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President Donald Trump has reposted a speech by MAGA rapper Kid Rock in which he fears his grandchildren will be drawn into a future “civil war over religious ideology” with the Muslim population of Michigan, his home state.
Speaking to Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, on her Fox News show My point of view On Sunday, Rock weighed in on Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s midterm battle against Republican rival Mike Rogers and called the progressive a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
“I was born in Dearborn, Michigan,” the musician told Trump. “My father too. He grew up there. My grandfather raised him there.
“And as we know, I don’t know if people understand how it became one of the largest Arab populations in the world outside of the Middle East. I call it more of a religious ideology.
“I know there are extremists and there are softer versions of them. I don’t want my grandchildren to ever have to fight a civil war because of religious ideology. It’s scary. I think El-Sayed is a wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
Trump sharing the clip of his incendiary comment on Truth Social is just the latest example of his intervening in the campaign in hopes of stoking anti-Islam sentiment against El-Sayed.
Last week, the president used his social media platform to berate the candidate, calling him a “crazy jihadist who hates our country, the black people of Detroit, and wants to see the United States fail” in one post and, in another, a “radical extremist” and a “sympathizer of terrorism.”
He also repeatedly called him “Mohammad” or Mohammed,” the only point on which El-Sayed hit back. “He knows my name is Abdul,” the Democrat wrote on X. “He says it every day. But he’s not just attacking me. He attacks us all.
The president’s repeated slights against El-Sayed as a Muslim and a “communist” — which began as soon as he defeated centrist state Rep. Haley Stevens in his party’s primary — echo his efforts to ridicule Zohran Mamdani last year before the latter won the New York mayor’s race and unexpectedly found himself in Trump’s good graces.
El-Sayed gave as good as he got, however, mocking the president over his close ties to his executive assistant Natalie Harp and sarcastically referring to Vice President JD Vance’s “Ohio charisma” after the latter said his candidacy only appealed to “self-hating white liberals.”
With Michigan’s Senate race looking tight, Kid Rock joined Trump at a rally Saturday in Clarksville, Tennessee, where he invoked his history with the state to tell the crowd, “I oppose Islamist extremists whose ultimate goal is to impose Sharia law on this nation!”
He continued: “No sect or religious ideology can override our Constitution. Is Islam a religion, an ideology, a sect? You will never have the right to force any American citizen to live by that. I guarantee it.”
“We will never be one nation under Muhammad because we are and always will be one nation under God,” he concluded, offering no evidence to support his alarmism.
Visibly impressed by his performance, the president then took the stage and said he “would love” for the rapper to run for office.
Rock’s relationship with Trump appears to have grown closer in recent years. A row erupted within the Department of Defense earlier this year after an Army helicopter conducted a flyby near his Nashville home in late March, and the star revealed this summer that he liked to call the president when he was drinking to impress his friends.
However, his allegiance to the MAGA cause hasn’t always been successful: it was announced in September that the Patriots Day Freedom Fest in Kentucky, which he was scheduled to attend, had been canceled due to poor VIP ticket sales.
Elsewhere in his interview with Lara Trump, Rock also claimed, “The devil lives in Hollywood,” and assured the host, “I saw him there. It’s not a joke. People are disgusting there.”
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