TWISTED SISTER singer Dee Snider has told CBC Radio in a new interview that he is reconsidering his decision to allow Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to use the band’s signature anthem “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as the “exit song” at the controversial politician’s recent campaign stops.  According to blabbermouth.net Snider — who knows Trump personally after appearing more than once on “The Celebrity Apprentice” — said: “Donald called me… We’re friends… He called me months ago and asked me if he could use it. I said, ‘Look, this is not an endorsement. And I don’t see eye to eye with you on everything. We agree on many things’ — I said — ‘but the song was written about rebellion, about shaking things up, about defying authority’ — I said — ‘and you certainly do that; you and Bernie Sanders.’ So I said, ‘I’m cool with that. But it’s not an endorsement.’ That was months ago now.”

He continued: “Look, we all have friends who we love, we hang with, we can vacation with, we party with, but we don’t talk abour religion, we don’t talk about politics, we don’t talk about sports, because we know that could be the end of our relationships. And that’s with a lot of my close friends. I love them very much.

“What’s going on now really has me questioning allowing the song to continue to be used, and it’s very upsetting to me, ’cause I strongly don’t agree with his extremist positions. And it’s not so much… I know the man’s not a racist — he’s a friend of mine — but when you’ve got white supremacy groups aligning themselves with you and you don’t denounce them…? You don’t say, ‘Wait a minute. I’m proposing this, but I’m not with these people here,’ and draw some clarity. That’s a problem for me. And I’m really sort of coming to the end of my road here with this.”

Snider added: “I have to call Donald. I have to speak to him, as a friend. He was respectful enough to call me and say, ‘How do you feel about me using this?’ And I’ve gotta be — as a friend — respectful enough to call him and say, ‘Listen, man, this has gotten wildly out of control, and I really have a problem with it.’ As so many people have… His own party are… people are just distancing themselves. It’s really gotten ugly.”