{"id":95673,"date":"2017-03-27T21:07:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T01:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=95673"},"modified":"2017-03-27T21:07:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T01:07:53","slug":"punk-legend-johnny-rotten-supports-trump-brexit-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/27\/punk-legend-johnny-rotten-supports-trump-brexit-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Punk legend Johnny Rotten supports Trump, Brexit vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_95674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95674\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/433px-John_Lydon_-_2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-95674\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/433px-John_Lydon_-_2010.jpg\" alt=\"Count punk pioneer Johnny Rotten among President Donald Trump's supporters. (Photo By http:\/\/www.shelleyannphotography.com Shell Smith (Flickr: John Lydon Public Image Limited (PiL)) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0)])\" width=\"433\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/433px-John_Lydon_-_2010.jpg 433w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/433px-John_Lydon_-_2010-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-95674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Count punk pioneer Johnny Rotten among President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AJohn_Lydon_-_2010.jpg\">http:\/\/www.shelleyannphotography.com Shell Smith (Flickr: John Lydon Public Image Limited (PiL)) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0)]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>LONDON \u2014 Count punk pioneer Johnny Rotten among President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters.<\/p>\n<p>The former Sex Pistols front man, whose real name is John Lydon, tells ITV&#8217;s \u201cGood Morning Britain\u201d that \u201cthere&#8217;s many, many problems\u201d with Trump as a person, but he&#8217;s not racist. Lydon says Trump \u201cterrifies politicians and this is joy to behold.\u201d He says he looks at Trump as \u201ca possible friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lydon is a U.S. citizen, but also weighed in on the politics of his native Britain, saying he&#8217;s in favour of the UK&#8217;s vote to leave the European Union last year. He says, \u201cthe working class have spoke and I&#8217;m one of them and I&#8217;m with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 Count punk pioneer Johnny Rotten among President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters. The former Sex Pistols front man, whose real &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":95674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[9869,17131],"class_list":["post-95673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-donald-trump","tag-johnny-rotten","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}