Brian Eno has clarified his thoughts on Donald Trump’s election in a new Facebook post, addressing the comments he gave in an interview with the Guardian in which he said he was “pleased” with the results of the election “because it gives us a kick up the arse.” In the statement, he calls Trump “a complete disaster,” before saying, “That said, what I think is an even greater disaster is that we in the US and the UK - and increasingly the rest of the world - live inside political systems that can produce absurd results like these.”

Eno continues, “My hope—the only hope really—is that Trump in office will reveal himself for what he really is, and that the public will roundly and unequivocally reject him and everything he stands for - his terrible policies, his jingoism, his arrogance, his childishness, his lies, his prejudices and his small-mindedness. In rejecting Trump we’ll also start to take down the whole malignant media-political structure that so lovingly nurtured him.” Read the full note below.