In March 2016, Pilger commented in a speech delivered at the University of Sydney during the 2016 United States presidential election, that Donald Trump was a less dangerous potential President of the United States than Hillary Clinton.

According to Pilger, The Guardian had published “drivel” in covering the claims “that the Russians conspired with Trump”. Such assertions, he wrote, are "reminiscent of the far-right smearing of John Kennedy as a ‘Soviet agent’

In an article in The Guardian, John Pilger wrote in May 2014 that Vladimir Putin “is the only leader to condemn the rise of fascism in 21st-century Europe”.

So he died a batshit insane tankie, supporting Trump, Russia, and China. Good riddance from the sounds of it.