MAGA’s foremost enfant terrible got taken to task on Friday night for transforming his music concerts into hours-long tributes to President Donald Trump.
Kid Rock, whose real name is Bob Ritchie, scrabbled to stand up to Bill Maher’s withering take on the Grammy-winning artist’s uber-political performances in recent years.
“I would like to say I’m a big fan of your music, not the early rap s--t, but once you became a singer,” Maher said on Friday’s edition of Real Time With Bill Maher.
The HBO host continued, “But I don’t want to go to a Trump rally! I would love to see a concert of yours, but it’s also a Trump rally. Why does it have to be both?”
Ritchie replied that he “really believe[s] in bringing people together” as long as they’re “reasonable,” before shooting back that he’s taken “a lot of crap from the media everywhere” over the past few years.
“I mean, at the end of the day, honestly, I only kind of made my s--t bigger,” he added. “Nonetheless, it’s like every day somebody is coming at you, you know?”
Complaining that nobody appears to want to discuss any of the “positive” things he does, Ritchie added he feels he has little choice but to think, “OK, whatever” when people talk about him as “a drunk, washed up, you know, f---ed up musician.”
Ritchie also revealed that he’s currently working on a gospel album with producer Rick Rubin, marking a significant departure from his existing discography, which features such tracks as “Balls in Your Mouth” and “F--- U Blind” as well as lyrics like “Young ladies, you ladies // I like ’em underage see.”
