Music legend Kid Rock, who played at former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump’s inaugurations, recently slammed mainstream media as “nuthouses” for continuing to fuel division following Charlie Kirk’s assassination on “Jesse Watters Primetime” Monday.
Kid Rock opens up on media coverage
“The mainstream media is fricking public enemy number one right now,” he argued.
Kid Rock’s comments emerged amid national debate over what drove Tyler Robinson, the suspect in Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s death, to allegedly want to kill the conservative activist. Investigators are examining evidence as they search for a motive.
While Democrats like Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended calling President Donald Trump a “wannabe Hitler,” Kid Rock said as a “very vocal Trump supporter,” that he relates to the media’s negative coverage of Kirk.
“They’ve called me a racist Nazi for years now,” Kid Rock said. “But other people start to echo this – just people who write dumb articles who think, you know, I’m trash, and I hate my music, and they say he’s just a racist Nazi.”
The songwriter, who is credited for arranging a White House dinner between ardent Trump foe Bill Maher and Trump in April went on to explain the factors he believes lead to one “big echo chamber.”
“We understand that everyone on the left is not sick, but there are enough people in the media and enough of these crazy liberals, too, that just create this big echo chamber,” he told host Jesse Watters.
Kid Rock stated that there is “a little bit of guilty on both sides” in the sharp political divide across the nation and he suggested that celebratory reactions following Kirk’s assassination are disproportionately coming from liberals.
“They’re supposed to be this inclusive, you know, this, that, and the other,” the musician noted.
“And they’re the ones that don’t want to talk and get along with anyone. Just don’t even want to sit down and break bread.”
When Watters asked Kid Rock what message he has for people who are still “celebrating” Kirk’s murder, the multi-time Grammy nominee cautioned against what could get “ugly.”
“You’re gonna keep it up, and you’re gonna run into the wrong people,” he warned. “Some people I know, that aren’t gonna play that mess. And it’s not gonna be pretty. It’s gonna be very ugly.”
