Should you nonetheless weren’t positive how the Dropkick Murphys really feel about Donald Trump, the Celtic punks’ set on the revived Vans Warped Tour in Lengthy Seashore, Calif., over the weekend put a hat on their hat of disdain. Singer Ken Casey pulled no punches in introducing their tune “First Class Loser,” dedicating it to the President, who occurred to be in Eire on a golf vacation because the band was teeing off on him.
“This subsequent tune is devoted to a man who wears orange make-up, s–ts in his pants in his diapers,” Casey mentioned, reeling off a litany of insults and lurid allegations in regards to the commander in chief, as seen in fan videos of the performance. The band then broke into the tune because the backdrop on the stage featured the message “FDT” in addition to movies and footage of Trump together with his former good friend and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, together with a screenshot of a 2002 New York journal story through which Trump mentioned, “I’ve identified Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific man. He’s quite a lot of enjoyable to be with. It’s even mentioned that he likes lovely girls as a lot as I do, and plenty of of them are on the youthful aspect.”
Within the lyrics to the 2017 tune, Casey sings, “He’s no one’s good friend/ Yeah, he’s hated by all causes/ He solely cares about himself/ He parks in handicap areas… ‘Trigger he’s a firstclass loser/ He’s a firstclass loser/ He’s a firstclass loser, I stab him within the eye/ He’s a firstclass loser/ He’s not my kind of man.”
Trump has been dealing with repeated questions over the previous few weeks from detractors, in addition to a few of his MAGA diehards, about his connection to Epstein after the administration refused to launch extra information about late, disgraced financier. Epstein was convicted in 2008 in Florida on fees of procuring a toddler for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute and later died by suicide in his New York jail cell whereas awaiting federal fees of intercourse trafficking of minors.
Previous to the 2008 conviction, Trump had repeatedly talked about his friendship with Epstein and the 2 had been usually photographed collectively at events within the Nineteen Nineties. After saying on Monday that he broke with Epstein and banned him from his Mar-a-Lago membership 20 years in the past as a result of Epstein “stole people who labored for me,” on Tuesday Trump clarified that Epstein “stole” younger girls who labored on the Mar-a-Lago spa, together with Virginia Giuffre, some of the well-known of Epstein’s sex-trafficking accusers.
Giuffre claimed that Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, employed her to be Epstein’s masseuse in 2000 when she was an adolescent, later pressuring her to have intercourse together with his highly effective mates; Guiffre died by suicide earlier this 12 months.
It isn’t the primary time this 12 months the Dropkick Murphys have taken a swing at Trump. On St. Patrick’s Day in March, Casey informed an interviewer, “One different factor Dropkick Murphys has all the time been about is quite a lot of songs about standing together with your family and friends and the belongings you imagine in, whether or not it’s politics, or simply the way you had been raised. And Donald Trump is the precise reverse of everything we sing about… He’s turned on his mates. He’s turned on America’s mates and our allies. He’s a rat and a coward if you consider it that means.”
Throughout one in every of their annual St. Patrick’s Day reveals at MGM Music Corridor at Boston’s Fenway Park on March 16, Casey lambasted a fan who was waving round his pink MAGA hat through the present. “Should you’re in a room full of individuals and also you need to know who’s in a cult, how are you aware who’s in a cult?” Casey asked the crowd. “They’ve been holding up a f—ing hat the entire night time to signify a president… That is America, there’s no kings right here,” he mentioned, including, “Anyway, for those who thoughts, sir, we’re gonna play a tune about our grandparents and individuals who fought Nazis within the conflict and s–t. So for those who may simply shut the f–okay up for 5 minutes.”
A month earlier, Casey known as out a Florida fan rocking MAGA gear at one other present, taunting him that the Murphys merch is all made in America and making a “pleasant” $100 guess the place the person’s Trump gear was manufactured. “Should you lose the guess, we change shirts, OK? Should you win the guess, I offer you $100 and the shirt,” the singer mentioned to the person earlier than revealing to followers that the MAGA shirt was made in Nicaragua. “He’s taking the shirt off. We’re taking crime off the streets.”