Chris Jordan

Asbury Park (N.J.) Press

Sure, Donald Trump built a real estate empire. But George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic has built an empire of funk and he has this to say: "No funk in da’ Trump."

Clinton, the musical impresario who founded P-Funk in a barbershop in Plainfield, N.J., supports Hillary Clinton (no relation!) for president and is strong in his opposition to Trump.

“He couldn’t possibly be in there (the White House), beyond no circumstances, I don’t care,” Clinton said. “I’m for her and that’s just cut and dry. You have to say something about that and he ain’t qualified for that, he’s just no way.”

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Clinton stressed the importance of getting out to vote.

“Even if you if you don’t want to vote, it ain’t more twisted than that,” Clinton said. "You have to get (blanked) off at this point"

George Clinton decided to voice his support for Hillary Clinton and his opposition to Trump after the tape from a 2005 Access Hollywood broadcast became public where Trump lewdly referenced grabbing women by their private parts.

“In hip-hop, the art is how hard you can go as a concept, with ‘your mother’ being about the worst you can (say),” Clinton said. “I never heard that one (grabbing a woman’s privates).”

“If you can’t see that’s wrong, maybe you’re too close to it.”

George Clinton became involved in the election talk in a circuitous way. A satire column earlier this month in the New Yorker by Andy Borowitz portrayed Donald Trump attacking George Clinton with a series of P-Funk references. Some Clinton fans thought it was real. Since then, he's sold "No funk in da’ Trump" T-shirts.

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George Clinton has never met either Trump or Hillary Clinton, but he did play the Youth Ball at the first Bill Clinton inauguration. Bill Clinton walked on stage during a P-Funk rendition of I Call My Baby Pussycat, according to George Clinton’s autobiography, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir. Later, he meet Chelsea Clinton after a concert. She wanted to have a food fight.

“It was on my birthday,” Clinton said.

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