Guns N Roses frontman Axl Rose calls Trump ‘repulsive’ and accuses him of fueling anarchy over George Floyd – The Sun

GUNS N Roses frontman Axl Rose called President Donald Trump "repulsive" and accused him of fueling anarchy over George Floyd.

The 58-year-old rock legend blasted the president for criticizing the media as protests spread and violence escalated across the country following the death of African-American man George Floyd.

Floyd, 46, died last Monday after former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, 44, held his knee on the man’s neck for nearly nine minutes while arresting him.

Rose tweeted Sunday: "Lamestream media ISN'T doing everything within their power 2 foment hatred n' anarchy, that's U!

"As long as we get what Ur doing, that Ur FAKE NEWS n' a truly bad, repulsive excuse 4 a person w/a sick agenda, we can work past U w/whatever it takes 2 a better, stronger future!"

The anti-Trump musician's fiery tweet was a direct response to Trump blaming the "Lamestream Media" for "doing everything within their power to foment hatred and anarchy."

Trump's tweet, posted about 12 hours before Axl's statement, read: "As long as everybody understands what they are doing, that they are FAKE NEWS and truly bad people with a sick agenda, we can easily work through them to GREATNESS!

This isn't the first time Rose has voiced his hatred towards the president on Twitter.

In November 2016, Trump tweeted that the cast of Hamilton was ruse to Mike Pence and requested an apology.

His words angered Rose, prompting the musician to tweet: "'Hamilton Cast harassed Pence.' Do u ever stop whining? An apology?Seriously?!U won,this is the job,get on with it or get out of the kitchen."

In January 2018, Rose condemned the White House for being "the current US gold standard of what can be considered disgraceful."

Last month, Rose said Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was "officially an a**hole" – prompting a Twitter feud between the two.

A few days ago Trump tweeted: "When the looting starts, the shooting starts" – and insisted his statement is "fact."

He later defended his controversial tweet on the Minneapolis protests – which had been flagged by Twitter for "glorifying violence" – and clarified what the statement meant.

"Looting leads to shooting, and that’s why a man was shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday night – or look at what just happened in Louisville with 7 people shot. I don’t want this to happen, and that’s what the expression put out last night means….

"….It was spoken as a fact, not as a statement. It’s very simple, nobody should have any problem with this other than the haters, and those looking to cause trouble on social media. Honor the memory of George Floyd!"

Trump had posted a series of tweets explaining he would bring in the National Guard and "get the job done right" if "Radical Left" Mayor Jacob Frey did not get things under control in Minneapolis.

It comes a week after Twitter's social media platform's head of site integrity, Yoel Roth, called the President's team "actual nazis" in a resurfaced tweet.

Yoel Roth's tweets resurfaced after Twitter for the first time prompted readers to check facts in tweets sent by Trump, warning his claims about mail-in ballots were false and had been debunked by fact-checkers.."

Roth's controversial resurfaced tweet from January 22, 2017, read: "Yes, that person in the pink hat is clearly a bigger threat to your brand of feminism than ACTUAL NAZIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE."

Videos of Floyd's arrest circulated the internet last week, showing police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on his neck for several minutes as Floyd told him: "I can't breathe."

The death has been compared to the death of Eric Garner in 2014 and those of numerous other unarmed black men who have died or been shot by police in the course of an arrest in recent years.

Chauvin was charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the case.

Meanwhile, more than 4,100 people have been arrested in the United States as many across the country continue to angrily protest Floyd's death.

For the sixth night, demonstrations broke out in at least 140 cities in the US, with tens of thousands of people in the streets, with some rioting, looting, and lighting police cars on fire.

From New York to Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia — protests happened in dozens of states, and at least 26 governors called in the National Guard for assistance.

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