Queen’s legendary guitarist, Sir Brian May, has described the situation as “very sad” as he made a major announcement regarding any future tours. He suggested that Queen, who last toured with frontma Adam Lambert in 2020, may avoid a beloved destination on their next tour because it is too “dangerous.”

Brian, who co-founded the band alongside the late Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor, detailed how the Bohemian Rhapsody hitmakers “grew up” in the US, but claimed it was no longer “what it was”. Indeed, in apparent reference to the US under the controversial Donald Trump-led administration, Brian described the nation as a “dangerous place” that must be taken “into account.”

He told The 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 alleged: “Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment.”

Since Trump’s second inauguration as the 47th president of the United States in January 2025, the administration has been embroiled in controversy, particularly concerning the actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE.

In a bid to crack down on illegal immigration, Trump expanded the agency and its budget, with arrests reportedly doubling, detention rates rising, and border crossings falling.

However, ICE’s actions have also prompted protests in major cities, with tensions escalating since the deployment of 2,000 ICE agents to Minneapolis and the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

It wouldn’t be the first time that politics has influenced Queen’s touring schedule. Only this month, Brian said that Queen would never perform at Glastonbury due to political differences with the organisers, the Eavis family.

A prominent animal rights activist, Brian told the Daily Mail: ” I wouldn’t do Glastonbury next year because of the politics of the people who run it. Unless that changes, I won’t do it.”

He added: “They like killing badgers, and they think it’s for sport, and that’s something I cannot support because we’ve been trying to save these badgers for years, and they are still being killed. So that’s the reason we’re missing out on it.”

Regarding Brian’s stance on the culling of badgers—a practice reportedly aimed at tackling bovine tuberculosis—festival founder and dairy farmer Sir Michael Eavis called the guitarist a “danger to farming.”

Brian was also asked whether Queen had repeatedly declined to play the festival, to which he replied: “I don’t think the conversation of us doing has ever taken place because they know how I feel.”