Dropkick Murphys Lead Singer Stands Up To Trump at Shows

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Speaker 1 My favorite punk band, the Dropkick Murphys, been making headlines across the country as they are touring and they are not afraid to call out MAGA when they see that occasional MAGA hat that's still in their crowd.

Speaker 1 Look, the Dropkick Murphys has been making music for working-class fans now for about three decades.

Speaker 1 And I think they're seeing firsthand, though, what Donald Trump and what MAGA has been doing to some of these people.

Speaker 1 I want to share with you this video that we exclusively broke at the Midas Touch Network. This happened on stage in the past day or so in front of 6,000 Bostonians at the Dropkick Murphys concert.

Speaker 1 Watch this.

Speaker 9 Shiny's fucking red that they all wear, and I think it's dying their brains. You got the black on black Elon Musk True Nazi edition.

Speaker 9 And then

Speaker 9 my man here, he's getting ready for summer with a nice fucking light and white one, all right?

Speaker 8 No, bro.

Speaker 9 Listen, I admire your dedication, but I will ask everyone, if you're in a room full of people and you want to know who's in a cult how do you know who's in a cult that been holding up a fucking hat the whole night to represent a president

Speaker 9 this is america there's no kings here

Speaker 9 anyway anyway

Speaker 9 do you mind sir we're gonna we're gonna play a song about our grandparents and people who like fought nazis in the war and shit you know so if you could just shut the fuck up for five minutes

Speaker 1 Let me show you another incredible moment from another show recently where the lead singer Ken Casey just showed the crowd and an audience member who was wearing a MAGA cap the difference between made in America versus made in foreign countries.

Speaker 1 Here, watch this.

Speaker 10 Where the f ⁇ are all the other punk pans?

Speaker 10 The reason we speak out, we don't care if we lose fans, because when history is said and done, we want it known that Drupal Kick Murphy stood with the people, we stood with the workers okay

Speaker 10 and and and it's all a scam guys okay i want to propose in the in the name of decency and fairness sir i'd like to propose a friendly a friendly wager you can't lose this wager would you in the name of dialogue and discourse and i appreciate being here would you agree to a friendly wager he says sure that's a good sport well first of all

Speaker 10 do you support American workers?

Speaker 2 Of course you do. Of course you do.
Okay.

Speaker 10 So you support American businesses, obviously.

Speaker 4 Okay.

Speaker 10 So I don't know if you guys are aware, because we don't go around fucking bragging about it, but Rob Kick Murphy always sells proudly made in American merchandise only.

Speaker 10 And here's the bet I'd like to make.

Speaker 4 If you lose the bet,

Speaker 10 we switch shirts, okay?

Speaker 10 If you win the bet, I give you $100 in the shirts, right? That's why he said you can't lose, right?

Speaker 10 All right, Matt, can we get a little drum roll, please?

Speaker 4 This is high drama here.

Speaker 10 American mate, sir, could you both turn backwards? Don't worry, no good. He just needs to check your tags on your shirt and your hat.
Just need to see what it means.

Speaker 10 No, no, no, no. The MAGA shirt, the MAGA shirt.
Let's see what that's made.

Speaker 4 it's made in nicaragua

Speaker 10 so yo he is a good sport he's taking the shirt off we're taking crime off the streets

Speaker 10 God bless your fucking heart that's a good sport you get one proudly made in America drop kick murphy shirt a proudly made in America Dropkick Murphys shirt.

Speaker 1 Let's bring in the lead singer of Dropkick Murphy's, Ken Casey. Ken, how you doing?

Speaker 1 Tell us about your tour. We're big fans of Drop Kick Murphys here at the Midas Network.
Tell us about the tour, what you're seeing with your audience, and

Speaker 1 your ability just to call out MAGA for what it is.

Speaker 11 Yeah, so, you know, obviously being around as long as we have and since our very first album, you know, know, and when we started in 96, we've always kind of been this, you know, pro-working class, pro-union band.

Speaker 11 And a lot of our politics have been about our experiences in, you know, the workforce before we started the band and,

Speaker 11 you know, family history and unions and union politics and union organizing. So it's always been near and dear to our heart.
And our fan base.

Speaker 11 was lockstep with us, you know, and we have, we had a lot of military support, first responders, you know, rank and file union people.

Speaker 11 And once that guy came down the escalator, man, and started telling everyone the lie, you know, all of a sudden, you know, a big portion of our fan base is like, what's with this politics?

Speaker 11 All of a sudden, they say, all of a sudden, we, one thing I can say is that we have not changed our message from the beginning in 1996 till now.

