{"id":807418,"date":"2020-05-13T21:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T03:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=999428"},"modified":"2020-05-13T21:37:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T03:37:04","slug":"guns-n-roses-slam-trump-with-live-n-let-die-with-covid-45%e2%80%b2-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/guns-n-roses-slam-trump-with-live-n-let-die-with-covid-45%e2%80%b2-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns N\u2019 Roses Slam Trump With \u2018Live N\u2019 Let Die With COVID 45\u2032 Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/10441613bd.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Guns N\u2019 Roses have unveiled a new T-shirt that appears to slam President Trump\u2019s recent visit to Arizona\u2019s Honeywell factory, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/trump-tours-factory-maskless-live-and-let-die-song-994546\/\">Trump went maskless<\/a> as workers blared the band\u2019s cover of the James Bond theme song from Wings, \u201cLive and Let Die.\u201d&nbsp;The factory produces N95 masks for the federal government and a sign at the facility stated that masks were required.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of that moment, Guns N\u2019 Roses have released a shirt that reads \u201cLive N\u2019 Let Die With COVID 45,\u201d which looks to be a direct damning reference to Trump\u2019s maskless factory tour. Per the band\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gnrmerch.com\/products\/live-n-let-die-with-covid-45-t-shirt?variant=31623707066466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">merch website<\/a>, 100 percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Recording Academy\u2019s MusiCares, which provides services and resources to those in need in the music community.<\/p>\n<p>Singer Axl Rose has been outspoken about his disdain for Trump\u2019s administration and its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s official! Whatever anyone may have previously thought of Steve Mnuchin he\u2019s officially an asshole,\u201d Rose&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axlrose\/status\/1258161648184905728\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> earlier this month, seemingly in response to the Treasury Secretary\u2019s claim that \u201cThis is a great time for people to explore America\u201d during an appearance on Fox Business.<\/p>\n<p>Mnuchin then responded to Rose\u2019s tweet with, \u201cWhat have you done for the country lately?\u201d followed by an emoji of the flag of Liberia. After being widely mocked on Twitter, the tweet was then deleted and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stevenmnuchin1\/status\/1258190359756226563\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">replaced<\/a>&nbsp;with one bearing the same question and an American flag emoji.<\/p>\n<p>Rose, who caught the original post,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axlrose\/status\/1258265406050951169\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted back<\/a>, \u201cMy bad I didn\u2019t get we\u2019re hoping 2 emulate Liberia\u2019s economic model but on the real unlike this admin I\u2019m not responsible for 70k+ deaths n\u2019 unlike u I don\u2019t hold a fed gov position of responsibility 2 the American people n\u2019 go on TV tellin them 2 travel the US during a pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"3.6814159292035\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Live N&#8217; Let Die\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RvvMnTyJxt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/RvvMnTyJxt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wdgzra3S5h\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/wdgzra3S5h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guns N&#8217; Roses (@gunsnroses) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gunsnroses\/status\/1260667837670178816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">May 13, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/guns-n-roses-slam-trump-live-n-let-die-with-covid-45-shirt-999428\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guns N\u2019 Roses have unveiled a new T-shirt that appears to slam President Trump\u2019s recent visit to Arizona\u2019s Honeywell factory, where Trump went maskless as workers blared the band\u2019s cover of the James Bond theme song from Wings, \u201cLive and Let Die.\u201d&nbsp;The factory produces N95 masks for the federal government and a sign at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 05:08:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}