"But he couldn’t get past his public facing, ‘I don’t take sides.’”

So, is he so thick as to not realise that by saying this, he has definitely taken a side, the side of the vicious little, apartheid, genocidal state of hate?
Doubt it, he just doesn't give a fuck so long as he can get the adulation of his fans and rake in the filthy lucre.
Shame on him.