Speaker 11 Unfortunately, a lot of people, you know, that are in all those categories I mentioned have been, you know, tricked to think that a grifter billionaire who wouldn't know how to, you know, sit in a room full of regular people, you know, is looking out for their best interests.

Speaker 11 So, you know, my goal is not to come out on stage and berate our fans. Those two instances you just showed were

Speaker 11 the first one,

Speaker 11 the second one that you showed in Florida

Speaker 11 when I did the wager with the guy. He was actually a very good sport, you know, and, you know, he lost the bet and he took off his shirt and it was good.

Speaker 11 And after the show, and I was talking to fans down front, he was there and I said, Hey, thanks for being a good sport.

Speaker 11 And he said, I've been coming to see you for 20 years and I don't let politics and I consider you family and I don't let politics come between family.

Speaker 11 And I was like, man, that gave me a lot of hope, you know, that we can come back together. Because ultimately, if,

Speaker 11 you know, if it's just that by an uprising or whatever it is, we, you know, gain, you power back, which a general strike, whatever it might be,

Speaker 11 we're still going to be a divided country, you know, so I'd love to have the hope that someday we, you know, politics might be boring again and we can all be friends again, you know, the other guy, the first clip you showed with the hat, he was coming in more of a,

Speaker 11 you know, he had held the hat up all night, putting it in people's faces.

Speaker 11 You know, he was looking for the attention. So like, I'm not really looking to, you know, stop.

Speaker 11 I'm looking to play music and I oftentimes will comment before a song,

Speaker 11 you know, something about our beliefs. But I'm really not looking to stop the show and turn it into a political rally.

Speaker 11 But, you know, I do have to call out the hypocrisy when I see it, especially if it's being put in my face at a show, you know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, look, in this particular moment, too, we're seeing with Project 2025 and Trump's other agenda, how, you know, these billionaires are

Speaker 1 gutting our government. We're seeing veterans being fired.

Speaker 1 You've got Elon Musk calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme while destroying government agencies and then kind of just mocking working class people.

Speaker 1 I think Elon Musk says that, and Trump has said before, I think that they don't even believe in the concepts of unions or Trump's laughed when Elon Musk fired striking workers, and Trump found that hilarious.

Speaker 1 And so, look, this is a major topic of conversation right now. Are you seeing, though, at your shows a different reaction now than maybe you saw even a year ago or two years ago

Speaker 1 right now, specifically with all of the things that Doge and Musk are doing?

Speaker 11 Yeah, well, people will say to us, like, yeah, we know this is your politics, but why are you like, you know, they want to, the right that follows us wants to be able to just kind of know our politics, but not have to be faced with it, you you know?

Speaker 11 And they said, why? Well, why all of a sudden so much? I said, well, we always have. If it's more now, it's because we're in a crisis.

Speaker 11 And if we don't speak up now, we're going to lose the opportunity to speak up. And

Speaker 11 all the things you mentioned, especially, you know, like organized labor. And I get it.
I get the anger and

Speaker 11 people feeling like the Democrats have let them down as well.

Speaker 11 But if you want to look at the voting records and you want to look at, like you said, the two guys in charge, whoever you want to call the president, i'm not sure which one really is they literally laugh at working class people how you can vote with that i don't know um and i do see a change because i think that especially like in the online world that you know the bullies will always bully but like maga had dominated that they almost had scared people into submission and people would even a lot of other bands they just kept their head down because they didn't want it to affect their business they didn't want it to you know put the bullseye on them.

Speaker 11 But listen, they're coming for everybody eventually, right? So you better speak up now and don't be afraid.

Speaker 11 And if you want to be silenced because you think it's going to be better for your business, it's like in the long run, there's only a few ultra, ultra wealthy people that this is going to benefit.

Speaker 11 Everyone else is going to suffer. And

Speaker 11 someday you'll also carry the shame if you're a band or whoever that you didn't speak up when the time was called for. So that's why we do it now.

Speaker 11 And, you know, we've just, it's what we've always been about, you know, and, and I think that, you know, working class people on the left in particular need to, you know, stand up because there's this whole like mentality that MAGA has painted that like, you know, you're either MAGA or you're, you know,

Speaker 11 drinking soy lattes, you know, or whatever, you know, and there's, there's a lot of people that are just like, we're just regular people, but we don't want a dictator.

Speaker 11 We don't want to see people rip, people's benefits ripped away, especially veterans and people who have worked their whole life to pay into Social Security. I just don't understand.

