Tucker Carlson comments go viral as Kid Rock’s opening act

Responses Tucker Carlson created even though opening for Child Rock all through a tour stop in Gonzales, Louisiana, have long gone viral on social media.

Child Rock, born Robert James Ritchie, is performing in the Rock the Country tour, which sees the musician consider the phase with stars these types of as Jason Aldean and Miranda Lambert.

The tour has two-day stops planned in seven little towns and cities across the U.S. among April and July, browsing Louisiana, Florida, Missouri, Alabama, Kentucky, Ga and South Carolina.

The tour kicked off at Gonzales’ Lamar Dixon Expo Heart on April 5 and 6, and previous Fox News host Carlson served as a shock opener for Kid Rock. Video clip footage of Carlson at the present was posted on X, previously Twitter, on April 7.

Standing driving a lectern emblazoned with Kid Rock’s name and “United States of ‘Merica,” Carlson stated his overall look at the demonstrate.

“I wound up below tonight simply because I was owning meal at my household with Kid Rock a couple of months in the past,” the commentator advised the crowd.

He ongoing: “He said, ‘You must arrive and open for me on my summer time tour.’ And I reported, ‘Well, I’m honored, of system, but I really don’t play an instrument. Truly, I’m an unemployed converse-display host, so what would I do at your show?’ And he claimed, and I am quoting now, ‘You will figure it out, and you will like it.’

“So that was two months in the past. And I woke up this morning, and I believed, I gotta go to Gonzales, Louisiana, and open up for Kid Rock. What am I gonna say? And I had no plan until I bought listed here.”

Carlson, who interviewed Kid Rock in December, also claimed that right after waking up that early morning, he experienced long gone on the world-wide-web and came to the summary that the U.S. is “f***** up”—until he got to Gonzales.

“The place they tell me about on the online is f***** up. The state that I experience when I wander as a result of this group, or when I wake up in my town of 100 people in a rural area, is a lovely state loaded with gorgeous men and women,” he included.

The Tv character also stated he was drawn to a lighting rig at the location since it was in the variety of a cross. “A condition I like,” he included.

“As I’m strolling out [to the rig], this chick gets proper in my confront. She’s got two nose rings, a cross necklace and a Trump bracelet. And she seems at me proper in the confront, and she goes, ‘Ahhhhh!’ And she stated, ‘I appreciate you.’ And I mentioned, ‘I like you, much too.’ And I meant it. And I assumed, That is the America that I know. A tiny odd, a little bit outrageous, entire of love, and stunning. And that describes the man I am listed here to introduce.”

Carlson also informed the cheering group that traveling very long distances for the night’s display was “worth it,” introducing: “Can you put a value on residing free in the previous no cost nation? So enable me tell you, my fellow People, what we have acquired. All collected right here tonight are free people today united by our like of region and below God.

“And in the name of that region and that God, we are below to celebrate a get together that will not cease. And so, as I know you can, please be as noisy and disobedient as possible for Child f****** Rock.”

Carlson’s whole speech was shared on X by Benny Johnson, a conservative commentator, where by it has been given additional than 850,000 sights. Ron Filipkowski, a previous federal prosecutor and the editor-in-chief of the liberal outlet MeidasTouch, shared a snippet of Carlson’s speech that has obtained more than 150,000 sights.