Kesha Yells ‘F*** You, Donald Trump!’ at Final Tour Stop

Kesha and her backing band the Creepies wrapped up their independent tour this past Saturday, with a relatively low-key, late-afternoon, 40-minute slot at Los Angeles’s Mad Decent Block Party (a touring festival masterminded by EDM guru Diplo’s record label). And during “Tik Tok,” the final song on the final date on her unsubtly titled “F— the World” tour, the always outspoken rabblerouser dropped an especially well-placed F-bomb just for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

(video below obviously contains profanity)

This wasn’t Kesha’s first attack on Trump this week. Last Thursday, Kesha took to Instagram to defend former Miss Universe Alicia Machado (who was fat-shamed by Trump in the late ‘90s), writing: “I want to give my support and respect to you, Alicia. You did not deserve to be shamed by this monster. Your body is NO ONE else’s business. Donald Trump said that your body or weight was an issue (which makes me so sad and just sick). but, I find the real problem here being his bloated, arrogant ego and offensive, racist, misogynist verbal diarrhea. he is a bully. WORDS mean something, and can be extremely hurtful and dangerous. They stay deep inside you and can affect your emotional and mental health. I know this from personal experience. They are hard, and sometimes impossible, to ever forget. please don’t let him get to you any longer, instead realize that you are a strong woman and a beautiful role model for standing up and telling the truth, even if it hurts to remember it.”

Kesha did not call out her other nemesis, Sony’s Dr. Luke, by name onstage Saturday, but she did mention her “lawsuit from hell.” (In October 2014, Kesha sued Dr. Luke, claiming sexual assault and battery, sexual harassment, gender violence, civil harassment, violation of California’s unfair business laws, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and negligent retention and supervision. The majority of her claims were dismissed in April of this year.) “Somebody thought I would just lie down and take it — I would just sit around waiting to die,” Kesha shouted to the small but supportive crowd. “That somebody f—ed with the wrong woman!”

Kesha’s L.A. show eschewed the recent radical reworkings of her original material and Bob Dylan, Iggy Pop, and Dolly Parton covers that she’d been doing on this current tour; instead, she played a messy, ramshackle set of danceable party hits more in line with Mad Decent’s festival vibe. This was disappointing, considering that her understated “It Ain’t Me, Baby” performance at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards and “True Colors” collaboration with Zedd, which she debuted at Coachella this year, were such stunners and made such grand emotional statements. But clearly, Kesha’s fighting spirit was still intact.