At this point, it’s not all that surprising that Kid Rock would choose an offensive Halloween costume, but people are disgusted by it nonetheless. Once again, the musician appeared on Fox News (he previously talked to host Jesse Watters about the declining birth rate and blamed it on “ugly a– broke crazy liberal women“). This time, Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Richie, used a discriminatory slur to talk about his Halloween costume while also making light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
During the recent appearance, Kid Rock asked Jesse about his Halloween costume. Watters said that he and his family are planning on dressing up as Scooby-Doo characters. “I’m Shaggy,” Watters answered. “So, I’m gonna kind of dress like you.” While Watters was still talking about his costume, Kid Rock put a medical mask over his face and said, “Guess what I’m gonna be.”
In response, Watters said, “What? Anthony [Fauci]?” But his guess was incorrect. Instead, Kid Rock used the r-word to describe his Halloween costume. Watters laughed and said, “Okay, I guess you can be anything.”
On Reddit, people slammed both Kid Rock and Watters and said they clearly “peaked in high school.” One critic wrote, “MAGA caters to the pathetic ‘men’ who peaked in middle school and always needed an enemy.” Another accused them of acting like “edgy high school kids.”
A third critic simply wrote, “Can we please get the adults back in charge now? I’m tired of playtime.”
Though is now Kid Rock mocking those who continue to try to protect themselves and others from contracting Covid-19, he once encouraged people to wear masks. In April 2020, near the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the singer took to Instagram to share a photo that showed him wearing a cloth mask. “Protect yourself and others by making a homemade cloth mask,” he wrote at the time. “Join the #MiMaskChallenge.”
Clearly, he has since changed his mind about masking. In 2022, he announced that he made the decision to cancel shows at venues that had Covid precautions in place. “There’s been a lot of talk about vaccine mandates and venues, people saying, ‘I’m not going to that venue because there’s a vaccine mandate’ and this, that and the other,'” he said at the time.
He went on to say that if he found out that any venues he was set to perform at had precautions in place, he would issue refunds. “You’ll be getting your money back because I won’t be showing up, either,” he continued. “If you think I’m going to sit out there and sing, ‘Don’t Tell Me How to Live’ and ‘We the People’ while people are holding up their (expletive) vaccine cards and wearing masks, that (expletive) ain’t happening.”
