Because of Trump, Pop Singer Will No Longer Show U.S. Flag on Tour

“I’d rather have static.”

Pop singer Lana Del Rey is blaming President Trump for causing her embarrassment for projecting the U.S. flag during her stage show and so, she has vowed to remove the imagery from the rest of her tour.

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“It’s certainly uncomfortable,” Del Rey said in an interview with Pitchfork. “I definitely changed my visuals on my tour videos. I’m not going to have the American flag waving while I’m singing ‘Born to Die.’ It’s not going to happen. I’d rather have static.”

Del Rey stopped in Paris on Sunday for Lollapalooza and said, “I think it would be inappropriate to be in France with an American flag. It would feel weird to me now — it didn’t feel weird in 2013.”

“It’s a transitional period, and I’m super aware of that,” she added. (Unfortunately, none of us is “super aware” of who you are!)

The singer said Trump makes her feel less safe and therefore, she’s embarrassed to be an American and the whole thing has made her more political:

“It’s more appropriate now than under the Obama administration, where at least everyone I knew felt safe. It was a good time. We were on the up-and-up. Women started to feel less safe under this administration instantly. What if they take away Planned Parenthood? What if we can’t get birth control? Now, when people ask me those questions, I feel a little differently.

“I feel less safe than I did when Obama was president. When you have a leader at the top of the pyramid who is casually being loud and funny about things like that, it’s brought up character defects in people who already have the propensity to be violent towards women. I saw it right away in L.A. Walking down the street, people would just say things to you that I had never heard.”

We've never, like, heard her songs.

H/T Washington Times

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