‘It’s murder’: Donald Trump’s handling of coronavirus blasted by The Chicks singer Natalie Maines
- Country singer accuses US president of ‘second degree murder’ for ‘ignoring things and speaking complete lies’ about the Covid-19 crisis
- Maines, speaking on The Howard Stern Show, says she finds Trump’s actions ‘unbelievable’
US President Donald Trump is guilty of murder because of his negligence in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the singer of US band The Chicks.
“There’s no leadership,” Natalie Maines said on The Howard Stern Show.
Maines, who got into hot water for trashing then-US president George W. Bush in 2003, tried to get off topic, but Stern asked the 45-year-old singer to finish her thought.
“It’s unbelievable …. It is crazy that we have a leader that is – I mean, it’s murder,” she continued. “It’s second degree murder. He’s not having to physically kill people but his ignoring things and speaking complete lies … it’s unbelievable.”
Maines and her band, then called The Dixie Chicks before their recent name change, were boycotted by radio stations and abandoned by some fans in 2003 when the singer spoke out against George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq.
“Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all,” she told fans during a show. “We do not want this war, this violence. And we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.”