DROPKICK MURPHYS have been SUSPENDED on X after criticizing ELON MUSK and DONALD TRUMP throughout a current present.
Over the weekend, throughout certainly one of three consecutive concert events in Boston, Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey took purpose at Trump and Musk after recognizing a fan within the viewers waving a MAGA hat round over his head.
Whereas describing the totally different shade MAGA hats, Casey known as the black on black model the “Elon Musk true n*zi version.”
He then went on to explain MAGA hat sporting Trump supporters as being in a “cult,” saying: “How are you aware who’s in a cult? They’ve been holding up a f*cking hat the entire evening to signify a president. That is America, there’s no kings right here! … Shut the f*ck up.”
Now, after a video of the incident went viral on social media, Dropkick Murphys appear to have been suspended from the Elon Musk owned platform X (formally often called Twitter).
Followers took to X to criticize the hypocrisy of the suspension, citing how when Musk purchased Twitter in 2022 he said that he hoped to make the social media web site a “digital city sq.” and to make sure that “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy.”
“Elon Musk, purveyor of FREE SPEECH suspended the Dropkick Murphys account for talking up in opposition to facism and Trump,” one consumer wrote.
“Why’d you droop the Dropkick Murphys account? What occurred to free speech?” one other tweeted at Musk.
Because it seems, nevertheless, Casey’s feedback will not be the rationale behind Dropkick Murphys’s suspension.
The frontman shared a press release with Forbes saying that the band had truly stop the social media platform in 2022 and after “another person took our deal with, pretending to be our official account,” the band complained, “which is why @dropkickmurphys reveals as suspended.”
Casey added that they left X as a result of they “didn’t wish to be a part of that [Musk’s] empire. But when we had been nonetheless on there, I’m certain he would have suspended us by now.”
