Ariel Pink has admitted to attending a pro-Trump White House protest yesterday after filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer posted a photography of Pink and John Maus together in the city. Pink says he was there to “show off peacefully [his] support for the president, “but he was not part of the crowd that stormed the Capitol. The role of Maus, whom Moyer filmed it is not clear to observe crowds in the Capitol. In an email to Pitchfork, Moyer, whose Instagram account has been made private, says he met with the couple to discuss an unrelated project and, in his role as a documentary journalist, “went feeling compelled to record what was happening “in Washington.
After Pink became the subject of criticism on Twitter, she began responding to tweets questioning her involvement. “I was in DC to peacefully show my support for the president,” he said he wrote. “I attended the rally on the white house lawn and went back to the hotel and took a nap. case closed. “He pressed on whether it was irresponsible to attend the pandemic, he said answered, “All the people at these events deserve what happens to them. They risked knowing exactly what could happen. BLM protests over the past 6 months are not informed about the pandemic?” Rosa has done so before. he tweeted about supporting Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Maus shared one religious text apparently destined criticize Trump’s idolatry, but offered no explanation or clarification as to why he was at the Capitol. Pitchfork has emailed representatives of both artists and sent a follow-up email to Moyer.
Pink and Maus have recently collaborated on the music of TFW No GF, Alex Lee Moyer’s 2019 documentary about 4chan and its incel subculture. Maus also faced criticism in 2017 for his involvement with the Adult Swim program Millions of dollars present extremes: world peace, which was canceled in 2016 after it spread widely about the high-right ideologies of show creator Sam Hyde. Then, Maus stopped disabling the creators of the series: “The guys I met were nice. They didn’t burn or do anything like that, “he said. “In other words, I never had, as far as I know about it, any indication that anything more than certain cases of a kind of trolling happened.”