Throughout a current live performance, in Boston, Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey criticized President Donald J. Trump and X proprietor Elon Musk whereas additionally calling out an attendee who was carrying a white “Make America Nice Once more” hat. In response to footage, shared by the band on-line, Casey referred to as the black model of the “MAGA” hat, worn and popularized by Musk, the “Elon Musk true Nazi version,” whereas additionally suggesting that the president’s supporters are in a “cult.” As well as, he exclaimed, “That is America. There’s no kings right here!”
The incident has led to hypothesis and reporting that Dropkick Murphys have been banned from X on account of Casey’s feedback and broadly left-leaning, anti-Trump political opinions. And, whereas @dropkickmurphys is at the moment suspended from the Musk-owned platform previously generally known as Twitter, the account has really been gone for some time.
“We broke up with [Elon Musk] first,” Ken Casey mentioned in a press release shared with Pitchfork. “We stop Twitter in 2022 when he was solely half a Nazi.”
“Then another person took our deal with, pretending to be our official account, so we filed a authorized criticism to place a cease to that—which is why @dropkickmurphys reveals as suspended,” Casey continued. “Look, we pulled our account as a result of we didn’t need to be a part of that man’s empire. But when we have been nonetheless on there, I’m positive he would have suspended us by now.”
Dropkick Murphys are amongst a swath of musicians to exit X because of the possession of Elon Musk, who has confronted current criticism for, amongst different issues, making a gesture at a Trump inauguration occasion that “appeared quite a bit just like the salute utilized in Nazi Germany and fascist Italy,” as The New York Occasions described it. Others who’ve boycotted X embody Jack White, Neil Younger, and 9 Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor.
