Ariel Pink has admitted to attending a pro-Trump protest at the White House yesterday after filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer photographer from Pink and John Maus together in town. Pink says he was there to ‘show peacefully [his] support for the president, ”but was not part of the crowd that stormed the Capitol. The role of Maus, that Moyer filmed observing crowds at the Capitol is unclear. In an email to Pitchfork, Moyer, whose Instagram account has been made private, says she met the pair to discuss an unrelated project and, in her role as a documentary journalist, “felt obligated to note. take what happened “in Washington.
After Pink became the subject of criticism on Twitter, he began responding to tweets questioning his involvement. “I was in DC to peacefully show my support for the president,” he said wrote. “I attended the meeting on the lawn of the White House and went back to the hotel and took a nap. case closed. ”Pressed whether it was irresponsible to be present during the pandemic, he replied, “All the people at these events deserve what comes to them. they took the risk and knew very well what could happen. Were the BLM protests of the past 6 months uninformed about the pandemic? Pink has earlier tweeted about supporting Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Maus shared one religious text seemingly intended criticize the idolization of Trump, but offered no explanation or clarification as to why he was in the Capitol. Pitchfork has emailed representatives of both artists and a follow-up email to Moyer.
Pink and Maus recently collaborated on the music for TFW No GF, Alex Lee Moyer’s 2019 documentary about 4chan and its incel subculture. Maus was also criticized in 2017 for his involvement in the Adult Swim program Million Dollar Extreme presents: World Peace, which was canceled in 2016 after the alt-right ideologies of show creator Sam Hyde were widely discussed. At the time, Maus stopped rejecting the creators of the series: “The guys I met were nice. They didn’t burn crosses or do anything like that, ”he said. “In other words, as far as I know about it, I’ve never had any indication that anything was going on other than certain cases of some kind of trolling.”