Trump reposts Kid Rock’s rant warning of religious civil war in the US

MAGA rapper stokes anti-Islam paranoia in his home state as Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s race against Republican Mike Rogers enters final weeks

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President Donald Trump has reposted a rant from MAGA rapper Kid Rock in which he said he fears his grandchildren being caught up in a future “civil war over religious ideology” with the Muslim population of Michigan, his home state.

“I was born in Dearborn, Michigan,” the musician told Trump. “So was my father. Raised there. My grandfather raised him there.

“And as we know – I don’t know if people understand how it got to be one of the biggest Arab populations outside of the Middle East in the world. I call it more of a religious ideology.

Trump sharing the clip of his inflammatory comment on Truth Social is just the latest example of his intervening in the campaign in the hope of stoking anti-Islam sentiment against El-Sayed.

Last week, the president used his social media platform to berate the candidate as a “Jihadist lunatic who hates our Country, the Black People of Detroit, and wants to see the U.S. fail” in one post and, in another, a “RADICAL Extremist” and “Terrorist Sympathizer.”

The president’s repeated slights on El-Sayed as a Muslim and “Communist” – which began as soon as he beat centrist state representative Haley Stevens in his party’s primary – echo his efforts to deride Zohran Mamdani last year before the latter won the New York City mayoral race and unexpectedly found himself in Trump’s good graces.

With the Michigan Senate race looking tight, Kid Rock joined Trump at a Saturday rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, at which he invoked his history with the state to tell the crowd: “I oppose Islamist extremists whose end goal is to impose Sharia law on this nation!”

He continued: “No religious cult or ideology gets to override our Constitution. Is Islam a religion, ideology, a cult? You will never have the right to force any American citizen to live under it. I guarantee you that.”

Clearly impressed with his performance, the president later took to the stage and said he would “like it” if the rapper ran for office.

However, his allegiance to the MAGA cause has not always been fruitful: it was announced in September that the Patriots Day Freedom Fest in Kentucky, at which he was slated to appear, had been canceled due to poor VIP ticket sales.