She famously penned an open letter to George W. Bush in her hit song ‘Dear Mr President’.
And now, Pink has focused her attention upon President Donald Trump, accusing him and the US Republican party of ‘failing’ the people of America.
‘It’s a different world now, since I wrote Dear Mr President. I didn’t think a president could actually make that president look good,’ she told Australian entertainment reporter Richard Wilkinson on the Today show this Friday.
‘I feel like our government has failed us’: Pink has focussed her attention upon President Donald Trump, accusing him and the Republican party of ‘failing’ the people of America
‘And I feel like our government has failed us,’ she added.
Earlier in the week, Pink received a slew of online backlash when she Tweeted that ‘there is still hope’ for President Trump as he completes his term as president.
‘I was reading all the fascinating things that our President is doing, all the things he has time to do, and I just decided to go on a Twitter rant,’ she explained during the Today interview.
Lashing out: ‘It’s a different world now, since I wrote Dear Mr President. I didn’t think a president could actually make that president look good,’ she said
‘I decided to try and be hopeful and at least a little optimistic’: Earlier in the week, Pink received a slew of online backlash when she Tweeted that ‘there is still hope’ for Trump as he completes his term as president
‘And I started saying that he’s doing a terrible job and a more terrible job than every other job he’s been terrible at,’ she went on.
‘But then I decided to try and be hopeful and at least a little optimistic and I said ‘there’s still hope for you. I think you can turn it around!”
‘And then that was the one that p*ssed everyone off the most. So that was the one where apparently I voted for him, I’m a racist,’ she scoffed.
‘He still has a chance to be a good president’: On Tuesday, Pink attempted to clear things up after her Tweets caused a stir among her online fans, telling HuffPost that she didn’t mean for her second Tweet to be interpreted as support for Trump
On Tuesday, Pink attempted to clear things up after her Tweets caused a stir among her online fans, telling HuffPost that she didn’t mean for her second Tweet to be interpreted as support for Trump.
‘The naive little girl in me wants to think that even Donald Trump can change. So maybe berating him isn’t the way,’ she said.
‘Maybe inspiring him and maybe he, even he down deep in there, maybe could still be a good person.’
‘He still has a chance to be a good president. And that’s what I got vilified for ― was the hope.’
Pop-star with a political stance: Pink famously penned an open letter to George W. Bush by releasing her hit song ‘Dear Mr President’