{"id":67764,"date":"2026-07-01T23:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/front-row-seat-to-greatest-sh-t-show\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T23:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T23:16:27","slug":"front-row-seat-to-greatest-sh-t-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/front-row-seat-to-greatest-sh-t-show\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Front Row Seat to Greatest Sh-t Show&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The singer said one of his &#8220;late-night drinking tricks&#8221; is to ring up the president<\/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\/music\/music-features\/kid-rock-republican-mouthpiece-trump-maga-bff-1235019530\/\">MAGA mouthpiece<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kid-rock\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kid-rock\" data-tag=\"kid-rock\">Kid Rock<\/a> is once again lauding President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn an interview with Sky News Australia, the country-rock singer, born\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kid-rock-republican-mouthpiece-trump-maga-bff-1235019530\/\">Bob Ritchie<\/a>, sat down with host Paul Murray\u00a0as part of a one-hour special, <em>Trump\u2019s America: 250 Years in the Making<\/em>. Over the past decade,\u00a0Ritchie has become one of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/Republican-affiliated%20music%20gigs\" target=\"_blank\">president\u2019s biggest cheerleaders <\/a>\u2014 receiving invitations to the White House, performing at Republican-affiliated music gigs, and chumming it up next to Trump at football games and UFC matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDuring a conversation that centered around Ritchie\u2019s thoughts on America today, Murray asked what is was like to have a \u201cbuddy that\u2019s running the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIt\u2019s \u201cfucking awesome,\u201d replied the musician. When asked if the president \u201ctexts you randomly,\u201d Ritchie said Trump did and \u201cit\u2019s one of my late-night drinking tricks because I know when to get him.\u201d The singer said Trump \u201calways picks up or he\u2019ll call and check in just to shoot the shit,\u201d adding, \u201cHe\u2019s not calling me to [ask], \u2018Hey, what should we do in Iran, Bob?\u2019 I don\u2019t get those calls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRitchie continued, \u201cI enjoy the hell out of hanging out with him and talking with him and just having a front row seat to the greatest shit show on Earth.\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\tIn February, Ritchie headlined the \u201cAll-American Halftime Show\u201d \u2014 the Super Bowl\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kid-rock-headline-tp-usa-alternative-super-bowl-show-1235509934\/\">alternative halftime show<\/a>\u00a0hosted by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/turning-point-usa\/\">Turning Point USA<\/a>\u00a0that ran concurrently to the Super Bowl halftime show, which was headlined by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bad-bunny-super-bowl-performance-1235513007\/\">Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny<\/a>.\u00a0To no one\u2019s surprise except maybe some MAGA hopefuls, Bad Bunny\u2019s performance <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7031946\/2026\/02\/08\/turning-point-usa-halftime-show-pete-hegseth\/\">eclipsed<\/a> the audience for the conservative counterprogramming mounted against it by millions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kid-rock-trump-friendship-1235587790\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The singer said one of his &#8220;late-night drinking tricks&#8221; is to ring up the president MAGA mouthpiece Kid Rock is once again lauding President&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":67765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67764","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\/67764","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=67764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}