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Controversy follows rapper Azealia Banks wherever she goes, however this time she says she needs she’d accomplished issues in another way. The 33-year-old Harlem, N.Y. native admits that she voted for President Donald Trump, however even she admits it’s a vote gone mistaken.
“Okay I believe it’s time everybody who voted for Trump admit that we made a f-cking mess,” Banks tweeted lately. “Like that is an absolute catastrophe.”
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Like many different Trump voters, Banks says that the nation’s present path shouldn’t be what she envisioned when she solid her vote for the forty seventh president. Nevertheless it’s not the primary time Banks has gone on the report along with her public assist of Trump. In 2016, she mentioned she was voting for him though she didn’t essentially assume he was the most effective candidate. Again then she mentioned, regardless of her vote, that Trump was a “piece of sh-t,” together with different politicians who make false guarantees to the Black group.
“Simply because Hilary Clinton (sic) and Bernie Sanders say good issues about minorities doesn’t imply they really imply them. Politicians have been saying “good” issues about coloured people and we’ve nonetheless been getting f-cked. I solely belief this nation to be what it’s: stuffed with sh-t. takes sh-t to know sh-t so we might as effectively, put a chunk of sh-t within the White Home.”
It seems even Banks didn’t notice simply how a lot harm the person she voted for —twice— might do in such a short while.
Within the first 90 days of Trump’s second presidency, he’s fired hundreds of federal staff, a few of whom stay in limbo as they’ve sued to maintain their jobs. Authorities companies, from Social Safety to the IRS to the CDC, which give important companies, have been gutted.
Trump’s advisor’ Elon Musk, the world’s richest particular person, has used his DOGE (Division of Authorities Effectivity) to achieve entry to beforehand safe PII (Personally Identifiable Info) to achieve entry to details about thousands and thousands of Individuals and a tough line on immigration has led to mass deportations and authorized residents of the U.S. picked up off the streets and deported. Oh, and the pinnacle of the Division of Protection, Pete Hegseth, communicated the small print of an assault on Yemen by way of a bunch chat on the encrypted app Sign that included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. After which, reportedly, despatched one other group textual content utilizing the identical app with particulars of the raid that included his spouse and brother.
“He’s so petty and vindictive rn,” Banks added in a follow-up put up about Trump. “Tbh, rightfully so, however not when the wellbeing and livelihood of billions of individuals – rattling close to your entire world lay in ur fingers. Somebody must get him a cute little lorazepam rx and a excessive grade ashwaganda complement as a result of it will probably’t occur like this. No person on earth is afraid of loopy outdated white man anger. Previous white males have to reinvent the archetype as a result of it’s too predictable. Like China is simply DUNKING on everybody proper now.”
After checking just a few salty MAGAs, Banks moved on to different subjects, together with Girl Gaga’s racist fanbase, the Kendrick/Drake beef, dwelling in Sweden (on account of American racism and gun violence) the struggles of being an unbiased artist, why she received’t make a report witih Nicki Minaj, and that the recognition of The 1975 is extra about frontman Matt Healy (who she’s had a beef with) and his relationship life than any music they’ve made.
Regardless of the challenges of being an indie artist, Banks introduced earlier this yr that new music is on the horizon. She’ll be performing this summer time on the Maiden Voyage Music Competition in London together with different genre-fluid artists.
See how social media is reacting to her admission beneath.
