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Axl Rose performs onstage at BB&T Center on August 30, 2016 in Sunrise, Florida. (Getty Images) Recently, as the Fourth of July weekend celebrations were due to kick off, Axl Rose had criticized the United States Surgeon General, Dr Jerome Adams, for failing to address whether people should be in close proximity with one another during Independence Day parties. — Axl Rose (@axlrose) July 4, 2020. Guns N’ Roses Explains How Coronavirus Works To The Masses. Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose shared a video explaining how easily the coronavirus particles can spread in a crowded room. Check it out below! How rock n’ roll! Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose is outspoken on Twitter about his political beliefs — and disdain for the Trump presidency, which he’s called “obscene” — and over the holiday weekend. Axl Rose Sparks Twitter Feud With Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin “Unlike this admin I’m not responsible for 70k+ deaths n’ unlike u I don’t hold a fed gov position of responsibility 2. The tweet had Rose trending on Twitter. Twitter “As crazy as 2020 has been, absolutely no one had Mnuchin and Axl Rose fight on twitter on their Bingo card,” one user tweeted.

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The internet has not always been kind to Axl Rose. Right now, though, he’s winning Twitter.

The singer, never known for filtering his opinions, has taken to criticizing the Trump administration on social media, chiming in about the California wildfires, the unauthorized use of Guns N’ Roses songs at Trump rallies, and encouraging followers to vote. Many of his fans are very here for Axl’s political side, calling him #wokeaxl.

Woke Axl knows how to engage his 1.25 million followers—not only does he vote, he votes early and urges his fans to do the same. His profile picture is an adorable French bulldog. There’s a @wokeaxl spoof account. Mr. Rose has arrived.

He also stays on brand. Axl, as he is universally known, almost never types out the word and. Nor does he deign to use an ampersand to save characters. His tweets follow the Guns N’ Roses stylebook, exclusively employing n’ as his conjunction of choice in an impressive display of loyalty to a decades old band name.

The way he talks about women is still a problem. It’s always been a problem. In 1992 he told Rolling Stone, “I’ve been hell on the women in my life, and the women in my life have been hell on me,” simultaneously acknowledging his reputation as a domestic abuser and not taking full responsibility for it.

Calling the first lady a “former hooker” on Twitter isn’t exactly out of character for someone whose most famous album features a song with the lyrics, “Turn around bitch I got a use for you/Besides you ain’t got nothin’ better to do, and I’m bored.” No amount of wishing Twitter followers a “Happy International Women’s Day” can really balance that out.

In another tweet he calls out systemic American racism by posting a video of a mall cop arresting, manhandling, and threatening a 12-year-old African American boy, along with the commentary, “Come do that to me u fuckin’ pussy; I’ll be waitin’.”

Oh, Axl. Yes, it’s very woke to identify and condemn racism. Less effective when you use misogynist, homophobic language to do so. These contradictions–Woke Axl still not exactly conforming to the language and customs of wokeness, and not seeming to even realize it–embody his signature brand of ego-centric contrarianism every bit as much as refusing to spell out the word and.

Axl Rose has always been a ridiculous bundle of contradictions. Let’s not forget that he has written and performed, with gusto, some very ugly lyrics. “One in a Million,” from Guns N’ Roses’ second album is a racist, homophobic dumpster fire that uses the N-word to shock. He also wrote and performed, with gusto, “Civil War,” an anti-war song that contains a quote from the Paul Newman movie Cool Hand Luke, a quote from a Shining Path guerrilla, and Axl’s eerie whistling of the Civil War ditty “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” It also references the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy, and the way the Vietnam War shaped Axl’s view of the country and the government. It’s not “Masters of War,” but it’s a not a dumb song either.

In a 1991 review of the Guns N’ Roses albums Use Your Illusion I and II, Jon Pareles described a band and a body of work that espouses racism, nationalism, and misogyny. He refers to the band’s first album, Appetite for Destruction, as “the epitome of Reagan-era individualism, plus a personal streak of misogyny.” That assessment would easily find a home in a think piece about Trump–the two share a reactionary, easily riled quality.

