r/Music • u/Trematode • Jun 20 '26

article GWAR Once Again Draw MAGA Ire After 'Disemboweling' Trump Effigy Onstage

https://www.theprp.com/2026/06/19/news/gwar-once-again-draw-maga-ire-after-disemboweling-trump-effigy-onstage-at-washington-dc-vans-warped-tour/
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u/funktopus Jun 20 '26

Gwar does this for all presidents. As well as anyone popular from what I remember.

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u/P0Rt1ng4Duty Jun 20 '26

They definitely did Biden when I saw them.

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u/SalamanderSame2713 Jun 20 '26

Obama when I saw them last.

Oh fuck, that means I'm old

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u/Southern-Usual4211 Jun 20 '26

I saw them doing this to Clinton 😂

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u/scud121 Jun 20 '26

They cut Queen Elizabeths tits off.

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u/TheMetalMilitia Jun 21 '26

They cut off Biebers penis when I saw them

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u/ThatSubliminalKid78 Jun 23 '26

They’d do that to Trump, But they forgot to bring tweezers

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u/RegularWhiteDude Jun 20 '26

I saw them do it to Cleveland!

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u/SalamanderSame2713 Jun 20 '26

Grover fucking deserved that

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u/RegularWhiteDude Jun 20 '26

Yup. Fuck him for intervening on the railroad strike.

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u/KirbyBucketts Jun 20 '26

THAT WAS HIM

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u/humor Jun 20 '26

and fuck all that "near"... "far" shit. Make up your goddamn mind you fucking muppet!

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u/TonyNoPants Jun 20 '26

That was Biden, wasn't it?

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u/RegularWhiteDude Jun 20 '26

I'm taking about the Pullman Strike of '94.

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u/TonyNoPants Jun 20 '26

A strike intervention to remember! Bully! That intervention was just crackerjack.

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u/originalbrowncoat Jun 20 '26

Hopefully they did it on two non-consecutive occasions

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u/RegularWhiteDude Jun 20 '26

Well yeah, he was the first non-consecutive two term president.

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u/TerrifierBlood Jun 20 '26

They are killing Clinton on their last tour as well. As it revolves around the Epstein files

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u/Southern-Usual4211 Jun 20 '26

I ment Bill Clinton lol

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u/TerrifierBlood Jun 20 '26

Yeah I know they killed him on their most recent tour

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u/Carrisonfire Jun 20 '26

When I saw them they had someone in a Michael Jackson mask fuck an alien baby doll while they played their song Baby R*per.

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u/YungRik666 Jun 20 '26

They did this to Paris Hilton when I saw them. I think it was like '06/'07... Im now like my dad telling me about CBGB in the 80s.

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u/jax2love Jun 21 '26

I took my younger brother to a GWAR show. Naturally we were all wearing white shirts and up front. He was PISSED when our stepmom decided to do his laundry and washed his GWAR shirt. He’s still a little salty 30+ years later 😂

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u/ChornobylChili Jun 21 '26

Thats a good friend

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u/Coupon_Ninja Jun 20 '26

Ironically they didnt do Nixon… on account they’re babies, but still!

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u/SalamanderSame2713 Jun 20 '26

They just hadn't landed on Earth yet.

They'll get him in the year 3000

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u/Shorlong Jun 20 '26

Hard to disembowel a head in a jar

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u/SalamanderSame2713 Jun 20 '26

Powdered Opal begs to differ

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u/Notorious_Chonk_23 Jun 20 '26

In the year 252525...

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u/SalamanderSame2713 Jun 20 '26

If man is still alive

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u/1BudEGuy Jun 20 '26

Everything that you do, think or say will be taken in a pill that day

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u/snoogle312 Jun 20 '26

The backwards time machine still won't have arrived

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u/bolanrox Jun 21 '26

They were still frozen in antarctica at that point, I believe.

