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TWISTED SISTER guitarist
Jay Jay French has called
Donald Trump a "white supremacist president" whose tenure at the White House was a "long national nightmare."
Early this morning,
Trump left the White House for the final time of his presidency, ahead of the inauguration of
Joe Biden. He then took a helicopter to the nearby Andrews base, where he spoke, and then boarded the Air Force One plane for Florida.
Late Tuesday night (January 19),
French took to his
Twitter to write: "in a little over 12 hours, the long national nightmare of the
Trump presidency will be over. The stain he leaves behind will need time to be exorcised from our lives. A White supremacist president and the racism he has endorsed has been exposed needs to be ultimately eradicated."
This is not the first time
French has blasted
Trump in one of his tweets. Last July, the musician, who had written a bi-weekly column for
Inc. magazine's web site for nearly six years, wrote: "I'm so tired of people writing about #LeadershipMatters #leadership #leadershipskills who recycle the same old cliche's but have never ever run a company. Stop #Phonyleadership advice NOW!! Especially those who have run companies into the ground, had racist hiring practices, filed multiple bankruptcies, sexually harassed dozens of women, paid off porn stars and screwed every vendor and lending institution. Who is
Trump international!!"
French is not the only member of
TWISTED SISTER to be openly critical of
Trump. Singer
Dee Snider, who got to know
Trump personally after appearing more than once on
"The Celebrity Apprentice", said that he was "extremely disappointed" with the way
Trump handled the coronavirus pandemic. "A lot of this could have been avoided," he said. "I mean, certain things were inevitable — the virus was coming, sickness was coming, death was coming. That was inevitable, but the way it was handled, many deaths could have been prevented and we could have been ahead of things instead of behind things. Right now, it feels like, in my country, that we're constantly trying to catch up to the virus as it does what it does. This could have been very different, but we didn't learn from the lessons of others, unfortunately."
Back in November 2017,
Snider said that he could no longer be friends with
Trump because he did not share the president's views on important issues, including the
Trump administration's harsh immigration policy.
Snider found himself in the middle of controversy in 2016 when he asked
Trump to stop using the 1984
TWISTED SISTER anthem
"We're Not Gonna Take It" in his campaign. The singer said at the time that
Trump was very gracious about the request.
French has four decades of experience as the manager, guitarist and director of licensing, publishing and touring for
TWISTED SISTER. He is also a keynote and motivational speaker, reinvention expert and entrepreneur, as well as the founder of
The Pink Burst Project, a nonprofit.