The X account of Celtic punk rock band Dropkick Murphys was suspended on Monday night, a day after a viral moment emerged from one of the band’s St. Patrick’s Day weekend shows in Boston, where the band’s lead singer called out an attendee holding up a MAGA hat and asked him to “shut the fuck up.”
Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys performs during the Louder Than Life music festival at the Highland ... [+]
The incident took place on Sunday when the Dropkick Murphys were playing one of their three consecutive shows at the MGM Music Hall in Boston’s Fenway Park stadium.
During their performance, the band’s lead singer Ken Casey called out an attendee holding up a Make America Great Again hat and said: “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**king hat the whole night to represent a president.”
Casey described the man’s black MAGA hat as the “Elon Musk True Nazi edition,” referencing the style of hat the billionaire and X owner is seen wearing around the president.
The singer ended the confrontation, saying: “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**k up for five minutes.”
The band’s X account was suspended on Monday night and the page now displays a message saying the platform suspends accounts that “violate the X Rules.”
It is unclear if the suspension was triggered by them sharing the clip of the confrontation on X, but the band’s Instagram account is still active and on it, the band has shared a video of the incident.
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Casey appeared on the MeidasTouch Network’s podcast on Monday to discuss the incident, where he once again expressed his dislike of Trump, Musk and their politics. “The two guys in charge, whoever you want to call the president, I’m not sure which really is, they literally laugh at working-class people,” before later saying Donald Trump was “the exact opposite of everything we sing about.” The singer urged working-class people to stand up to Trump and then pushed back against what he said was “this whole mentality that MAGA has painted that like, ‘You’re either MAGA or you’re drinking soy lattes.”
This isn’t the first instance of Casey clashing with Trump supporters at one of the band’s events. During a concert in Clearwater, Florida earlier this month, Casey called out another concert attendee wearing a hat and shirt supporting Trump. Casey showed off his band’s merch and pointed out that it was made in America before making a $100 “friendly wager” with the attendee on the manufacturing origin of the MAGA apparel. “If you lose the bet, we switch shirts, OK? If you win the bet, I give you $100 and the shirt,” Casey said. Shortly after that the singer told the audience: the MAGA shirt was “made in Nicaragua! He’s taking the shirt off. We’re taking crime off the streets.”
Dropkick Murphys Slam Fan Waving ‘True Nazi Edition’ MAGA Hat During Show: ‘Shut the F-ck Up’ (Rolling Stone)