In a new interview with Rocking With Jam Man, GWAR frontman Mike 'Blöthar The Berserker' Bishop addressed the backlash he and his bandmates received for gutting a President Donald Trump dummy while onstage at Riot Fest in Chicago last September.

Footage from the concert showed a performer dressed as Trump being theatrically attacked on stage, a hallmark of GWAR's long-standing use of satire, gore and political parody.

While fans praised the act as free expression and protest art, critics called it provocative and offensive, reigniting discussions over the limits of political satire in live performances.

Bishop told Rocking With Jam Man that the biggest backlash came after killing Donald Trump, but noted that GWAR has a history of staging faux executions on stage, including every US president since Reagan, as well as Hillary Clinton, Michael Jackson, Mike Tyson and Jesus Christ.

He also revealed that GWAR is on some lists with the Secret Service.

A representative for GWAR pushed back against criticism in an article in the New York Post, saying 'Normalizing violence? Humans don't need GWAR for that.' This past April, guitarist Mike Derks told The Guardian about receiving death threats over social media after GWAR's Riot Fest skit went viral, but noted that it was scary when people were trying to say: 'Oh, you can't do that.' This is the country where we're supposed to be able to do that.

People were saying we can't do it after we'd been doing it for 40 years.

The band's bassist and frontman has had his own share of controversy as Bishop previously played bass for GWAR during various stints in the 1980s and '90s and replaced Oderus Urungus as the band's frontman in 2014.

The interview with Rocking With Jam Man touches on these points and more, but what becomes clear is that GWAR remains unapologetic and willing to push boundaries.

GWAR faces it all the time.

It's a real fucking thing, said Bishop.

It would be hard to find a public figure GWAR hasn't mockingly killed in the past 40 years.