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Kid Rock<\/a> won’t rest until everyone knows his views on the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n The conservative country rock singer appeared on Friday’s episode of the Fox News<\/a> program Jesse Watters Primetime<\/em><\/a>, where he asked the host a simple, seemingly politically neutral question: “What are you going to be for Halloween?” Watters explained that he and his family would be donning group costumes as the Scooby-Doo Mystery Gang. The smile that cracked across Rock’s face when he prompted Watters to reciprocate the question suggested it was never neutral, and never intended solely as a question for the host.<\/p>\n “What? [Anthony Fauci]?” Watters asked, invoking the former head of the Centers for Disease Control, whose handling of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to draw ire from Rock. No, the musician born Robert James Ritchie wouldn’t be dressing as the public health official, but as “a r-word,” he announced, while holding a face mask over his mouth.<\/p>\n Watters burst into laughter when Rock dropped the word, which has long been condemned<\/a> by differently abled individuals and advocate groups as derogatory and discriminatory.<\/p>\n “Okay, I guess you can be anything,” Watters joked. All smiles, Rock declared, “Greatest costume ever!”<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Rock has become a tirelessly vocal critic of many aspects of the pandemic, especially vaccine and mask mandates. In 2022, the “Only God Knows Why” singer vowed to skip all venues<\/a> that impose the mandates on their performers and audiences.<\/p>\n That same year, he immortalized those views with the song “We the People,” which included lyrics like, “Wear your mask, take your pills \/ Now a whole generation’s mentally ill” and “But COVID’s near, it’s coming to town \/ We gotta act quick, shut our borders down.”<\/p>\n But Rock wasn’t always opposed to such measures to keep Americans safe from the potentially deadly respiratory virus. Shortly after the global breakout of COVID-19 in 2020, Rock posted a selfie<\/a> to his Instagram wearing a handmade mask with the caption, “Protect yourself and others by making a homemade cloth mask. Join the #MiMaskChallenge.”<\/p>\n