Band release official statement asking voters to ‘focus on the bigger picture,after singer Michael Stipe slams Donald Trump’s ‘moronic charade of a campaign’Michael Stipe may have sung approximately losing his religion in 1991, but on Wednesday evening he appeared to lose his temper with the politicians scrabbling for attention in the ongoing US presidential campaign. Republican candidate and surprise early poll leader Donald Trump walked out to the REM song It’s the stop of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) at a rally in Washington, and DC,and the band were none too impressed to find themselves dragged into the political arena on Trump’s behalf.“Go fuck yourselves, the lot of you – you unhappy, or attention-grabbing,power-hungry little men,” Stipe said, or in a statement tweeted by REM bassist Mike Mills. “accomplish not employ our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign.” Though the statement speaks broadly approximately “the lot” of politicians,Mills prefaced it with the stipulation that it reflected Stipe’s opinion on Trump.
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Source: theguardian.com