Pop singer Lana Del Rey’s fans have responded to the news of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. A gunman fired shots from a building near the stage, grazing Trump’s ear and killing a member of the audience and the assailant. The singer has been a vocal critic of Trump, previously describing him as a reflection of the world’s “greatest problem” of sociopathy and narcissism. She has also been photographed holding a gun in her video for Tough, her collaboration with Quavo.
Several memes circulated online following the shooting, including an article claiming that Lana Del Rey said “I wouldn’t have missed” in response to the attack. However, this story has been fact-checked and determined to be false. Although the account that published it claimed to have a satirical content, the association between the singer and Trump spurred similar images online.
Many of the online references to Lana Del Rey involve her past explorations of Americana and her use of the American flag in her performances, which she dropped in 2017 after the election of Trump. She has also been previously involved in controversies such as recreating the assassination of John F. Kennedy in one of her videos.
Some of the memes reference the time when Lana Del Rey sparked speculation that she had used witchcraft to get rid of Trump, which she confirmed in an interview with NME in 2017. She justified her actions by stating, “I’m in line with Yoko [Ono] and John [Lennon] and the belief that there’s a power to the vibration of a thought.
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