{"id":2073810,"date":"2025-10-07T02:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2073810"},"modified":"2025-10-07T02:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:17:17","slug":"maga-melts-down-as-country-star-bashes-ice-in-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/maga-melts-down-as-country-star-bashes-ice-in-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Melts Down as Country Star Bashes ICE in New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"main-article\">\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A country music star wrote a song inspired by ICE, but MAGAworld isn\u2019t loving it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Zach Bryan teased an upcoming song on his Instagram account on Friday, immediately stoking outrage among conservatives who took issue with his unsubtle dig at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cDidn\u2019t wake up, dead or in jail\/Some out of town boys been given a cell\/I\u2019ve got some bad news, woke up missing you\/My friends are all degenerates but they\u2019re all I got,\u201d the snippet begins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe generational story of dropping the plot\/I heard the cops came, cocky motherf\u2014&#8211;s ain\u2019t they?\/And ICE is gonna come bust down your door\/Try to build a house, no bills no more, well I got a telephone\/Kids are all scared and all alone,\u201d Bryan croons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The clip ends with a callback to the musician\u2019s Instagram caption: \u201cThe boss stopped bumping, the rock stopped rolling\/The middle fingers rising and it won\u2019t stop showing\/Got some bad news\/The fading of the red, white and blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bryan turned off the comments on the post, and it wasn\u2019t hard to see why. Loyal MAGA soldiers blasted him in furious posts on X, while others left their angry comments under his older Instagram posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson took a swipe at Bryan even as he acknowledged that the singer set a record for the largest ticketed concert in U.S. history last month after his show at Michigan Stadium drew over 112,000 fans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Oembed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"Oembed \" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" data-testid=\"oembed-container\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"Oembed__html\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Country superstar Zach Bryan takes aim at ICE, claiming the country is fading in a snippet from his upcoming song \u201cBad News.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCocky motherf*ckers ain\u2019t they. And ICE is gonna come, bust down your door. The fading of the red, white, and blue\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He just drew over 112,000 fans to\u2026 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b84EtNYCRR\">pic.twitter.com\/b84EtNYCRR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1975290487926935876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe just drew over 112,000 fans to what became the largest concert in U.S. history last week. Now, that will never happen again. When will they learn?\u201d Johnson wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bryan, 29, was born in an American military base in Okinawa, Japan, where his father served the U.S. Navy. Their family moved to Oklahoma when Bryan was a teenager, and he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-zach-bryan-parents-8416973')\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-zach-bryan-parents-8416973\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-zach-bryan-parents-8416973\">joined the Navy<\/a> soon after as an aviation ordnanceman. He was honorably discharged in 2021 to pursue a career in music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Conservative commentator Rogan O\u2019Handley, who goes by DC Draino online, called for a boycott.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe were just invaded by over 10 million illegal aliens and who does Zach Bryan cheer for? The illegals,\u201d he said. \u201cI smell a boycott brewing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"Oembed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"Oembed \" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" data-testid=\"oembed-container\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"Oembed__html\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We were just invaded by over 10 million illegal aliens and who does Zach Bryan cheer for?<\/p>\n<p>The illegals<\/p>\n<p>I smell a boycott brewing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qZKTe3Rudh\">https:\/\/t.co\/qZKTe3Rudh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DC_Draino\/status\/1975298746616586584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fox News host <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/x.com\/TomiLahren\/status\/1975251953169899761')\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomiLahren\/status\/1975251953169899761\" rel=\"\">Tomi Lahren<\/a> dismissed the song as \u201ctrash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Avid MAGA influencer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/x.com\/catturd2\/status\/1975241882730176766')\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/catturd2\/status\/1975241882730176766\" rel=\"\">Catturd<\/a> claimed that the song was a \u201cdesperate Hail Mary\u201d from Bryan, whose \u201cnon-career is in the toilet.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Since entering the country music scene in 2019, Bryan has collected four Grammy nominations, including Best Country Album for his eponymous record and Best Country Song for \u201cI Remember Everything.\u201d Last year, the hit song won him the Grammy for Best Country Duo\/Group Performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">John Rich mocked his fellow country musician in an X post that referenced the backlash to the trio formerly known as Dixie Chicks when they came out against former President George Bush and the Iraq War. He also threw in a nod to Bud Light, which got boycotted after a promo with transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWho\u2019s ready for the Zach Bryan-Dixie Chicks tour? Prob a huge Bud Light sponsorship for this one,\u201d Rich wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bryan publicly expressed support for transgender people after the Bud Light controversy broke out in 2023, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics('https:\/\/people.com\/country\/zach-bryan-quotes-travis-tritt-song-condemns-transphobia\/')\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/country\/zach-bryan-quotes-travis-tritt-song-condemns-transphobia\/\" rel=\"\">writing on X<\/a> at the time: \u201cI just think insulting transgender people is completely wrong because we live in a country where we can all just be who we want to be. It\u2019s a great day to be alive I thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Department of Homeland Security and representatives for Bryan did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thedailybeast.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A country music star wrote a song inspired by ICE, but MAGAworld isn\u2019t loving it. Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Zach Bryan teased an upcoming song on his Instagram account on Friday, immediately stoking outrage among conservatives who took issue with his unsubtle dig at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. \u201cDidn\u2019t wake up, dead or in jail\/Some out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[143276,143876],"class_list":["post-2073810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-maga","tag-zach-bryan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073811,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073810\/revisions\/2073811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}