This year's Super Bowl Halftime Show proved to be controversial with the country seemingly split on supporting it or hating it. On one side, President Donald Trump voiced his distain for Bad Bunny and the show. But the singer had plenty of supporters including this country singer.
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Grammy nominated songwriter Charley Crockett supported Bad Bunny and unloaded on the president in a fiery rant. In an Instagram post, Crockett made his thoughts loud and clear on what he thought about the president.
"They keep saying I'm a cosplay cowboy but they love a cosplay president," Crockett wrote on Instagram. "Some folks have been on here calling Muhammad Ali a draft dodger when yall got one in the White House. When I was at the Grammys the other night I saw a guy get up and talk about Jesus, and then I saw Bad Bunny get up there and talk like Jesus. The country music establishment should be taking notes on a Puerto Rican American who hasn't forgotten his heritage and brought his culture's traditional music back to the front, showing the world something new with it."
Singer Calls Out Trump
He also wrote, "The President is a grifter who bankrupted 6 casinos. That's pretty extraordinary considering it's a rigged business in favor of the house. The only thing he's good at is filing lawsuits and portraying a successful business man as a reality TV actor. Last time I checked Elon Musk was an immigrant from South Africa but there he is standing in the White House buying our elections. Let's deport his a- and send Peter Thiel back with him since they both openly believe in a post democratic society where men of their class are above the law."
Crockett didn't mince his words when criticizing Trump and his thoughts on the president. The singer continued to share his thoughts.
Crockett continued, "Forgive me if I have a problem with a 34 time convicted felon running this country when I lost the right to vote or own a weapon for years over marijuana. As long as you're hating the oppressed and loving your oppressor you'll never know why our generation is poorer than our parents and grandparents. As a great man once said it's welfare for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor. If you can sleep at night licking their boots that's between you and yours, but that type of thinking isn't freedom. It's mental slavery. Every single right we have as a people wasn't handed to us. We had to fight and take it."
The Artist of the Year nominee concluded with a quote from Muhammad Ali.
Crockett wrote, "Judge a man by how he treats the poor and those who he views as being able to do nothing for him. Don't forget why Muhammad Ali said 'I am America.' Remember the coal miners of Harlan County, Kentucky. I believe in what we can be. Ride on."
