Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten Defends Donald Trump, Says He’s Not A Racist

When it comes to musicians and President Donald Trump, the two usually don’t mix, but Sex Pistols lead singer John Lydon is singing a different tune. While artists such as Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar have all blasted Trump, Lydon is now defending him.

During an appearance on an episode of “Good Morning Britain” with hosts Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan, Lydon, better known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, called Trump a “possible friend” and claimed he wasn’t racist while also slamming the “left-wing media” of the United States.

Lydon, who is now a U.S. citizen, said, “What I dislike is the left-wing media in America are trying to smear the bloke as a racist, and that’s completely not true. There’s many, many problems with him as a human being, but he’s not that, and there just might be a chance something good will come out of that situation, because he terrifies politicians. And this is joy to behold.”

When Morgan went on to call Trump the “absolutely archetypal anti-establishment character in politics,” Lydon agreed, going as far as saying, “Dare I say, a possible friend.”

While some may joke that conservatism is the new punk rock, Lydon doesn’t like the analogy. In an interview with the New York Times, he said there were better analogies than that. “Is Donald the new Sex Pistols? I don’t know, and I don’t think you need to tie things together that way. It’s too easy. That’s lazy intellectualism at work.”

Given Lydon’s praise of the commander-in-chief, we shouldn’t expect any tweets from Trump slamming the Sex Pistols’ frontman like he did with Snoop Dogg. Following the release of the rapper’s “Lavender” music video where he pointed a fake gun at a parody of Trump, the president called him out on Twitter.