© Mike Coppola / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFPEddie Vedder of Pearl Jam.
The image by bassist Jeff Ament and illustrator Bobby Brown was used as promotional material for Pearl Jam's gig at Grizzly-Washington Stadium, Montana on Monday.
The event was a benefit to urge fans to get out and vote in the Montana Senate election in November, with Ament known to be a firm supporter of current Democratic Senator Jon Tester. The band is currently fundraising for Tester's reelection.
The eye-catching image has sparked a flood of reaction with many taking umbrage with the depiction of a destroyed Washington, DC and a dead US president.
Montana State Senate Republican candidate Matt Rosendale is one of the objectors to take aim at Pearl Jam by describing the concert poster as "disgusting". He has called for rival Tester to denounce the "blatant display of extremism".
Responding online to the poster, some fans even said they would be boycotting the band's music as a result of the controversial artwork. Pearl Jam and Tester have yet to comment on the illustration.
So disappointed with this. It's almost impossible to go a week without listening to your music but that all ends tonight. This is pathetic and I choose America and MY President over you. Should have stuck to music. Sickening. As many have said, that's it for me, no longer a fan.
- John Watson (@nu1ncaa) August 15, 2018 [original tweet deleted]
It isn't the first time Trump has been depicted as dead since he was elected president. In May last year comedian Kathy Griffin took part in a gory photoshoot where she posed with a decapitated mock-up of his head. The images prompted the Secret Service to say that it was investigating the matter. Griffin later removed the images from her social accounts and issued an apology.
"Whose cliche nature was already the subject of mockery 20 years ago".
More like thirty.
Of course, all of this kind of thing acts in Trump's favour, 'cause it's always the people that are obviously shit who rail against him most.