New videos by both Justin Timberlake and U2 take potshots at President Trump. Timberlake pairs the president with Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey as a #MeToo statement, while the boys from Ireland have Ku Klux Klan members marching at the White House.
Timberlake’s new video for his latest single "Supplies" begins with the pop star staring at a wall of television screens flashing images of disgraced sexual abusers Weinstein and Spacey. Trump is on a screen as are protesters carrying “Me Too” signs. “End Racism Now” is also imposed on Trump’s face. At one point in the video, a woman’s shirt reads, “P***y Grabs Back.”
Timberlake will fit right in with the NFL protesters as the selected performer at the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show.
With U2’s video for "Get Out of Your Own Way," the band decided to go with a KKK theme and show them marching out on the lawn outside of the window while Trump sits in the Oval Office. There’s also a depiction of the dead Syrian child washed up on the beach whose picture rocked the refugee issue in 2015. A wall is also built to separate the yin-yang symbol. While the imagery is certainly political, so are the lyrics:
And resistance
Love has got to fight for its existence
The enemy has armies for assistance…Fight back
Don't take it lyin' down, you got to bite back
The face of liberty's starting to crack
She had a plan up until she got smacked in the mouth
And it all went south
Like freedom
The slaves are lookin' for someone to lead them
The master's lookin' for someone to need him
The promised land is there for those who need it most
And Lincoln's ghost said...Get out of your own way
The directors of the video, Broken Fingaz Crew, said, “The video addresses the current political situation. 2017 for us was the year fascists worldwide felt confident enough to raise their heads again, encouraged by Trump and other world leaders, who use people’s fear to build more walls and segregation.”
File these two flops in the "forgettable" file.
