Alice Cooper says Trump won in 2024 because Americans were tired of “wokeness,” calling the political climate under Biden “crazy” and “over the top.”
Alice Cooper, the shock-rock legend better known for his stage theatrics than his political commentary, has weighed in on Donald Trump’s surprising 2024 election victory, blaming what he calls excessive “wokeness” among Democrats for the result.
In a candid new interview with The Times, the 77‑year‑old singer argued that the party’s focus on political correctness had become so extreme that voters ultimately recoiled.
“America has been having a slow‑motion nervous breakdown for a while now,” Cooper observed. “It got so ‘woke’ with the [Joe] Biden people, even they thought it was crazy. If a guy says to a coworker, ‘I like your new dress,’ that means he now gets fired? That’s crazy…”
Cooper went on to say that this backlash was inevitable: “It got so over the top that whoever ran against the Democrats was going to win. America got sick of the stupidness, and all I can say is, in a shooting war, you don’t want a poodle; you want a pitbull.”
His metaphor drew both amusement and criticism online, with fans debating whether the rock icon’s blunt assessment oversimplified the broader political landscape.
The interview also touched on Cooper’s amiable history with Trump.
The rocker—who famously joked in 2018 that a golfing president who claimed never to cheat was lying—clarified his stance: “No, Trump is not the biggest cheat. I can think of a few worse. But if any president who plays golf says he doesn’t cheat, don’t vote for them. I’m not talking about in competition; if you’re playing an everyday game among friends for bragging rights, then everyone cheats, right? But Trump was good. He can play. We got along OK.”
Though Cooper has periodically lampooned politics—running satirical campaigns every four years since 1972 to promote his hit single “Elected”—he insists that he remains “extremely non‑political,” viewing himself primarily as an entertainer.
Yet his recent remarks have reignited debate over the role of celebrities in public discourse, with commentators split between praising his honesty and decrying his “culture‑war” framing.
As Cooper prepares to release his first album with the original Alice Cooper band in over five decades, “The Revenge of Alice Cooper,” his unexpected political intervention adds another chapter to a career defined as much by controversy as by classic rock anthems.
