The Daily Beast reports:
After switching from white wine to bourbon and Coke midway through a sitdown with Rolling Stone, the MAGA-loving rocker began “shouting” at the journalist, David Peisner, who reports that his subject proceeded to pull out a handgun and wave it in his face.
“And I got a fucking goddamn gun right here if I need it!” he writes Ritchie yelled. “I got them everywhere!” To be fair, the preceding two hours of the interview were also pockmarked with bizarre exchanges, including a moment where Ritchie railed against immigrants before crying out “9/11!”
But the evening slid off the rails after the gun came out, with Ritchie repeatedly spewing the n-word and berating Peisner, calling him a “college snowflake” and badgering him to “take a shot” at him.
Read the full article. The original piece is behind a paywall.
Kid Rock last appeared here in February 2024 when he called for killing all Gaza residents “40,000 at a time.” That declaration came days after Trump announced a “major fundraiser” featuring Kid Rock.
The first two hours of Rolling Stone’s conversation with Kid Rock were cordial to a degree. Then, Kid Rock got drunk and belligerent, and the evening went off the rails.
Read Rolling Stone’s explosive interview with the rocker: https://t.co/qXcznzqOz5 pic.twitter.com/rAZn7O1ECR
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 20, 2024
At the end of Rolling Stone’s new heated and combative interview with @KidRock, the star asks our writer to come closer, as if he had a secret to share.
“Just write the most horrific article about me. Do it. It helps me.”
Story/Interview: https://t.co/qXcznzqgJx https://t.co/DN1eQK08GR pic.twitter.com/YidQ4MX3od
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 20, 2024
An intoxicated Kid Rock shouted the n-word at a Rolling Stone journalist and then threatened him with a handgun. https://t.co/TCpFwF0u6o
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 20, 2024
Trump Announces “Major Fundraiser” With Kid Rock https://t.co/nkcIDsmPaL pic.twitter.com/M0w2oJHnTk
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) February 1, 2024