Billy Joel decided to finally break his silence on Donald Trump when he heard the president call neo-Nazis “fine people,” he revealed in the new HBO documentary Joel says in the doc’s second installment, airing Friday night on HBO, that he was “angry” to hear the president’s response to 2017’s white supremacist Unite the Right rally, where one person died and several were injured. “Here they are marching through an American city saying, ‘Jews will not replace us.’ We fought a war to defeat these people!” adds Joel, who is Jewish. “And when Trump comes out and says, ‘There were very fine people on both sides…He should’ve come out and said, ‘Those are bad people.’ There is no qualifying it. The Nazis are not good people. Period.” The Grammy-winning musician was so angered by the comments that he took his first ever political stance onstage—by simply wearing a Star of David on his coat as he performed at his Madison Square Garden concert weeks later. (…) “I’ve never liked getting political onstage,” he says, “People want to get away from a lot of that stuff, I realized that.” But the Nazi comments were more than he could take, he explains, since “sometimes there are things that happen and you can’t just look away.”
via daily beast: Billy Joel Reveals Moment He Couldn’t Stay Silent on Trump Anymore