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Billy Joel Slams Donald Trump’s 2017 Charlottesville Speech in Documentary: ‘Nazis Are Not Good People’
NEW YORK CITY, JUL 25 – Billy Joel wore a Star of David during his Madison Square Garden concert to protest President Trump’s remarks on the Charlottesville rally, which involved racist and antisemitic violence.
- Billy Joel, a Jewish musician and five-time Grammy Award recipient, demonstrated his disapproval of Donald Trump's 2017 Charlottesville remarks by wearing a Star of David during a performance at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
- The protest followed the August 11, 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where white supremacists clashed with counterprotestors, prompting controversy over Trump's statement that there were "very fine people on both sides."
- Joel said he felt compelled to act after hearing antisemitic chants like "Jews will not replace us" and Trump's refusal to clearly condemn the marchers, connecting it to his family’s history of being slaughtered in Auschwitz.
- He stated, "Nazis aren't ‘very fine people.’ That's just bulls--t," and described his silent protest as a simple but powerful message of standing against hate and racism.
- Joel's stand highlighted the importance of vocal opposition to racism, while a 2024 federal court ruled white supremacist groups must pay $2 million for damages from the rally that caused one death and multiple injuries.
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Billy Joel blasts Trump over Charlottesville comments in new documentary
Myrna M. Suarez/Getty Images Billy Joel is not an artist who often gets political. But in the second part of his HBO documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, he has some very strong words for President Donald Trump regarding the comments he made after 2017’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. While Billy says in the film that he “never liked getting political onstage,” he did just that after Trump responded to the rally of white…
Billy Joel condemns Donald Trump’s Charlottesville comments
The "Piano Man" wore a Star of David on his jacket at his Madison Square Garden concert in response to the 2017 rally. Kevin Mazur/Getty; Anna Moneymaker/Getty Billy Joel and Donald TrumpBilly Joel is slamming President Donald Trump over his claim that there were “very fine people on both sides” of 2017's “Unite the Right” white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.“I’ve never liked getting political onstage," Joel confessed in the second in…
Billy Joel blasts Trump over Charlottesville comments in new documentary - Everett Post
Billy Joel is not an artist who often gets political. But in the second part of his HBO documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, he has some very strong words for President Donald Trump regarding the comments he made after 2017’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. While Billy says in the film that he “never liked getting political onstage,” he did just that after Trump responded to the rally of white nationalists by giving a spe…
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