Of the many musicians who took a stand against Donald Trump, Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland was particularly vocal, going so far as to ask those who supported Trump‘s now successful U.S. presidential bid to unfollow him on social media.
Given the current state of America in general, he took quite a bit of backlash for his views, as did his wife, Carré, whom he plays alongside in Queen Kwong. Ironically though, despite it being pretty clear that couple were anti-Trump, people are still harassing his wife mistakenly thinking she supported him.
In turn, Borland launched into the following response in which he reveals his decision to walk away from reading comments and participating in discussion on social media:
“I’m reposting this because the overall message was obviously missed in the initial post. It was confusing when Carré received this DM, considering neither of us supported Trump. But the bigger picture we were trying to show, was how someone can jump to saying such vile, hateful, shitty things to someone they don’t event know, and obviously have the wrong impression of.
This person who claims to be a fan of my band sent this shit to my wife. That shows how fucked up and hateful people can be. And instead of people recognizing that this kind of hate and behavior shouldn’t be tolerated, people got butt hurt and then made it about the new LB record still not being out. Wtf? Proves my point that everyone’s priorities are fucked.
Saying that this dude probably sent this message to Carré because he’s disappointed that there’s no LB record out yet, is asinine. Furthermore, I never promised a new LB record. I am only responsible and in control of what I can do. I put out a record this year that was better reviewed than anything I’ve ever done in my entire career.
Hardly anyone bought it because most people streamed it. So, not sure why people expect any of us to be motivated to churn out more records…For this post to even turn into a conversation about the new LB record is frustrating enough, though.
So from here on out, I’m not reading comments or participating in discussion. Whenever I do I get slammed for being a real person and not the black eyed one dimensional guitar playing monkey that so many of you would like to see me as which is about as spot on as if YOU were only capable of doing the job you get paid for while having no other wisdom, expertise, interests, rights, opinions, or useful knowledge outside of that one narrow field. If you’re one of the many who’ve been interesting, reasonable, thoughtful, and cool, I appreciate it.”