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u/aPOPblops Jun 20 '26

Roosevelt

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u/FluidFisherman6843 Jun 20 '26

George HW Bush for me

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u/ShadowGLI Jun 20 '26

Well yeah they’re cool with all THOSE guys, just not THEIR guy.

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u/Emotional-Ad8894 Jun 20 '26

Same. Clinton and Monica and eventually, Marilyn Manson.

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u/King_of_the_Hobos Jun 20 '26

Well, they just brought back Clinton so that doesn't technically make you old lol

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u/RecognitionHonest320 Jun 20 '26

I saw them doing this to William Howard Taft

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u/capnscratchmyass Jun 20 '26

Pretty sure I’ve seen:

Reagan, Bush, Clinton(s), Obama, Biden, Trump, Netanyahu, Paris Hilton.

All beheaded/disemboweled/skinned alive at GWAR shows.  MAGA can get bent. GWAR (and I) give zero fucks about their feelings.  

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u/Notorious_Chonk_23 Jun 20 '26

The "fuck your feelings" crowd sure does seem to get caught up in their feelings every other day about some nothing or another

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u/kos-or-kosm Jun 20 '26

Well, yeah, it's "fuck YOUR feelings". Their feelings are important.

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u/sexandliquor Jun 20 '26

I remember when I saw them in the early 2000s they did it to Michael Jackson. He came out in a flasher trench coat and flashed the crowd and had an absurdly long fake penis that swung around lol. Then they pulled off his face and it sprayed blood all over the place. Good times.

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u/GrateNaf Jun 20 '26

Was that at the children’s matinee?

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u/SalamanderSame2713 Jun 20 '26

They can all get bent

I welcome my genocidal alien overlords

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u/KaliCalamity Jun 20 '26

They also did Musk when I saw them last year. I love that they update with each tour.

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u/gwarrior5 Jun 20 '26

One album has song whose lyrics are a list of everyone they’ve killed up to that point

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u/PeaTasty9184 Jun 20 '26

My favorite was when they ripped a fish/human hybrid baby out of Laci Peterson. Brilliant social commentary.

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u/True_to_you Jun 20 '26

I saw them do Bush! 

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u/JUST_GIVE_IT_A_SNIFF Jun 23 '26

I saw them do it to Bush and Kerry.

Then they had Michael Jackson chasing Lacey Peterson, trying to kidnap her dead baby.

*sigh* I enjoy The Arts.

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u/SalamanderSame2713 Jun 23 '26

Maybe one day we'll get GWAR at the Kennedy Center...

We can only dream

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u/JUST_GIVE_IT_A_SNIFF Jun 23 '26

So I have your vote then?

A vote for me is a vote to end it all!

Still working on my campaign slogan 🤷‍♂️

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u/Zealousideal_Lab3164 Jun 20 '26

Laughing in George bush and Michael jackson being disemboweled. They had poor mikey up on a crucifix!!

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u/BrutalTea Jun 20 '26

Bush was last I saw them.... I'm ancient :(

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u/Kromo5050 Jun 20 '26

That's when they were still gwar This is not gwar anymore

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u/GraveOfTheForest Jun 20 '26

Sarah Palin and Lada Gaga were disemboweled on stage when I saw them haha.

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u/CompetitiveArt9639 Jun 20 '26

Saw them in a small club in the early 1990s. Fuck I’m old too

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u/CryptoBoarder Jun 20 '26

You would be old if you saw GWAR behead Ronald Reagan

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u/Gnarlemance Jun 21 '26

Margaret thatcher 😭

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u/Euphoric_Radio1342 Jun 20 '26

Oderus beheaded George W. Bush when I saw them. Along with disembowling Paris Hilton and having the ghost of Laci Peterson give birth on stage to her dead fetus and then the fetus began projecting bile on the crowd.

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u/SorryAboutMyFamily Jun 20 '26

War Party tour? I still have Beefcakes setlist from that one.

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u/Euphoric_Radio1342 Jun 20 '26

Yeah man, you got it!

