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The One w/ Greg Gutfeld

Johnny Rotten on Endorsing Donny "Rotten" Trump

The One w/ Greg Gutfeld

FOX News Radio

Comedy, Society & Culture, News

4.23.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Greg's guest today is John Lydon also known by his stage name Johnny Rotten. He's a English singer, songwriter and author. He is best known as the lead singer of the late-1970s British punk band the Sex Pistols. He is currently the frontman for Public Image Ltd. (PiL). They discuss the reasons he has endorsed President Trump and he is fired up! Check out his new book: I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right and documentary The Public Image Is Rotten on major streaming services. Learn more about Johnny: http://www.johnlydon.com/ Twitter: @lydonofficial Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Greg Gutfeld. I am excited because I have one of my favorite people

0:10.2

in the world. A person who kind of changed my life in a positive way when I was a teenager

0:16.5

by fronting the band The Sex Pistols, which I remember buying that record and playing

0:21.7

it for the first time. It was like, I was in my bedroom. It was like in the late 70s. I

0:26.3

was 14 or 15 and it scared the crap out of me. I actually put it away for three months.

0:31.7

I refused to play it. And then I decided I got to give it another chance and it changed

0:36.5

me. I could talk on and on and on and on about Johnny Rodden. But what's to say? Johnny,

0:43.0

how are you? I'm fine. I guess what? On the same subject, me. I could talk on and on

0:49.4

and on and on. That's great. It's always good to hear your voice. And so I tried to be as

1:00.6

cognitive as I possibly can. You know, I wanted to ask you a question that I think that I

1:09.8

don't know if anybody's asked you this question. But I was wondering, being who you are over

1:13.8

in the past 40 years, you've got to have some kind of insight on how the media shapes stories.

1:19.7

So like somebody writes about you and you go, hold on a minute. That didn't happen. Yeah.

1:25.4

Do you have a spet? I mean, I would assume you have a special instinct into understanding

1:30.1

what's real and what's not. Well, I have a special relationship with the media in the

1:38.6

text that came at me from the very right from the very start. It was fairly relentless.

1:46.6

And just continued on and on and on through the decades to the point where I think people

1:51.4

just began to see through that flimsy veil of hatred and disgust for anybody that thinks

1:57.6

outside of the box. I mean, we're seeing this at the moment. I don't really want to be

2:03.2

political, but Donald Trump really should be called Donnie Rotten. He's going through it.

2:11.9

And I feel for him. And I know that that hatred they build up, it's relentless. And it's this

2:18.6

demand that we fit into the agenda. And the very thing I just buy about politicians is because

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