Speaker 11 You know, if someone was going to trick Americans into what has happened, I would have thought it might have been like a Brad Pitt or someone a little bit cooler or whatever.

Speaker 11 Like the fact that Elon Musk, the guy looks like,

Speaker 11 he's literally seems like a villain from a movie

Speaker 11 mixed with a guy that's like mid-nervous breakdown. And Donald Trump's just a clown.
I just can't believe how they've been the two that have

Speaker 11 swaying people's views it's crazy and and i'm 100 convinced that donald trump is a russian asset you know and um because his behavior and the things he's done and

Speaker 11 one other thing dropkick murphy's has always been about is like a lot of songs about standing with your friends and family and the things you believe in whether it's politics or just how you were raised And Donald Trump is the exact opposite of everything we sing about.

Speaker 11 You know, he's turned on his friends. He's turned on his, he's turned on America's friends and our allies, and he's a rat and a coward, you know, when you think of it that way.

Speaker 11 America shouldn't be turning on our allies, you know. So that's that's how we feel.

Speaker 1 One of the things that they do, though, to try to ingratiate themselves in the culture, as you say, like, how do people buy into what they're saying, though, is they take a lot of cultural moments and songs and music and they pretend that they're endorsements of them.

Speaker 1 You've seen this recently as well, where someone like Don Jr., as of what, last week,

Speaker 1 was posting your music. He was posting your song, Returning to Boston.
And then you responded as follows to him. This was the DM.

Speaker 1 This is a cease and desist letter, if I've ever seen one right here. He posts your music and you go, take down our music, you Nepo dictator crackhead.
And he was posting, I'm shipping up to Boston.

Speaker 1 He was playing the music So tell us about your version of a cease and desist letter and what went through your mind when you heard him playing your music

Speaker 11 Yeah, I mean, it's just

Speaker 11 kind of stupidity to just not you know, it's like you know, these people just don't read the room, you know, and I mean Dawn Jr. don't even get me started.

Speaker 11 You know, they're definitely not welcome to play my music. They have a very limited amount of musicians that want them

Speaker 11 or allow them to play their music, you you know, and yeah, I just don't want, nobody wants, you know, their work associated with this regime, you know, and it's it's sickening, but it also shows how like little they're reading the room, you know.

Speaker 1 Absolutely. I want to tell everybody about your live show this evening.
Um, you can go find the live show right there. It's at Veeps.event slash dropkick Murphys.

Speaker 1 Veeps.event slash dropkick Murphys starts starts 9 p.m. Eastern time, 6 p.m.
Pacific. So tonight, the Midas Touch podcast goes live at 5 Eastern, or rather 5 Pacific,

Speaker 1 8 Eastern. And so right after the Midas Touch podcast ends, you can go and tune right into the Dropkick Murphys concept.
We didn't plan it that way, but as soon as our show ends, go and watch it.

Speaker 1 Anything else you want to say before we go, Ken, just to your fans and to the American people in general?

Speaker 11 Yeah, I just just like that the American people, like I said, we started to touch on it, but I got a little sidetrack to say that I now see that

Speaker 11 I think that people are starting to, you know, take back the airwaves, starting to rise up, you know, the mega cancel culture and all that, like go woke, go broke. That's over, man, you know.

Speaker 11 And like, we've been around doing what we do before the word woke existed, you know, so like whatever that, whatever you try to do with the go woke, go broke is it's not working. You know what I mean?

Speaker 11 It's not working. And

Speaker 11 we're appreciate all the people that have supported Drop Kick Murphys and our message and our music. And, you know, yeah, cool if you tune in tonight.

Speaker 11 It's the final show of our tour, the final show of four shows in Boston.

Speaker 11 We do a little special thing tonight where we play like all the old school music back from a lot of the songs from the 90s and stuff.

Speaker 11 Yeah, it's a special night to wrap up on our hometown on St. Patrick's Day.
I'd like to wish everyone a happy St. Patrick's Day.
And, you know, thank you guys for all you do on behalf of democracy.

Speaker 11 And it's awesome to have your platform reaching so many people.

Speaker 1 Well, appreciate you. We got Ken Casey from the Dropkick Murphys on St.
Patrick's Day on the last day of the Dropkick Murphys tour. Ken, great to see everybody.
Check it out.

Speaker 1 Veeps.evn slash dropkick Murphys. As soon as the Midas Touch podcast ends tonight, go check out the Dropkick Murphys concert.
Thanks, Ken.

Speaker 11 Thanks, Ben.

Speaker 1 You too. Everybody, hit subscribe.
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