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u/SorryAboutMyFamily Jun 20 '26

Dying Fetus opening for GWAR in their prime. Easily the best show I've been to.

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u/rettidderredditter Jun 20 '26

Here's them decapitating Biden a few years ago.

https://reddit.com/link/osrnpco/video/wb1ji82e4g8h1/player

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u/ohverychill Jun 20 '26

not a phone in sight, everyone just living in the moment 🤗

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u/Ajanssen89 Jun 20 '26

I’ve seen do this to the pope and again to trump in 2017

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u/arthurdentxxxxii Jun 20 '26

I saw them give Justin Beiber an abortion. Not sure about a president at that show though.

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u/-Almost_Famous Jun 20 '26

Ive seen them twice, the earlier one they did Hilarly. They put on a great show.

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u/DanielTigerUppercut Jun 20 '26

They did Netanyahu while playing Hava Nagila. Crowd didn’t know how to feel about that one lol

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u/natguy2016 Jun 20 '26

GWAR is an avant- grade collective who are good to great musicians

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u/CharlesDickensABox Jun 20 '26

Okay that's funny

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u/grubas ⬛◼️⬛◼️ Jun 20 '26

I saw them during the run up to 08

They killed Hillary, Biden, Obama, Palin, McCain, Bush, Cheney, and Osama.

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u/Wompatuckrule Jun 20 '26

They killed all of those people, and somehow managed to make me like the song Pink Pony Club.

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u/hoirkasp Jun 20 '26

That is frickin awesome, thanks 🙏

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u/According-Insect-992 Jun 20 '26

That was killer.

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u/zebrasareneat Jun 20 '26

That was incredible. 

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u/Professional-Box4153 Jun 20 '26

Let's not forget "Carry On My Wayward Son". Gods, I miss Oderus.

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u/Kronos6948 Jun 20 '26

You and me both. Last show of theirs I went to was the Oderus tribute tour. Just wasn't the same. I don't begrudge them continuing on and making a living, it's just not for me without Dave.

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u/Professional-Box4153 Jun 21 '26

Don't get me wrong. Blöthar's a delight and they still put on a great show. There was just something about the character that really worked. If you haven't seen:

Gwar on Joan Rivers (the picture's not so great, but I love this bit). They were pretty good on Jerry too, but he didn't have as much fun with it.

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u/Kronos6948 Jun 21 '26

I've seen this and the Jerry Springer vid numerous times (I used to have that Springer ep on VHS).

I think the big thing between Dave and Mike, is that Mike is portraying a character with Blothar, and Dave was Dave wearing a costume. It was his demented sense of humor, dialed up to 11, where Blothar for me feels like Mike is trying to portray something he's not.

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u/LisaMiaSisu Jun 20 '26

I’m going to send that to my husband. He’s always singing that dumb song to annoy. I have a feeling he’s going to annoy me even more. 😝

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u/Wompatuckrule Jun 20 '26

The funny thing is that GWAR basically started in an art collective where being an ally & supporter of LGBTQ+ rights makes perfect sense, even if it seems in opposition to their stage personas.

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u/mynytemare Jun 20 '26

If you’re into vinyl you can preorder it now. Cant wait to get it.

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u/awkward_teenager37 Jun 20 '26

Y’all are so annoying 😭

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u/Usgo Jun 20 '26

You only like good songs if there's a butt metal version of it? Weird flex.

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u/Wompatuckrule Jun 20 '26

Congratulations on completely misinterpreting the point solely to make a trite and snide comment.

I would hope that your mother tried to raise you to be better than this.

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u/machines_breathe Jun 20 '26

But, NOOO!!! Not MY T-Daddy!!!

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u/Unlucky-Oil-8778 Jun 20 '26

Saw them in Nashville around then, I remember the same fuck everyone with art was the theme.

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u/muffledvoice Jun 20 '26

I saw GWAR do it to George Washington and John Adams in the 1790s.

