For the last four decades, GWAR have staged faux executions of every resident of the Oval Office, as well as countless others heads of state and notable dignitaries. But not until Donald Trump assumed the presidency did the shock rockers receive a visit from the Secret Service.
“We [fictitiously] killed President Obama. We didn’t hear from the Secret Service. But you [fictitiously] kill Trump, and you better believe that there’s gonna be some shit going on,” GWAR’s Mike “Blöthar The Berserker” Bishop shared in a recent interview with Rocking With Jam Man. “And that happened to us. It happened to us not too long ago.”
For all the talk about the Trump-era being a rejection of wokeness and cancel culture, Bishop said his band has experienced the opposite. “For years, GWAR would do whatever the fuck we wanted. We would kill politicians from both sides of the aisle. We would kill famous people. We never had any backlash,” he explained. “I mean, granted, when we killed Princess Diana, people got a little upset. When we pulled a fish out of Laci Peterson’s pussy, people got a little upset. But until Donald Trump got in office, that’s when people started getting extremely upset about politics and music and politics in art.”
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“People acted as if GWAR had changed, but GWAR didn’t change. The world fricking changed. The way people felt about politics changed. The way people felt about comedy and humor changed,” Bishop added. “Comics like to complain about, ‘Uh, well, college campuses and censoring speech.’ And yeah, it is true. College kids are fricking stupid. There’s no question about it. And being uptight about identity politics is absurd, but we still never got any heat from that segment. It’s not like feminists or the politically correct squad, they didn’t really come after GWAR. Who came after GWAR was fucking Trump fans. That’s who came after GWAR.”
Beyond hearing from the Secret Service, Bishop said the GWAR has faced pressure financial pressure. “What they have to do is make it hard for you to make money. And that’s what they try to do. And especially a company like Live Nation, which is a big concert company that does shows and stuff like that, they are susceptible to pressure from the government,” he explained. “And when you upset them, they can lean on you, and that is fucking censorship, no matter what you call it. so, we have faced that. GWAR faces it all the time. It’s a real fucking thing.”
Despite this, GWAR show no signs of changing their antics. At the Washington, DC, stop of Warped Tour last weekend, they disemboweled of an effigy of President Trump.
Gwar killed Trump again at Warped Tour and people in the comments who don’t understand what Gwar does (they are monster alien warriors, scumdogs of the universe) are once again having a meltdown.
They kill every president (foreign and domestic, also the queen) and celebrity. No… pic.twitter.com/7c713ymySO
— Cassandra MacDonald (@CassandraRules) June 19, 2026