{"id":42321,"date":"2025-07-29T21:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/dropkick-murphys-dedicate-first-class-loser-to-trump-at-warped-tour\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T21:13:21","slug":"dropkick-murphys-dedicate-first-class-loser-to-trump-at-warped-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/dropkick-murphys-dedicate-first-class-loser-to-trump-at-warped-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Dropkick Murphys Dedicate &#8216;First Class Loser&#8217; to Trump at Warped Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The band performed in front of a backdrop that cycled through videos and images of the president, including a few that highlighted his connection to Jeffrey Epstein <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-dropkick-murphys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-dropkick-murphys\" data-tag=\"the-dropkick-murphys\">The Dropkick Murphys<\/a> channeled the true punk spirit of Warped Tour during their recent performance at the festival\u2019s Long Beach, California stop. Frontman Ken Casey dedicated their scathing single \u201cFirst Class Loser\u201d to President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and performed the track in front of a backdrop that cycles through videos and images of him, including a few that highlighted his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/trump-epstein-birthday-book-note-1235393765\/\">connection<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/trump-told-epstein-files-doj-1235392612\/\">Jeffrey Epstein. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThis next song is dedicated to a guy who wears orange makeup, shits his pants in his diapers, rapes women, touches kids,\u201d Casey said. \u201cIt\u2019s called \u2018First Class Loser.\u2019\u201d Among the images broadcast on the stage was a screenshot from a <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/nymetro\/news\/people\/n_7912\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">New York Magazine <\/a><\/em>story from 2002, in which Trump said, \u201cI\u2019ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He\u2019s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dropkick Murphys @ Warped Tour LBC \u201cFirst Class Loser\u201d Trump diss!\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P0gdgOChktc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cHave you ever had a family or a friend that drove you crazy?\/A foe or a neighbor who\u2019s obnoxious, rude or lazy?\u201d Casey sang. \u201cThe type of guy you\u2019d cross six lanes of traffic to avoid\/He\u2019s always got his hand out, he should be unemployed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tEarlier this year, Dropkick Murphys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dropkick-murphys-slam-fan-maga-hat-boston-concert-1235297775\/\">called out an audience member<\/a> who spent the duration of their Boston concert holding up the all-black MAGA hat popularized by Elon Musk, which Casey called the \u201ctrue Nazi edition.\u201d \u201cIf you\u2019re in a room full of people and you want to know who\u2019s in a cult, how do you know who\u2019s in a cult?\u201d Casey asked the crowd. \u201cThey\u2019ve been holding up a fucking hat the whole night to represent a president.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn 2022, Dropkick Murphys went viral after their appearance at the Great Allentown Fair\u00a0in eastern Pennsylvania. \u201cI felt like we were playing a MAGA flea market,\u201d Casey told\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/dropkick-murphys-woody-guthrie-maga-rant-1234608371\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/em>\u00a0at the time. \u201cEvery other table was selling the MAGA gear and the \u2018Fuck Joe Biden\u2019 gear and all this stuff. I was a little overwhelmed and befuddled. It was like I was dropped into another planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDuring a show in Florida earlier this year, Casey explained that \u201cthe reason we speak out, we don\u2019t care if we lose fans, because when history is said and done, we want it known that the Dropkick Murphys stood with the people, we stood with the workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dropkick-murphys-trump-first-class-loser-warped-tour-1235396369\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The band performed in front of a backdrop that cycled through videos and images of the president, including a few that highlighted his connection&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":42322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}