Pussy Riot Depicts a Horrifyingly NSFW America Under President Trump
Russian punk rockers Pussy Riot have a new music video out, in which, they imagine what exactly will happen to the world if Donald Trump becomes the president.
“Make America Great Again” portrays an America where everything from political dissidence to women not having big enough breasts is now illegal under a Trump administration. Anyone ideologically opposed to the Trump doctrine is taken into custody by Gestapo-like agents, who torture them and use hot pokers to brand them with messages like “Fat Pig,” “Outsider” and “She Made an Abortion.”
WARNING: NOT SAFE FOR WORK
The song is a follow-up one of the band’s other recent music videos, where they slammed Trump over his “grab ’em by the pussy” remarks with Billy Bush in 2005. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the band’s co-founders, spoke about the videos with TIME, where she explained that the band’s goal was to envision what would happen if Trump’s word were put into action.
“The point was to show that Trump’s words are not just words. Those words lead to violence, which is why they were burned into my body.”
Pussy Riot achieved international recognition years ago when they were targeted by Vladimir Putin for criticizing his regime. The band has also been critical of Trump for months now, band member Maria Alekhina having said that a vote for Trump is a vote for the Americanized version of the Russian president.
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