Kid Rock Appears With Donald Trump In Oval Office As POTUS Signs Executive Order On Concert Ticket Reselling

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Kid Rock appeared with Donald Trump successful the Oval Office connected Monday evening for what has go a regular ritual for the president: the signing of an enforcement order.

This time, the EO was aimed astatine summons scalping. The bid simply directs the Federal Trade Commission to enactment with the Attorney General to marque definite that laws are enforced.

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The entertainer, appearing successful a red, achromatic and bluish outfit, said the occupation is successful summons resellers utilizing bots and algorithms to bargain up blocks of prized performance tickets and driving up the price.

“Anyone who has bought a performance summons successful the past decade, possibly 20 years, not substance what, knows it is simply a conundrum,” Kid Rock said. “[T]hey get each the bully tickets to your favourite shows you privation to spell to, and past they are relisted instantly sometimes for a 4[00], 500 percent markup.”

He said artists don’t spot immoderate of that money. “Ultimately, I deliberation this is simply a large archetypal step,” the instrumentalist said. “I would emotion down the roadworthy if there’d beryllium immoderate authorities that could really enactment a headdress connected the resale of tickets.”

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Trump referred to Kid Rock arsenic “Bob,” for his existent name, Robert James Ritchie. Kid Rock has acceptable up a gathering with Trump and Bill Maher, who agelong has made the president a butt of his jokes and satire. The rocker’s quality mightiness awesome that a gathering volition instrumentality spot soon, with 1 root saying it could hap arsenic soon arsenic Tuesday. The White House and reps for Maher did not respond to requests for comment.

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Trump wrote connected Truth Social connected Sunday: “I got a telephone from a precise bully guy, and person of mine, Kid Rock, asking maine whether oregon not it would beryllium imaginable for maine to meet, successful the White House, with Bill Maher, a antheral who has been unjustifiably captious of anything, oregon anyone, TRUMP. I truly didn’t similar the thought much, and don’t similar it overmuch now, but thought it would beryllium interesting. The occupation is, nary substance however overmuch helium likes your Favorite President, ME, helium volition publically proclaim what a unspeakable feline I am, etc., precise overmuch similar the Democrats astatine my caller Address to the Joint Session of Congress, wherever I stated, correctly, that nary substance what I said oregon did, they wouldn’t stand, they wouldn’t applaud, they wouldn’t grin oregon laughter and, certainly, they wouldn’t beryllium successful immoderate mode ‘nice.’ Who knows, though, possibly I’ll beryllium proven wrong? In immoderate event, I’m doing a favour for a friend. I look guardant to gathering with Bill Maher, Kid Rock and, I believe, adjacent the Legendary Dana White volition beryllium present. It mightiness beryllium amusive or, it mightiness not, but you volition beryllium the archetypal to know!”

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