Slayer fans enraged as band post seemingly pro-Donald Trump photo, call gay people ‘fruits’
Vocalist Tom Araya blasted "snowflakes" for taking offence
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Lead vocalist and bassist Tom Araya has posted a photo of the band on their official Instagram account with President Trump photoshopped in making the sign of the horns.
“Like him or not he is the president,” Araya wrote (read his caption in full below), later replying to a commenter: “Mike pence turning fruits into vegetables [*crying with laughter emoji*],” (sic) - a reference to the vice president’s support of electric shock therapy for ‘gay conversion’.
The commenter Araya was addressing, @zogar77, wrote: “I happen to be gay @slayerbandofficial so fuck you and your fruits to vegetables comment. Go crawl up Pence's arse.”
In his first few days in office, Trump has signed off on the building of a gargantuan wall between the US and Mexico, made it harder for the world to educate women about abortion and scrapped a major trade deal with Pacific Rim countries.
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