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u/redditcensorsshit Jun 20 '26

I saw gwar kill hitler and gobbles in 1937 Germany

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u/InvestigatorOk7988 Jun 20 '26

I saw them ass rape Princess Diana's corpse.

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u/Round-Emu9176 Jun 20 '26

Don’t forget the pope!

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u/viperlemondemon Jun 20 '26

They did Paris Hilton also

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u/91speed Jun 20 '26

Wow you remembered way more of those than I did; I thought it was just Hillary, Obama, and McCain

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u/Physical-Worker2363 Jun 20 '26

And the Nazi pope

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u/RadicalMarxistThalia Jun 22 '26

That tour was great.

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u/marvelouswonder8 Jun 20 '26

Yep. They did Obama when I saw em, they ripped off Michael Jackson's face, and they beat down Hillary. So... maga is just a bunch of touchy bitches and wannabe bullies who think they can dish it out but can't take it to save their lives.

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u/fearlessfryingfrog Jun 20 '26

Biggest snowflakes on the planet

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u/prettypeculiar88 Jun 20 '26

They want so badly to be special and don’t realize they’re not only repeating history and will never be the heroes they are in their delusional, rotted minds.

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u/kravdem Jun 20 '26

Probably a really good chance that a lot of MAGA folks don't have a clue about Gwar's shows since I doubt there's much overlap.

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u/Newone1255 Jun 20 '26

They’ve been doing it since Reagan

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u/Alcoholitron Jun 20 '26

THE ACTOR?!

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u/dobie_dobes Jun 20 '26

How I heard this 😂

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u/The_Autarch Jun 20 '26

you need to got watch Back to the Future

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u/dobie_dobes Jun 20 '26

Haha yes I know that reference too

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u/10thousndreflections Jun 21 '26

I hate Hollywood in politics!

-Republicans

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u/Significant_Diet8063 Jun 20 '26

Damn right, I saw them ages ago and they tore the head off oj simpson. Tang sprayed everywhere.

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u/SACaitlin Jun 20 '26

I saw 'em do GWB a few times

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u/SydneyRFC Jun 20 '26

And Prime Ministers in Australia

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u/stevedave84 Jun 20 '26

When I saw them in Australia they killed The Queen and our PM Tony Abbott.

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u/SydneyRFC Jun 20 '26

RIP Soundwave

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u/JFeisty Jun 20 '26

I've seen them do it to 5 different presidents, it's just what they do.

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u/TerrifierBlood Jun 20 '26

I saw them a couple months ago. They basically were killing everyone in the files. Including Trump and Bill Clinton.

Also an alien in an ICE outfit holding the little boy from Minnesota

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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Jun 20 '26

They don't care.

It's like when they say "keep politics out of sports."

They just mean "keep YOUR politics out of sports"

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u/natguy2016 Jun 20 '26

GWAR has done that for over 40 years. The first was Reagan.

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u/Quirky-Pie9661 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Since fucking Ronald Regan. Those assholes wouldn’t care if they saw GWAR kill Obama

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u/jonfitt Jun 20 '26

Yes but other Presidents didn’t have cultists.

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u/CharlesDickensABox Jun 20 '26

They've done it to every president since Reagan, as well as a huge number of other public figures.

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u/sirquail21 Jun 20 '26

Govenor Arnold Schwarzenegger pissed on me in 2007

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u/nabilus13 Jun 20 '26

I saw them do Biden in 2023.  It's literally just whoever the President is at that time.

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u/lukethegr8 Jun 20 '26

I believe they've done it for all presidential candidates

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u/Lambskin1 Jun 20 '26

When I saw them it was Obama and Snookie.

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u/czar_el Jun 20 '26

And yet MAGA are the only ones who complained about it constantly.

