Paramore’s Hayley Williams lashes out at Donald Trump throughout iHeartRadio Pageant set

Paramore’s Hayley Williams has lashed out at Donald Trump in the course of the band’s set on the iHeartRadio Music Pageant – try the footage under.

The group performed a five-song set at Las Vegas’ T-Cell Enviornment on Friday (September 20), and through a efficiency of ‘Large Man, Little Dignity’, Williams seized the second, leaning into the digicam to problem a rallying cry towards the previous president.

“Mission 2025 is Donald Trump’s playbook for controlling and punishing ladies, poor folks, folks of color, and the LGBTQ group,” she mentioned.

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“It's time for all People to band collectively and to lastly defeat the Trump agenda. And the one manner to try this is by confronting him on the polls. Do you wish to stay in a dictatorship? Effectively, present up and vote.”

Williams was wearing an outfit impressed by a Debbie Harry look from 1979 on the competition, and fittingly the band included a snippet of ‘Coronary heart Of Glass’ throughout their set opener ‘Onerous Instances’. The band additionally performed ‘The Solely Exception’, ‘Ain’t It Enjoyable’ and their latest cowl of Speaking Heads’ ‘Burning Down The Home’.

The band’s political intervention got here on the day that Trump, who's combating the 2024 presidential election for the Republicans towards Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris, shared a pretend picture of his opponent in {a photograph} alongside Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.

Trump has additionally falsely claimed Taylor Swift’s endorsement with a sequence of AI-generated posts, later denying any involvement within the posts’ creation. Swift has subsequently publicly endorsed Harris, resulting in a reported 500 per cent improve in voter registration.

Earlier this week, Williams confirmed that Paramore had begun engaged on their follow-up to 2023’s ‘This Is Why’. The singer revealed the band had recorded some demos that “actually shocked” her, with explicit affect taken from the Bjork-fronted band The Sugarcubes.

She additionally mentioned the potential for one more solo file to comply with up 2020’s ‘Petals For Armor’ and 2021’s ‘Flowers for Vases/Descansos’, saying she “doesn’t really feel completed with that in any respect”.

In different information, Paramore lately mirrored on their time opening for Swift on the ‘Eras’ tour.

“Thanks for asking us to be part of such an unimaginable second in your life and profession,” they mentioned on social media. “We liked enjoying for the Swifties, we liked watching you inform your life story by way of this present. And we really fell in love along with your entire crew. Congrats on yet another leg of this large, historical past making tour. We love you! – Paramore,” learn the picture’s accompanying caption.”

Williams even particularly mentioned that the ‘Eras’ tour had “utterly modified” her relationship with Paramore’s 2009 music ‘The Solely Exception’.