Kirk Hammett: “REJECT the term Alt-Right, just another sneaky euphemism for white supremacy.”
Kirk Hammett is fired up.
After expressing his political sentiments in measured tones in the weeks following the election of Donald Trump, the Metallica guitarist vowed that “if anything happens that I’m not okay with, I’m going to be super vocal about it for the first time in my life.” And now he’s making good on that promise.
Hammett went on a Twitter tirade on Friday night, the day of Trump’s inauguration, comparing the president’s speech to 1930s Germany, calling for the rejection of “lies from the people within the new administration” and railing against those who deny climate change. He ended the series of Tweets with a call to reject the term “alt-right,” presumably sparked by the video of white supremacist Richard Spencer getting socked in the face.
Here are a few of Hammett’s more potent Tweets:
REJECT the term Alt-Right, just another sneaky euphemism for white supremacy, call it what it is!
Don't let them hide behind dishonesty!
— Kirk Hammett (@KirkHammett) January 21, 2017
This administration is thinking that it can just ignore CLIMATE CHANGE.
People, it now comes down to us to make up the difference..
— Kirk Hammett (@KirkHammett) January 21, 2017
The only people who deny CLIMATE CHANGE are the same people who stand to lose from renewable energy
— Kirk Hammett (@KirkHammett) January 21, 2017
America never stopped being great!!
America is one of the wealthiest and most prosperous nations on the planet.
I'm proud of America!!
— Kirk Hammett (@KirkHammett) January 21, 2017
REJECT THE LIES FROM THE PEOPLE IN THE NEW ADMINISTRATON, THEY ARE THERE ONLY TO FEED THEIR OWN THIRST FOR GREED AND POWER
— Kirk Hammett (@KirkHammett) January 21, 2017
Trump's Inaugural Address
and his asking us to put America first sounds, to me, familiar to…— Kirk Hammett (@KirkHammett) January 21, 2017
…what was said in speeches going around Germany in the 1930's …and later Russia in the 1940's …
— Kirk Hammett (@KirkHammett) January 21, 2017
I LOVE THIS NEW VERSION OF KIRK HAMMETT!
The usually demure guitarist whose request to keep guitar solos on St Anger was infamously shot down — captured in posterity in Some Kind of Monster — has suddenly developed a voice. And he’s so doing so in spite of Metallica’s unofficial policy of keeping quiet on political issues.
Keep it coming, Kirk: we need you right now. Metal needs you, the voice of reason needs you and America needs you. Bring it!
