Musician Kid Rock has hitched his wagon to president Donald Trump for quite some time now, and it seems he too is in the "find out" stage of that particularly exercise in FAFO.
It seems that when the president you form your entire personality around craters to a catastrophic approval rating even for him, your ship starts to sink too.
Because Mr. Rock is struggling so mightily to sell tickets to his weird Trump-worshipping festival he's slashed them by 50%—which he claims is a gesture to help people afford "rising transportation costs" but...we can probably all guess the real reason.
Kid Rock's Rock the Country festival is billed as a 250th-anniversary celebration for America, headlined by a star-studded roster of luminaries in country music, the genre that Kid Rock likes to pretend he comes from despite being the son of a rich Michigan car dealership magnate who made rap/rock songs until about 15 minutes ago.
Anyway! In an exemplary display of the kind of delusion only MAGA devotees are capable of, Kid Rock was charging as much as $5000 for the best seats to Rock the Country.
Ticket sales were dead sluggish right from the jump, and that was before major headliners like Jelly Roll and, weirdly, Ludacris dropped out after the event was labeled a "MAGA festival" online, along with Shinedown, Morgan Wade, and Carter Faith.
So perhaps Kid Rock had no choice but to slash the tickets in half in hopes of righting the ship.
The festival's Instagram post reads, in part:
"Hey you American Loving people! We have a few super important updates for you! 🇺🇸"
"Fuel costs are up and we want to help! ⛽️ In response to rising transportation costs, you can enjoy up to 50% off general admission passes to any of 7 small town stops for a limited time only..."
"...Take advantage of this offer, fill up your tank and we’ll see you this summer!"
The post goes on to announce that Kid Rock has apparently cajoled Jelly Roll into returning for some of the tour stops, and convinced Miranda Lambert to debase herself by joining too. Congrats, Kid!
But online, pretty much NOBODY is buying Kid Rock's reasoning for slashing the prices, and there was a LOT of mockery in response.
"No handouts! They should pull themselves up by the bootstraps to pay full price." —u/kasiagabrielle
"Maybe he should downgrade to smaller venues."
"Like a gas station parking lot or the eating area of an Arbys."—u/HappyHarryHardOn
"But this man hosted the most successful Superbowl Alternative Half Time Show of all time!" —u/VinylHighway
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But of course, there's an elephant in the room.Those "transportation costs" Kid Rock referenced are rising for one reason and one reason only: because Kid Rock's beloved president invaded Iran for literally no reason.
(Well, not NO reason. It HAS effectively distracted us from the Epstein files, at least temporarily. Credit where it's due!)
And many on social media were not about to let Kid Rock and his fellow MAGA devotees forget who's responsible for these gas prices.
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“'In his latest push to sell out the shows, he has cut ticket prices in half, citing rising transportation costs across America.'" How did that happen?"—u/Sorry-Belt-3514
Of course, the few fans of the festival who DO exist missed this point entirely, but that doesn't mean they weren't just as critical of this big ticket discount.
Fans flooded the event's Instagram post to complain that they should be given a refund for the full-price tickets they already bought.
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Poor MAGA. First they get a president who does absolutely nothing he promised to do and EVERYTHING he promised NOT to do, and then they get bilked by Kid Rock for concert tickets.
They just can't win!
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