Donald Trump trembles hands with Jason Aldean as his other half vocalist Brittany Kerr searches, on the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 18, 2024. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP using Getty Images
With bit greater than 100 days prior to the 2024 governmental political election, musicians are lining up with the prospect of their selection. While most of artists often tend to maintain their political choices to themselves– partially for concern of estranging their target market– an increasing number of nation musicians are speaking up on behalf of Republican candidate and previous head of state, Donald Trump.
Country songs and conventional national politics have actually been together for greater than half a century. As Richard Nixon competed re-election in 1972, he started peeling off away functioning and center course Southern whites, that had actually formerly electedDemocratic Concurrently, c and w started changing to the right, finishing in the Country Music Association making a collection cd for Nixon that year called Thank You,Mr President, according to NPR The change improved Merle Haggard’s culturally cutting-edge 1969 hit “Okie from Muskogee,” which handled San Francisco “hippies” and commended a way of living where “we still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse.”
While several pop and hip-hop musicians, consisting of Ariana Grande, Cardi B, Charli XCX, Lil Nas X, Lizzo, Demi Lovato and Katy Perry have actually hurried to articulate assistance for Vice President Kamala Harris, that is positioned to be the Democratic prospect adhering to President Joe Biden’s July 21 news that he will certainly no more look for reelection, nation musicians have actually been slower to articulate their selection. However, a number have actually been extremely singing in lining up with Trump, one also presuming regarding launch a tune that mirrors Trump’s speaking factors.
Below are nation musicians that have actually happily stated their assistance for Trump.
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Jason Aldean
From socializing with Trump at Mar- A-Lago to resting with the previous head of state at the Republican National Convention, Aldean is a zealous Trump fan (though possibly not fairly as zealous as his other half), also presuming regarding market Free Trump merch using their Instagram accounts following his May sentence for apparently misstating documents. After the murder effort on Trump, Aldean published the now-iconic image of Trump at the rally, bloodied ear, clenched fist increased in defiance before an American flag, and composed, “This is what a warrior looks like. This is my guy.” That resembled what he told the Los Angeles Times in November, when he stated, “I have nothing but good things to say about the guy.”
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Lee Greenwood
Greenwood did his trademark hit “God Bless the USA.” throughout the Republican National Convention, and later on posted on Instagram, “My first time singing for an American president was in 1984 at the RNC Convention for Ronald Reagan. Forty years later, I was honored to sing for another charismatic and powerful president, Donald J. Trump! Thank you President Trump for fighting so hard for this country. It was a privilege to sing for you this week. Thank you @realdonaldtrump for mentioning our friendship, I am proud to be your friend and you make me proud to be an American!”
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Chris Janson
During the 2024 Republican National Convention, Janson coordinated with Nashville- based band Sixwire to supply home entertainment for the RNC target market, doing Janson’s tune “All American Guy.” This isn’t the very first time Janson has actually carried out at a Trump- commemorating RNC; throughout the 2016 Republican National Convention, Janson executed a performance of the Tim McGraw tune “Truck Yeah” (which he co-wrote)– changing the title with words, “Trump Yeah.”
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Brian Kelley
Kelley is taking Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan to heart, launching a tune with the exact same title on Friday (July 26). Sure to be used repeat at Trump rallies, the tune’s verses are straight out of Trump’s playbook, consisting of “The streets are full of drugs and illegals/ It’s time to finish that wall and make America great again.” The previous fifty percent of Florida Georgia Line published on Instagram that he composed the tune on July 7, and afterwards after the July 13 murder effort on Trump (and “being fed up with the current state of America”), he chose to launch it. Kelley picked to carry out an additional, much less politically billed tune (2022’s “American Spirit”) at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17.
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Kid Rock
Just prior to Trump’s Thursday evening speech throughout the Republican National Convention, Kid Rock took the phase to carry out a mashup of his tracks “Cowboy” and “American Bad A–.” Earlier in the day on July 18, Kid Rock posted a video on X, stating, “We just touched down in Milwaukee to support our tried and true, red white and blue, 100% American badass president…God bless Donald Trump and God bless America.”
During his RNC speech on Thursday (July 18), Trump stated of Kid Rock, “He became a friend of mine over the last 10 years and he’s amazing, everyone loves him.”
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John Rich
Rich and Trump ended up being buds when Rich contended on and won Celebrity Apprentice in 2011. He has actually been a long time fan of Trump politically and accepts his reactionary national politics. Rich went to the RNC and often defines Trump as a “blue-collar billionaire … he is all about people and all about hard work.” While he ridicules political leaders on both sides for existing, Rich makes an exemption for Trump, commending him to News Nation for “talking like a regular person talks.”
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Travis Tritt
“This is my president!” Tritt, a longtime Trump fan, published on his social networks accounts adhering to the July 13 murder effort. In 2017, in a since-deleted tweet, he recognized that followers intended to hear his songs greater than his political sights– yet national politics have actually slipped back right into his social networks, and by the 2020 political election, he was tweeting pro-Trump unsupported claims on a regular basis, and stated onNov 3, 2020 that he was “voting red all the way down the ticket.” His assistance has actually just expanded ever since.
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Justin Moore
Shortly after the murder effort versus Trump happened in Pennsylvania, Justin Moore took to X to share his ideas, stating, “I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on, what went on today was sickening. Hopefully, everyone agrees on this. Sad day for our country. Thoughts and prayers go out to President Trump and his family. The fist pump after fired me up! Gave me chills. #TRUMP2024”
Back in 2016, Moore additionally informed CMT After Midnite that he had actually sustained Trump’s governmental project, saying,“I like the fact that he evokes a sense of winning, you know? I know it’s offensive to some people, and I’m not going to say I agree with everything he says, clearly. I think he’s just wacky enough to actually go do it. He doesn’t like to lose. I think he’ll win for our country if he were to get in there.”
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