[citation needed] In October 2006, during a party celebrating the new Swedish embassy in Washington, D.C., The Ark was performing on stage.

[1] This caused controversy as many newspapers reported that Salo had "wished an airplane to crash into the White House".

Salo later said that it was a bad joke, "totally unserious way of being cheeky toward the White House" and not a political statement.

[5] In 2008, Salo translated Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar into Swedish for a performance in Malmö where he played the role of Jesus, and as a result he stated that "2008 will be a very quiet year" for The Ark[6] after a hectic 2007 with the Eurovision Song Contest of that year and the release of Prayer for the Weekend.

In 2019, Salo opened his headline residency It takes a fool to remain sane in the Rondo of Liseberg amusement Park, in Gothenburg, directed by Edward af Sillén.