Korn drummer rips GOP 'cult' for enabling Trump — 'a declining man surrounded by cowards'

Defending the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Minneapolis, President Donald Trump argued that the operation is, on the whole, going smoothly. Trump, referencing the fatal shootings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, seemed to be arguing that "two people out of tens of thousands" being killed is a good track record for an operation of that size.
But veteran rock drummer Michael Jochum, known for his work with the rap-metal/alternative metal band Korn, offered a scathing response to those comments in a post on Facebook.

"Watching Donald Trump speak now feels less like observing a president and more like standing too close to a malfunctioning machine that no one is brave enough to shut off," Jochum posted. "This week, during an NBC interview meant to address the execution of two American citizens by agents of the state, Trump didn't express grief, remorse, or even basic human concern. Instead, he whined about 'bad publicity.' Not the deaths. Not the families. The optics."

Jochum continued, "'Two people out of tens of thousands,' he sneered, waving away murdered Americans as rounding errors. Tens of thousands of what, exactly? Deportations? Arrests? Human beings reduced to a spreadsheet he can't even read anymore…. This isn't just cruelty anymore. It's cognitive decay wrapped in authoritarian indifference. Trump no longer even pretends to care who gets hurt as long as he can claim a win, any win, real or imagined. His mind has become a junk drawer of half-remembered slogans, violent impulses, and delusions of competence. The cruelty is instinctual now. The confusion is constant."

The drummer went on to lambast Republicans who continue to defend him.

The most "damning part," he lamented, is that Trump is "still propped up by a Republican Party that knows exactly what it’s doing."

"They don't misunderstand him," Jochum said of Republicans. "They enable him. They translate the babble into policy, the lies into laws, the violence into press releases.

Then there’s the cult. The sheep. The ones who stare at this unraveling and call it 'strength'…. Who excuse murder as necessary, confusion as genius, cruelty as patriotism."

Jochum continued, "This is not loyalty, it's surrender. A mass abdication of moral responsibility in exchange for grievance cosplay…. What remains is a dangerous, declining man surrounded by cowards and worshippers, all pretending this collapse is normal. It isn't. And the longer they pretend, the more blood ends up on all of their hands."

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