Madonna Says She Predicted the Rise of Trump

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Leave it to the Queen of Pop to be psychic when it comes to matters of the world. Her Rebel Heart tour concert film and live album combo documenting her 2015-2-16 tour shows a very revealing look into the Material Girl.

As she told Entertainment Weekly, “It’s time for me to take a different approach and really get back down to the beauty and simplicity of music and lyrics.”

The tour opened with video footage of Madonna saying, “When those fascist dictators posing as righteous men come for you…. be prepared to fight for what you believe in.” Now, the singer said she’d been witnessing it for a while before.

“The winds were changing, and people were becoming more and more fearful and marginalized,” she said to EW. “I thought we were going backwards on a lot of the progress that we’ve made as the human race. So cut to my Rebel Heart Tour and then the election and then what’s happened in the rest of the world — of course I’m saying I predicted it. I’m sure I’m not the only one. A lot of people have been talking about it and trying to call attention to it. But people just want to hear good news, or they want to be distracted. So yes, I did feel like I was warning people.”

Read the rest of the interview at EW.