During a concert in Birmingham country music star Jason Aldean said that he will finance bus trips to other countries for people who refuse to “play by the rules” after making impassioned remarks over Charlie Kirk’s death.
“So it’s pretty simple, man, if you want to live in this country, just play by the rules,” Aldean said.
“Be good people, respect everybody, love everybody, and if you don’t want to do that, I’ll buy you a bus ticket and you can get the f*** out and go wherever you want!”
In a video on X, Aldean is shown making the remarks during his Sept. 26 show as he voices anger over the death of the conservative activist whom Aldean called “one of the best people ever.”
“It’s a sad day in the country when a guy gets murdered for being a Christian conservative, out there talkin’ about the Bible and what’s right and what’s wrong,” Aldean said.
Kirk, co-founder of Turning Point USA, has been valorized by conservatives across the country for his contributions and advocacy across, specifically, college campuses while being an open evangelical Christian.
However, Kirk’s critics argue that he espoused racist and bigoted rhetoric while debating college students to simply post highlights on social media.
Aldean’s comments about Kirk led to him performing the controversial 2023 song, “Try That In A Small Town,” a song the singer says was mischaracterized.
When the song was released it immediately received backlash for demonstrating racist dog whistles to southern sundown towns as the music video was shot at the same location a Black teenager was lynched in 1927.
Aldean at the time said he was unaware of this history but said it would likely be hard to find a southern location, “that hasn’t had some sort of racial issue over the years at some point.”
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