Madonna: “I’ve thought about blowing up the White House”

Madonna caused a stir at yesterday’s Women’s March with an impassioned speech that didn’t hold back in expressing her displeasure at the United States’ new President taking office.

The Queen of Pop dropped a series of F-bombs in front of an estimated crowd of 500,000 in Washington, which included FCC chief Ajit Pai, prompting networks CNN and MSNBC to cut away from the live feed: “To our detractors that insist this march will never add up to anything, fuck you. Fuck you.”

She also made allusions to blowing up the White House – a comment that has reportedly prompted the Secret Service into opening an investigation into the singer: “Yes, I’m angry. Yes, I’m outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House. But I know this won’t change anything. We cannot fall into despair.”

Madonna later clarified her remarks in an Instagram post, saying: “I am not a violent person, I do not promote violence and it’s important people hear and understand my speech in its entirety rather than one phrase taken entirely out of context.”

Yesterday’s Rally. was an amazing and beautiful experience. I came and performed Express Yourself and thats exactly what i did. However I want to clarify some very important things. I am not a violent person, I do not promote violence and it’s important people hear and understand my speech in it’s entirety rather than one phrase taken wildly out of context. My speech began with ” I want to start a revolution of love.” ♥️ I then go on to take this opportunity to encourage women and all marginalized people to not fall into despair but rather to come together and use it as a starting point for unity and to create positive change in the world. I spoke in metaphor and I shared two ways of looking at things — one was to be hopeful, and one was to feel anger and outrage, which I have personally felt. However, I know that acting out of anger doesn’t solve anything. And the only way to change things for the better is to do it with love. It was truly an honor to be part of an audience chanting “we choose love”. ????♥️????♥️????♥️????♥️???? #revoltutionoflove♥️#revolutionoflove♥️*******************************************************

A photo posted by Madonna (@madonna) on Jan 22, 2017 at 10:49am PST