Kid Rock will join Donald Trump Jr. for Trump rally in Michigan

Detroit Free Press Published 9:26 a.m. ET Sept. 14, 2020

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Kid Rock will join Donald Trump Jr. in an event to promote the president’s reelection campaign Monday.

The two will also be joined by Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump Jr.’s girlfriend who serves as President Donald Trump’s senior adviser.

The event will take place at Bumpers Landing Boat Club in Harrison Township at 7 p.m. This will be the second campaign event for Trump in Michigan in a week.

This isn’t the first time the Detroit rocker has publicly gotten political. A vocal Trump supporter, Kid Rock has expressed support for the president in the past, posting a photo next to Trump on a golf course. 

Donald Trump Jr., and his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle arrive before President Donald Trump speaks from the South Lawn of the White House on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

 (Photo: Evan Vucci, Associated Press)

In June 2019, he described the president as “down-to-earth and cool,” while reflecting on his “awesome” round of golf with Trump at the Detroit Golf Club in March, where they talked politics among “everything else.”

“I always thought Obama was cool as (expletive). I didn’t like his politics, but I’m like: That’s one cool (expletive). You kind of have to be for president,” Rock said. “Trump was just off the map, I have to say. And that’s politics aside,” he said in June.

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That same year, he received backlash on social media for insulting Taylor Swift in August, writing that she “wants to be a democrat (sic) because she wants to be in movies.”

“And it looks like she will suck the door knob off Hollyweird to get there. Oldest move in the book. Good luck girl,” he continued. 

Celebrities such as Chrissy Teigen and Patricia Arquette responded to the “All Summer Long” singer’s tweet, with the former calling him “pathetic.”

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Contributing: Sara Moniuszko, Brian McCollum

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