Dropkick Murphys’ main man Ken Casey says the punk band “broke up” with Elon Musk lengthy earlier than rumors began to swirl that the group’s X account acquired suspended as a result of the singer known as out a concertgoer flaunting a MAGA hat.
The Boston native can be standing agency in his arduous stance that Donald Trump is a traitor, labeling the president a “rat” and a “coward.”
Widespread hypothesis sparked throughout social media after the weekend when individuals on X, a Musk-owned platform previously often called Twitter, observed a “@dropkickmurphys” account had been suspended.
A number of information shops had additionally reported in regards to the suspension being linked to Casey’s interplay with a concertgoer waving round a Make America Nice Once more hat throughout a Sunday night time present at MGM Music Corridor at Fenway.
Casey clarified in an announcement Tuesday that the account shouldn’t be his band’s, and that his iconic Celtic punk group has been off X since Musk took it over in 2022.
“We broke up with him first,” Casey mentioned of Musk. “We quit Twitter in 2022 when he was only half a Nazi.”
“Then someone else took our handle, pretending to be our official account,” he added, “so we filed a legal complaint to put a stop to that — which is why @dropkickmurphys shows as suspended. Look, we pulled our account because we didn’t want to be part of that guy’s empire. But if we were still on there, I’m sure he would have suspended us by now.”
Clips of Casey calling out the attendee with the MAGA hat on the present have gone viral.
Casey started the interplay by describing totally different kinds of MAGA hats as a “Chinese (expletive) red” one, the “black on black Elon Musk true Nazi edition,” and “then my man here, he’s getting ready for summer with a nice (expletive) light white one.”
“Listen, I admire your dedication,” Casey informed the concertgoer, “but I will ask everyone: If you’re in a room full of people, and you want to know who is in a cult, how do you know who is in a cult? They’ve been holding up a (expletive) hat the whole night to represent a president. This is America, there’s no kings here.”
“Anyway, do you mind, sir? We’re going to play a song about our grandparents and people who fought Nazis in the war and (expletive),” Casey added. “So, if you can shut the (expletive) up for five minutes.”
The Massachusetts GOP says Casey’s interplay with the concertgoer is “yet another example of an out-of-touch celebrity who lives a charmed life, completely insulated from the consequences of the policies they champion.”
“When you’re that rich and famous, politics doesn’t affect you the way it does everyday Americans,” GOP spokesperson Logan Trupiano mentioned in an announcement Tuesday. “Surrounded by yes-men, these celebrities feel entitled to insult and demean millions of hardworking people simply for holding different political views.”
That is the newest interplay during which Casey has known as out a concertgoer sporting Trump gear at one of many band’s gigs.
Simply weeks after Trump regained workplace in January, Casey made a “friendly” $100 wager with a person sporting a Trump shirt and hat on realizing the place the MAGA merchandise was manufactured, in line with reviews.
Casey revealed the shirt was made in Nicaragua. “He’s taking the shirt off. We’re taking crime off the streets,” the musician joked throughout a February present in Clearwater, Fla.
Casey doubled down on his dislike for the Trump administration throughout an interview with MeidasTouch on Monday, saying the president is the “exact opposite of everything we sing about.”
“He’s turned on his friends,” Casey mentioned of Trump. “He’s turned on America’s friends and our allies. He’s a rat and a coward when you think of it that way.”
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