Ministry Is One American-Made Product Trump Can Keep His (Tiny) Hands Off...

In recent weeks, US President Donald Trump has been toting high above his coiffed head some of North America’s greatest industrial achievements. Though it’s safe to say there is one American industry keen to keep the hell away from it all - industrial metal. Ministry couldn’t make a bigger point of this than heading to Australia, the farthest place possible from The States.

Throughout last year’s fascinating US election, Ministry’s sovereign leader Al Jourgensen left little unexplained as to how he feels about the whole shebang. Speaking of the conservative faction of US politics, the Republican party, Jourgensen explained to Cleveland Scene that, in his view, the reason a Republican President won’t work is, well, because the party is all out of famed actors.

“They have a lack of intellectual curiosity or seeing the complexity of world issues. It’s all black and white and all about big money donors. The intelligence level is low. Reagan could get away with it because Reagan was an actor. Bush couldn’t get away with it because he was just a dolt.”

Obviously making the brutal 24-hour flight to Australia all the more bearable is Jourgensen’s disdain for not just parties ideology, not just their leaders, but also their followers. Rather than drop a new album full of political diatribe aimed at Trump specifically, the vocalist is keen to leave the “the low-hanging fruit” to some of the “younger groups” while he tackles the far bigger issue at hand.

“I would rather sing about the sociological conditions that have gotten an entire country to vote for such a dolt. I’m not going to be bashing Trump. I’ll probably be bashing his supporters in the lyrics to the next Ministry album. It will be more so about that than Trump.”

In the past, Jourgensen has jumped head first into the political debate, at one point in 2012 declaring, “These Republicans, especially these rookie knuckleheads, these Tea Party fucks. No! I’m not dealing with it. I’ll go toe to toe with them in any way, anytime, anywhere. I’ll have a cage match with these fuckers! I’ll slam [Republican State Senator] Marco Rubio to the fucking ground wearing a lucha libre mask from Mexico.”

Of course these days, Jourgensen might have a much harder time obtaining imported goods from Mexico than in the blissful political ignorance of 2012.

How about a Crocodile Dundee mask, Al? We’ve got spares...

Tour dates:

25 Sept, Astor Theatre, Perth

26 Sept, The Gov, Adelaide

27 & 29 Sept, Metro Theatre, Sydney

30 Sept, Forum Theatre, Melbourne

1 Oct, The Tivoli, Brisbane

Tickets available via Metropolis.