Dropkick Murphys: We Quit X Before Elon Musk Could Ban Us

The Boston-based band Dropkick Murphys has been trashing Donald Trump and Elon Musk for years, from the stage to Musk’s X platform, but their latest viral roast of a MAGA supporter isn’t why their account was suspended on Monday, according to a statement from the band.

Fans believed Musk had the band’s official account shuttered for criticizing Trump, but its lead singer Ken Casey revealed they left X in 2022. “We broke up with him first,” he told Variety. “We quit Twitter in 2022 when he was only half a Nazi.” Casey said the account was suspended for a more mundane reason.

“Someone else took our handle, pretending to be our official account, so we filed a legal complaint to put a stop to that, which is why @dropkickmurphys shows as suspended,” he explained. “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.”

Musk has been accused of shuttering the accounts of journalists and public figures who criticize him. Last month, comedian Bill Burr recently claimed his account was flagged following a flurry of posts roasting Musk and Trump’s administration.

Dropkick Murphys has made a habit of calling out Trump’s supporters at their concerts, including during Monday’s sold out show in Boston, where Casey trolled a man from the crowd who was wearing a Black MAGA hat (like the one Musk donned at Trump’s inauguration).

“If you’re in a room full of people and you want to know who’s in a cult… They’ve been holding up a f---ing hat the whole night to represent a president,” Casey said from the stage, calling the hat the “Elon Musk True Nazi edition.” He ended the exchange by telling the concertgoer, “Do you mind sir, we’re going to play a song about our grandparents and people who fought Nazis in the war, so if you could just shut the f--- up for five minutes.”

Earlier this month, Casey had a similar exchange with another audience member wearing a Trump t-shirt in Florida, during which he offered them a “friendly wager” on where their MAGA merch was made. Noting the band’s merch was manufactured in America, Casey said, “If you lose the bet, we switch shirts, OK? If you win the bet, I give you $100 and the shirt.” Sure enough, Casey told the crowd of the MAGA shirt, “Made in Nicaragua! He’s taking the shirt off. We’re taking crime off the streets.”

During an interview on MeidasTouch Monday, Casey explained his aversion to the president further: “One other thing Dropkick Murphys has always been about is a lot of songs about standing with your friends and family and the things you believe in, whether it’s politics, or just how you were raised... And Donald Trump is the exact opposite of everything we sing about.”