Country musician Gavin Adcock launched an expletive-ridden rant against President Joe Biden as he performed at Kid Rock's "Rock the Country" tour over the weekend, video footage has shown.
Adcock is one of the performers who joined Kid Rock's tour, which sees the musician take the stage with stars such as Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert.
The tour has two-day stops planned in seven small towns and cities across the U.S. between April and July, visiting Louisiana, Florida, Missouri, Alabama, Kentucky, Georgia and South Carolina.
The tour kicked off at Gonzales, Louisiana's Lamar Dixon Expo Center on April 5 and 6, and footage from the event has shown Adcock making clear his feelings about Biden.
A video clip shared on TikTok showed Adcock drawing cheers from the crowd, as he yelled into the microphone: "F*** you, Joe Biden, you c***-s****** m**********."
As of press time, the clip has garnered more than 1.5 million views. Newsweek has contacted representatives of Adcock and Biden via email for comment.
Adcock shared another politically charged video clip on TikTok that featured him pulling a boy from the crowd up onto the elevated stage.
After the boy excitedly jumped up and down before the cheering crowd, Adcock said to him: "You tell 'em who's winning the [presidential] election next time."
"Trump 2024," the young fan shouted into the microphone, sparking a raucous reaction from the crowd.
"When you bring a man of the people up on stage at the Rock the Country Festival," read a screen caption.
In an additional caption, Adcock wrote: "[That's] right."
Kid Rock, whose given name is Robert James Ritchie, in December spoke of his ongoing support for presumptive Republican presidential nominee Trump, as he vies for a second term in the White House.
Speaking with Tucker Carlson, who opened for Kid Rock on the tour over the weekend, the musician called onetime real estate mogul Trump "the greatest president" the U.S. has "ever had."
"I love spending time with him, getting to know him, since he became president the first few months, having dinner at the White House with him and from there on we've just really hit it off. I can relate to him in a lot of ways," Rock told Carlson during an appearance on his streaming platform, Tucker Carlson Network.
Noting that Trump has a reputation for saying "what's on his mind," the "Bawitdaba" hitmaker added that "if you look at [Trump's] track record and who he is as a whole, there's a lot more good there than anything."
Later on in the interview, Rock, who in 2022 said Trump once asked him for advice on North Korea, went on to state that the U.S. was flourishing under his leadership.
"I don't know how you look at his track record and how he had this country firing on all cylinders when he was in office, everybody working, military's the strongest, he's leading with strength, borders under control, energy independent, you can go on and on," the star said.
"I don't get get it... Seems like it's a lot of women, in my life who...are like, 'I don't like the way he talks.' It's like, 'Come on, you're not putting him in the office to hear him talk nice.' How many years have we had of that?'"
Trump is expected to face Biden in November'election. An Emerson College poll of 1,438 registered voters, conducted from April 2 to 3, put Trump at 43 percent against 42 percent for Biden and 8 percent for independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In a straight head-to-head with all other candidates and undecided voters removed, the Republican challenger was at 51 percent against 49 percent for the Democratic incumbent. However, among very likely voters, Biden is ahead 51 to 49, said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling.
A YouGov survey, conducted for The Economist, had Trump and Biden tied at 43 percent each with Kennedy Jr. third at 2 percent. This survey of 1,601 registered voters took place between March 30 and April 2.
Two surveys by Morning Consult and Big Village at the end of March both gave Biden a two-point lead over his challenger and according to Polymarket, an online prediction platform where users can bet on world events, Biden's odds of victory have increased substantially since February.
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