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Dropkick Murphys clarify X status after reports that Musk had suspended them over MAGA rant
Ken Casey had referred to a black MAGA hat worn by a fan as the “Elon Musk True Nazi edition” at the band’s Boston show Sunday.
On Tuesday, everyone assumed that Elon Musk had dropped the Dropkick Murphy’s off his X platform after the band’s lead singer called out a MAGA hat-wearing concertgoer in Boston. But it turns out everyone was wrong.
“We broke up with him first,” the band’s lead singer, Ken Casey, wrote in a statement to Variety after multiple media outlets published reports about their apparent suspension. “We quit Twitter in 2022 when he was half a Nazi.”
Casey told Variety that someone had taken their handle on X and pretended to be their official account. The band filed a legal complaint to stop it, which is why @dropkickmurphys shows as suspended.
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Even if the band was still on X, Casey said, “I’m sure he would have suspended us by now.”
The Dropkick Murphys were playing one of three consecutive shows at the MGM Music Hall on Sunday when Casey pointed out an audience member wearing a Make America Great Again hat.
In a video posted to Instagram, Casey points out the black MAGA hat as the “Elon Musk True Nazi edition,” in reference to the style of hat Musk wears.
He continued, “If you’re in a room full of people and you want to know who’s in a cult … they’ve been holding up an (expletive) hat the whole night to represent a president.”
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The confrontation ended when Casey said, “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 (expletive) up for five minutes.”
The remarks at Sunday’s show also follow a stunt in which Casey made a bet with a fan wearing a MAGA T-shirt during a show in Clearwater, Florida, over where it was made. (It was made in Nicaragua, unlike the band’s merchandise, which they say is all made in America.)
On Monday, Casey appeared on the MediasTouch Network’s podcast to discuss the incident.
During the interview, Casey said the band has always been pro-working class and pro-unions since it formed in 1996. He said the band’s fan base has been in “lock-step” with those values for many years.
“My goal is not to come out on stage and barrage our fans,” said Casey.
But politics has become too divisive, he said. When a fan wears a MAGA hat, Casey says he has to call out the “hypocrisy.”
“I would love to have the hope that someday politics might be boring again, and we can all be friends again,” Casey said.
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He said the right has put out the message that “you’re either MAGA or you’re drinking soy lattes,” but so many people simply “don’t want a dictator.”
“The fact that Elon Musk — he literally seems like a villain from a movie mixed with a person about to have a nervous breakdown, and Donald Trump is just a clown — I can’t believe they have been the two swaying people’s views,” said Casey. “It’s crazy.”
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