Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey emphasised his disgust for Donald Trump on Monday as he continues to make use of the Massachusetts-founded Celtic punk band’s exhibits to slam the president and his MAGA supporters.
“Donald Trump is the precise reverse of every little thing we sing about,” mentioned Casey, a lead vocalist and bassist with the band, in an interview shared by the MeidasTouch Community on St. Patrick’s Day.
“He’s turned on his associates, he’s turned on America’s associates and our allies, and he’s a rat and a coward whenever you consider it that method.”
Casey — identified for ripping “swindlers” and “grifters” together with Trump and his supporters over time — has not too long ago used the band’s concert events to name out the MAGA motion, notably trolling a fan in Florida with free merchandise after the concertgoer misplaced a wager over his pro-Trump tee.
On Saturday, Casey called out a fan at a sold-out show in Boston for holding up a MAGA hat, saying it represents a “cult.”
“That is America, there’s no kings right here,” shouted Casey, whose remarks received applause from the group.
Casey instructed Ben Meiselas of the MeidasTouch Community that the band has all the time been pro-working class and pro-union since their founding, including that their fanbase — starting from navy members to first responders — was in lockstep with them earlier than the launch of Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign.
He mentioned his objective is to not berate followers, noting that the person who misplaced the wager in Florida was a “good sport” about it, however Casey pressured that he does need to “name out the hypocrisy once I see it.”
“The 2 guys in cost, whoever you need to name the president, I’m unsure which actually is, they actually snicker at working class individuals. How you could possibly vote with that, I don’t know,” he mentioned of Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.
Casey later referred to as on working-class individuals on the left, specifically, who “want to face up.”
“There’s this complete mentality that MAGA has painted that like, ‘You’re both MAGA otherwise you’re consuming soy lattes,’ you understand, or no matter,” he mentioned
“And there’s lots of people which can be identical to, “We’re simply common individuals, however we don’t need a dictator, we don’t need to see individuals’s advantages ripped away, particularly veterans and individuals who labored their complete lives paying into Social Safety.”
