Metallica’s Kirk Hammett launches Tweetstorm against President Donald Trump

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett took to Twitter over the weekend to aim a series of impassioned tweets at President Donald Trump.

Posting 16 tweets in just 12 minutes in the wake of the President’s inaugural address in Washington DC on Friday (20th January), Kirk called on Americans to “reject the carnage” of Trump’s administration.

Not holding back, Kirk compared Trump’s rhetoric to 1930s Germany, accused him of spreading lies and wanting to divide the country, hit out at the Alt-Right movement calling it a “sneaky euphemism for white supremacy”, and slammed the administration for being “earth killers” and climate change deniers.

You can read his full attack below.

It’s not the first time Kirk has hit out at the President. Back in December, Kirk was asked about Trump’s claims that climate change was a hoax concocted by China.

He responded to Billboard: “Okay. Let's sit with that statement right there. What does that tell you about the man? What does that tell you? Any normal, educated person who has a pretty good grip on reality — evenly balanced, could even be a centrist sort of person, not left or not right, any person who I just described — upon hearing something like that would just think, 'What the fuckin' fairy tale did that come out of?'

"For me, a good leader is someone with integrity, honesty and altruism, and a general sense of what is right and what's wrong. We don't have that in our leadership right now, and that puts me in a state of awareness and attentiveness, and it puts me in a state of wait and see what will happen. But if anything happens that I'm not okay with, I'm going to be super vocal about it for the first time in my life."

Before Trump was elected, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich joked that he would permanently move back to Denmark if the billionaire businessman entered The White House.

James Hetfield told the BBC last November that Metallica don’t talk about politics in their music as "that just seems to polarize people even more.”

He added: “We all have our own beliefs, but at the end of the day, we're trying to connect with people and it seems like political views don't do that as much as music does."