Reagan's assassin, John Hinckley, failed, I am the victim of the cancellation culture "
Sites may not be afraid of "controversy", explains Hinckley.
After his next concert was canceled, folk singer John Hinckley Jr. claims that he is the victim of cancel culture . To his 36,000 YouTube subscribers, Hinckley is creative, but for the masses as a whole, he is widely known as president Ronald Reagan 's Assassin stranded . The incidents of March 30, 1981 still haunt Hinckley, who claims to have left a permanent spot in his musical career.
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"They reserve me and then the show is announced, then the place begins to get backlash," said Hinckley in a New York Post interview. At this point, Hinckley said he is no longer "angry" by the bad news because "the owners have always given way".
"They cancel. It happened so many times, it's a bit like what I expect," he said.
Hinckley was initially to perform on March 30 at the Huxley Hotel in Connecticut, but its whole has since been canceled. Huxley Hotel Alerted news fans Via an Instagram publication, writing: "You guessed it: postponed until further notice (they kill us here.)"
Although some were disappointed, many users have shaded with the decision of the place to even welcome Hinckley in the first place.
"No, really. Imagine this, a guy who tried to murder a president ... can't have a concert. Crazy," wrote a person on the post.
"Close the dumping ground! What slap in the face! Not in our community!" bed a comment On the announcement of the original concert. "Support a guy who tried to release an American president! Think of that for a minute," said another. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
As for the reasons why his concerts continue to be canceled, Hinckley said to New York Post It's quite obvious: "The owners do not want controversy." It is not only in Connecticut; He had canned shows in New York, Georgia, Chicago and Virginia.
"I think that's right to say: I am a victim of canceling culture," said Hinckley. "It continues to happen again and again."
On X, he doubled his beliefs. "With all my canceled concerts, this is a just declaration to say that I am the victim of the culture to cancel!" he wrote .
Hinckley spent 34 years in a Washington psychiatric hospital, D.C., after shooting and injured Reagan, press secretary of the White House James Brady . Tom Delahanty and secret service agent Tim McCarthy , according to the Virginia-Locale television station TV-TV Wavy . He was deemed not guilty due to madness.
"I was a confused and confused 25-year-old player," Hinckley told Wavy-TV of the assassination attempt. "I exceeded and left the university. I was isolated from my family, isolated from God; I lived alone and I did not manage at all."
"I always thought he was a great man," said Hinckley. "It was just a delusional thing that I had in my head that led me to President Reagan." The attack was also fed by Hinckley's growing obsession for the actor Jodie Foster and its role in the years 1976 Taxi driver .
"I'm really sorry, I have huge remorse for what I did in 1981," said Hinckley.