me, in a perfect world, someone like RFK would take over, and not be a Democrat nor a Republican. But if the choice is between Joe Biden and Trump, there is no choice. Trump is very dangerous, very dangerous. I consider Trump an extremist, he’s a right-wing extremist, he’s not a center-of-the-road Republican or Democrat. And to see a country, half of a country, whatever the numbers are, gravitate around an extremist in a country like the United States is incredibly disconcerting. It’s a threat to democracy, it’s a threat to the world. I can’t think of a world where Trump takes over again, I really can’t.”
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