Roger Waters Claims Opposing Trump Could Get Him Killed: ‘He Could Send Masked Men Around To Shoot Me In The Head’

Roger Waters has never been subtle about politics, but his latest comments have gone to a darker place.

According to Louder Sound The former Pink Floyd frontman has suggested his outspoken opposition to US President Donald Trump could put his life at risk, claiming the political climate in the United States has become dangerous enough that he could be assassinated for speaking out.

Waters made the remarks during an interview with British broadcaster Piers Morgan on Friday, January 16th where he attacked Trump’s leadership and accused him of serving the interests of the ultra wealthy.

“He’s demented,” Waters says.

“He’s obviously very evil, but now he’s demented as well as being very evil. He was always a real scumbag. Everything he’s ever done is awful in every way. You might think Donald Trump’s a jolly good chap, MAGA, all that crap, none of which he believes. All he believes is in lining his pockets and the pockets of Jared Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law), and maybe some of his other children, and his friends Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and all the rest of the oligarchs, who are all in the same cabal.”

During the conversation, Morgan questioned why Waters still lives in the US if he feels so strongly about Trump, Waters replied that he’s considered leaving, mentioning Portugal and “some of the islands in the Caribbean”.

He then added: “it may be that my residency in the United States may not last for the rest of my life. It may well be that Donald and his cabal will make that decision for me because he is pretty erratic.”

Escalating the point

Waters escalated the point further while referencing the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a US immigration agent in Minneapolis earlier this month.

“He could send masked men around to shoot me in the head through my car window like he does to people who disagree with him,” Waters continues, a reference to the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a US immigration agent in Minneapolis on January 7th.

“We live in a really dangerous totally effed up world,” Waters adds.

Waters isn’t the only veteran rock artist to frame criticism of Trump as something that could come with consequences, Neil Young previously claimed he feared detention or punishment for speaking out, describing an America where dissent could be treated as a crime.

Whether Waters is speaking literally or emotionally, the message is clear, he believes the situation has crossed into something volatile, and he’s not backing off.