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U.S. DJ and songwriter Moby has joined the long list of global celebrities protesting against the election of U.S. President Donald J. Trump.

And the video for his latest song “Erupt and Matter,” includes footage from Ukraine’s EuroMaidan Revolution of 2013-14 that drove President Viktor Yanukovych from power.

The video, released just a day before Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, features video of prominent politicians, including Trump, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, and Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. It also includes shots of right-wing European politicians Nigel Farage from the UK and Geert Wilders from the Netherlands.

Moby rose to fame in the early 1990s and has sold over 20 million albums worldwide. He attracted fans with his electronic dance music work.

In the latest video, images of the politicians are juxtaposed with protests, some of which involve violence, and with the lyrics of the song superimposed over them.

The new video to Moby’s song “Erupt and Matter” features some powerful footage from protests around the world, including Euromaidan.

“We believed your words, but now we see you just don’t mean a thing… Your power reign was sick and wrong, your time is gone,” the lyrics read. The song also continuously repeats the phrase “We don’t trust you anymore.”

“Erupt and Matter,” credited to Moby and The Void Pacific Choir, is a track from Moby’s album “These Systems Are Failing,” released last year.

Moby wrote in the video description that “the racist & antiquated far right are encroaching upon democratic freedoms in almost every country in the Western world. We need to respond by protesting, supporting progressives, and most important: VOTING.”

The video’s footage shows Bankova Street riots in December 2013 during the EuroMaidan Revolution, confrontations that erupted in response to a violent police crackdown on EuroMaidan’s peaceful protesters and journalists on Nov. 30. There are also shots of the January 2014 Hrushevskoho Street riots, when violent clashes between the police and the protesters included the deaths of three protesters — the first of 100 or so to be killed before Yanukovych fled power.

YouTube users commented that Russian President Vladimir Putin should have been featured.

This is not the first time Moby has criticized Trump, who he says is “seriously broken inside” and an “actual sociopath.” On Jan. 9, the DJ announced he had been invited to one of Trump’s inauguration balls.

“I guess I’d DJ at an inaugural ball if as payment #trump released his tax returns… So #trump what do you think, I DJ for you and you release your tax returns?” Moby wrote on the Instagram social media site.

Trump, meanwhile, has adamantly refused to release his tax returns, saying Americans don’t care.