This may account for the singer’s clear and visceral distaste for the president—even Woke Axl, as delightful as he is, lacks self-awareness, as the very behaviors he calls out in others he himself often displays. The irony of two men whose personal expressions of masculinity are deeply and publicly problematic being locked in a Twitter battle is so very 2018. Woke Axl almost perfectly encapsulates this moment with the strangeness of a man who was once one of the biggest n’ most notoriously wild rock stars in the world, tweeting about forest management.

Axl Rose has triggered a feud with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin after criticizing him through Twitter on Wednesday.

Without providing his followers with any context, or even tagging the government official, the Guns N' Roses frontman called Mnuchin an 'a--hole.'

'It’s official! Whatever anyone may have previously thought of Steve Mnuchin, he’s officially an a--hole,' Rose wrote on the popular social media platform.

Less than two hours later, Mnuchin, 57, unexpectedly fired back at the Welcome to the Jungle singer, asking 'What have you done for the country lately?'

Pretty hilarious to call out Axl Rose’s American patriotism and then ADD THE WRONG FLAG pic.twitter.com/6Fc7fSSgfb

— Corbin Reiff (@CorbinReiff) May 7, 2020

Mnuchin quickly deleted his tweet and reposted it moments later after accidentally including a Liberian flag emoji rather than one of the U.S. flag — the two bear a striking resemblance as a result of the usage of red and white stripes.

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A seemingly even-more fired up Rose came back at Mnuchin with a sarcastic remark pertaining to his error.

'My bad, I didn't get [that] we're hoping [to] emulate Liberia's economic model,' he wrote.

The 58-year-old musician continued, providing a bit of insight into his initial denunciation of Mnuchin.

My bad I didn’t get we’re hoping 2 emulate Liberia’s economic model but on the real unlike this admin I’m not responsible for 70k+ deaths n’ unlike u I don’t hold a fed gov position of responsibility 2 the American people n’ go on TV tellin them 2 travel the US during a pandemic.

— Axl Rose (@axlrose) May 7, 2020

He said: 'But on the real, unlike this admin, I’m not responsible for 70K+ deaths, [and] unlike [you], I don’t hold a [federal government] position of responsibility [to] the American people [and] go on TV tellin' them [to] travel the U.S. during a pandemic.'

Rose was seemingly referring to an interview Fox Business conducted with Mnuchin on Monday, where he suggested that now — in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic — might be a good time for U.S. citizens to travel internally.

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“This is a great time for people to explore America,” Mnuchin claimed to host Maria Bartiromo.

“A lot of people haven’t seen many parts of America. I wish I could get back on the road soon,' he added.

When asked his thoughts about the possibility of international travel returning within 2020, Mnuchin said it was “too hard to tell at this point.”

'Our priority is opening the domestic economy,' he added. 'We're looking to all get back to business.'

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As of this writing, Mnuchin has not responded to Rose's most recent remarks.

Meanwhile, some Guns N' Roses fans have been having a bit of fun poking fun at the government official.

Axl Rose at Steve Mnuchin’s funeral: pic.twitter.com/JyKWpzARK1

Axle Rose 2020

— Scott (@swcville) May 7, 2020

There is a 100% chance America would be better off with Axl Rose as Secretary of the Treasury, Slash as Secretary of State and Duff McKagan as Secretary of Commerce instead of Steve Mnuchin, Mike Pompeo and Wilbur Ross https://t.co/MLhYAkAEzx

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) May 7, 2020

He brought Chinese Democracy to the world.

— Brian Mitchell (@AntigothTCO) May 7, 2020

Watch Axl bring him to his

Axl Rose Twitter Page

Sh n n n n n n n n n n n knees!

— Ben Still-hurt (@davidsedano) May 7, 2020

Appetite For Destruction brought better long term effects to society than anything you've ever done, Steve.

— Ragnell (@Ragnell) May 7, 2020

Another user even took aim at the Trump administration altogether.

They tweeted: 'I know you two are fighting but you do have something in common. Axl Rose had a great album, Appetite for Destruction, while Steve Mnuchin is feeding Trump’s appetite for destruction of America.'