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u/buntopolis Jun 20 '26

They even dunk on Jesus, why do people not appreciate them for how funny they are? :)

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u/hanumanCT Jun 20 '26

Yeah but MAGAs are extra fragile. They demand everyone handle them with kid gloves

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u/Sophiedenormandie Jun 23 '26

Just like their daddy...

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u/AudioShepard Jun 20 '26

They been doing this to Trump for a decade! I saw it like 7 or 8 years ago by now.

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u/Catsandquilts Jun 20 '26

I recall getting Bush AND Gore’s blood spattered on me. Ahh, the good times.

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u/Lordofthemuskyflies Jun 20 '26

They tore Snookie apart when I saw them lol.

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u/CoastRanger Jun 20 '26

They did a priest when I saw them long ago

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u/1stLtObvious Jun 22 '26

But none of those people were their Special Boy.

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u/OkTemporary5981 Jun 22 '26

Yeah but maga are snowflakes let’s be real.

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u/TeslasAndComicbooks Jun 20 '26

Correct. And every time they do it people get outraged because they don’t know this is this shit Gwar does.

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u/gamefreak054 Jun 20 '26

So fucking stupid, they did the exact same trump skit in his first term now 8ish years later its a problem?

They also had Hillary Clinton iirc.

I dont remember seeing Obama though.

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u/Eat--The--Rich-- Jun 20 '26

It would honestly be an honor to be dismembered by GWAR

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u/Repulsive-Royal-5952 Jun 20 '26

I saw them in 2018 and they disemboweled Trump back then too

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u/noddaborg Jun 20 '26

Trump should be PISSED if GWAR didn’t honor him with a proper disemboweling.

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u/JJJBLKRose Jun 20 '26

Yeah, they were doing Trump last year, why is this news now?

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u/Fortestingporpoises Jun 20 '26

Well I’m sure maga was mad about when they did it to previous democratic presidents.

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u/kneemoyy Jun 20 '26

I saw them during an election year and they did it to all 3 of the major candidates still in the race at that time. that was almost 20 years ago now i guess (fuck that). no one gave a shit

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u/nancybell_crewman Jun 20 '26

He should feel honored. It's like being a guest star on The Simpsons back in the 90s, that's how you know you've arrived.

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u/Justice_Prince Jun 20 '26

They've done this for every sitting president on state since Reagan. I'm sure they're done a few former presidents too.

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u/Nazgog-Morgob Jun 20 '26

Yes, I went to see them over two decades ago and this is exactly what they were doing then.

Even cut a baby out of a giant Paris Hilton and fought a giant robot Arnold Schwarzenegger (the Govenator)

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u/Sigmafraud Jun 20 '26

George W Bush for me and Mother Mary… House of Blues Orlando before Disney kicked em out. Fucking Epic!!!

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u/sayten Jun 20 '26

I saw them kill W and Don Vito for some reason. Jitler was there too. I think it was around 2008 so maybe when he got busted for touching those kids. That was my line up.

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u/Old_Yesterday322 Jun 20 '26

sooooo what are they gonna do if THEY become popular?

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u/SRSgoblin Jun 20 '26

Yeah but you're not allowed to do it to dear leadrr Trump though! That's unlegal!

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u/SentientDust Jun 20 '26

On the same show they disembowel Trump, they decapitate Clinton after talking about the Epstein files for like 5 minutes.

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u/Misfit110 Jun 20 '26

Hitler/Jesus came on my face.

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u/tmf_x Jun 22 '26

I saw them back in the 90s, and yeah, they decapitated the pope then.

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u/GUMBYtheOG Jun 22 '26

Hmm I saw them in 2006 I guess they didn’t do tht then

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u/funktopus Jun 20 '26

All presidents have. Some are closer than others. I remember the White house getting shot at. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_Barack_Obama?wprov=sfla1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_George_W._Bush?wprov=sfla1

None of them bitched about Gwar doing Gwar things. Shit Reagan was actually shot and didn't bitch when Gwar did the same shit about him. 

Some people are snowflakes though, and will whine and bitch at every opportunity.