DROPKICK MURPHYS have been SUSPENDED on X after criticizing ELON MUSK and DONALD TRUMP during a recent show.
Over the weekend, during one of three consecutive concerts in Boston, Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey took aim at Trump and Musk after spotting a fan in the audience waving a MAGA hat around over his head.
While describing the different color MAGA hats, Casey called the black on black version the “Elon Musk true n*zi edition.”
He then went on to describe MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters as being in a “cult,” saying: “How do you know who’s in a cult? They’ve been holding up a f*cking hat the whole night to represent a president. This is America, there’s no kings here! … Shut the f*ck up.”
Now, after a video of the incident went viral on social media, Dropkick Murphys seem to have been suspended from the Elon Musk owned platform X (formally known as Twitter).
Fans took to X to criticize the hypocrisy of the suspension, citing how when Musk bought Twitter in 2022 he stated that he hoped to make the social media site a “digital town square” and to ensure that “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy.”
“Elon Musk, purveyor of FREE SPEECH suspended the Dropkick Murphys account for speaking up against facism and Trump,” one user wrote.
“Why’d you suspend the Dropkick Murphys account? What happened to free speech?” another tweeted at Musk.
As it turns out, however, Casey’s comments are not the reason behind Dropkick Murphys’s suspension.
The frontman shared a statement with Forbes saying that the band had actually quit the social media platform in 2022 and after “someone else took our handle, pretending to be our official account,” the band complained, “which is why @dropkickmurphys shows as suspended.”
Casey added that they left X because they “didn’t want to be part of that [Musk’s] empire. But if we were still on there, I’m sure he would have suspended us by now.”
