John Waters Previews Valentine's Day Show, Offers Take On Trump

John Waters was in studio this morning to preview his Valentine's Day show and offer his take on the state of national politics.

The "Pope of Trash" will be at Baltimore Soundstage next Thursday for his stand-up show, "A Date with John Waters."

"I'm going to tell you about love," Waters told Anne Kramer. "I'm going to tell you what to do, what to give people for a Valentine's present, what not to do. I don't give anybody candy. I got dosed once by a fan."

The filmmaker, 72, with a taste for the tasteless actually has quite the soft spot for Valentine's Day.

"It's a scary day for a lot of people because they either feel lonely or they're going to make the wrong thing or they go overboard with it, you demand a reaction," Waters said. "It's a scary day, it's a massacre for a lot of people."

How he used to celebrate, of course, is more on-brand. He would go to a local butcher and get a chicken heart or some other kind of animal heart, gift-wrap it and give it to a man he liked.

"They always seemed to like it and took their clothes off," Waters said.

Though he hasn't released a new film since 2004's "A Dirty Shame,"--he's been paid to write two films that were never made--Waters is keeping busy. He just got back from Columbus, Ohio, the second stop for the exhibit of his photography that recently concluded its stay at the Baltimore Museum of Art. His transgressive work rubs some the wrong way.

"Coming to see me as a first date is tricky. You're either I've met people that got married after they saw 'Pink Flamingos' for the first time and I've met people that never spoke again," Waters said.

Waters was also asked for his take on the State of the Union.

"We're in a civil war and I don't believe anything he said about trying to negotiate in anything because he's not very good at that and I can't help looking at him," Waters said. "He now looks like a white James Brown impersonator and I believe he'll go down as the worst president we've ever had in history."

He said he worries about fractures among Democrats and urged people to listen. Even in Baltimore, he said that too many people are staying within their own neighborhoods.

"Everybody's afraid to leave their safe zone," Waters said.

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