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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Victoria Bekiempis

Kid Rock decries settlement reached between Live Nation and Trump’s justice department

A thin middle-aged man in a garish outfit stands next to a smiling older man sitting at a desk with a portrait of Ronald Reagan on the wall.
Kid Rock and Donald Trump in the Oval Office on 31 March 2025. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Kid Rock thinks it’s bawita-bad that the US Department of Justice reached a shocking settlement with Live Nation one week into its antitrust trial.

A close ally of Donald Trump, the rightwing rocker expressed bewilderment over the settlement, telling former Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman that he was shocked by the news.

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