Legendary Queen drummer Roger Taylor released a new solo single, which appears to slam US President Donald Trump. The song, entitled Chumps, was released quietly on streaming services without any fanfare on Monday February 2 along with a lyric video featuring a simple black background with white text. Sharing it on his own social media, the iconic musician simply remarked: “Gotta say something.”

While he hasn’t confirmed specifically who the song is aimed at, the track sees him singing about “a man of no morality, of no real quality, a shallow man” and calling out “a man devoid of empathy, no trace of sympathy, of endless vanity,” and one with “no humanity” and “no trace of sanity”. The song continues: “We’re drowning in your self-regard. We’re drowning in your lies. We drown in your pomposity, in your atrocities. We drown.” It ends with: “You men of no morality. Your popularity, an endless mystery.”

Roger is no stranger to infusing politics into his music. In 2019, he released a track called Gangsters Are Running The World.

Meanwhile, his 1994 album Happiness included the track Dear Mr Murdoch, which, as the title suggests, was an attack on media mogul Rupert Murdoch. That album also included the single Nazis 1994, a song railing against the rising tide of neo-Nazism.

The band last toured the territory with frontman Adam Lambert in 2020, but it appears that is the last time US fans will see them for a while.

He told Daily Mail’s Richard Eden: “America is a dangerous place at the moment, so you have to take that into account.

“It’s very sad because I feel like Queen grew up in America and we love it, but it’s not what it was.”

In a further stark comment about the US, Brian claimed: “Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment.”