MAGA’s favorite rockers ‘quietly removed’ from Kid Rock’s tour as he faces controversy

Kid Rock’s “Rock the Country” tour has been in the headlines plenty recently with acts dropping out as the singer faces criticism ahead of headlining Turning Point USA’s Super Bowl LX All-American Halftime Show.

And it now appears that one of MAGA’s favorite bands — Creed — has dipped out on Rock, too.

Newsweek reported that the band has been “quietly removed” from the lineup as other artists such as Shinedown and Morgan Wade have more publicly dropped out.

The band has yet to address why it is no longer listed on the lineup.

The loss of the band is likely a bummer for folks planning to attend the tour because it wasn’t long ago that the band was being pushed by the MAGA world for the same spot — the TPUSA halftime show — that Rock eventually landed.

Jack Posobiec first floated the late Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA hosting Creed for a “counter-Super Bowl halftime show.”

“By every measure Creed has earned the Super Bowl halftime gig,” Posobiec said. “It is time for them to take us Higher. To a place with golden streets.”

He even recently appeared on “The Charlie Kirk Show,” along with conservative podcaster Tim Pool, who was also not a fan of Bad Bunny getting the gig.

“We need Creed,” Posbiec said. “We need (Creed frontman) Scott Stapp flying down from the rafters.”

Meanwhile, Rock’s tour has been hit with multiple performers pulling out as he has come under fire.

TPUSA and the MAGA world have been marketing its Super Bowl LX show as the family friendly, Christian alternative to the NFL’s show with Bad Bunny.

The biggest issue with that marketing though has been Rock’s history and the fact that recordings exist.

The latest problem for the singer and the show being kicked around social media is an appearance by Rock on Saturday Night Live in 2001. During that appearance, Rock reportedly opined about the Olsen Twins, who were born in 1986, and were around 14 or 15 years old at that time.

“Why is every guy in America waiting on these chicks to turn 18?” the singer reportedly said on the show. “I mean, you know what I’m saying? If there’s grass on the field, play ball.”

The resurfaced appearance comes after the singer was already trending on social media for his 2001 song “Cool, Daddy Cool,” which was included on the soundtrack of the movie, “Osmosis Jones.”

JD Vance shared a TPUSA post on X about the show and wrote, “Fantastic lineup for the TPUSA halftime show, including the great Bob Ritchie AKA KID ROCK.”

The lineup for the show — Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett are scheduled to join Rock on the bill — has been widely trolled outside of the MAGA world, but things went to another level after folks remembered the controversial song.

What’s the issue with “Cool, Daddy Cool”?

Well, the lyrics are something else, but Verse 3 is the real problem for Rock.

“Young ladies, young ladies, I like ‘em underage,” Rock sings on the track. “See some say that’s statutory.”

His sidekick at the time, the late Joe-C then chimes in, “But I say it’s mandatory.”

It has not been pretty for Rock since Parker Molloy reshared Vance’s post and shared the lyrics to X and wrote, “Maybe he’ll play this one!”

Rock’s response? Well, he didn’t directly address the controversy, but he did post a meme on X claiming to show a Kobe Bryant quote that was titled, “Mamba Mentality.”

“Learn to love the hate,” it read. “Embrace it. Enjoy it. You earned it. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and everyone should have one about you. Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.”