President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden could only invite a relative few people to their second debate in Nashville, Tennessee, during the 2020 presidential campaign.
Biden invited a North Carolina couple who had struggled to keep their restaurant open during the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump could have invited someone who once did something admirable or perhaps did something nice to someone.
But he didn’t know anyone like that and no one he knew did either.
Trump could have ingratiated himself to evangelical Christians, his most loyal supporters, by inviting a popular minister.
But he didn’t.
Instead, Trump turned to his next most loyal group: has-been, never-were, and morally and ethically questionable lowlife entertainers and athletes.
He invited John Daly and Kid Rock, or Robert James Ritchie, as he’s known in police blotters.
Kid Ritchie Rock, a white rapper, has been involved in such controversies as cutting a hole in an American flag during a Super Bowl halftime show to demonstrate his patriotism; releasing a sex tape involving another singer and four woman on a tour bus; getting into a fight with Motley Crue frontman Tommy Lee; flying a Confederate flag onstage during a concert; posing in a photo with singer Ted Nugent after they had killed a cougar; screaming an obscenity in response to NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick after he had kneeled during the National Anthem before a game; selling pro-Trump T-shirts; using an obscenity in attacking Oprah Winfrey; attacking trans people during a concert; and using the “N” word on a video.
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In March 2022, Rock told Tucker Carlson of Fox News that Trump asked his advice on what to say in a tweet about the Islamic State before asking his advice on North Korea.
I’m like, ‘What? I don’t think I’m qualified to answer this,’” the rapper said he thought when Trump asked him during a chat in 2018.
Rock, to his credit, was no less qualified to comment on North Korea than Trump.
He said that Trump then showed him maps of North Korea.
“I’m like, you know, like, ‘Am I supposed to be in on this shit?’ Like I make dirty records sometimes. I do,” Rock told Carlson.
According to him, Trump also “wanted to put out a tweet” about the U.S. military’s battle against the Islamic State and ran it by him first, though it later came out “reworded” and “politically correct.”
The Daily Beast reported that Trump was often criticized while he was president for revealing sensitive information to guests at Mar-a-Lago. The National Archives confirmed that Trump had removed classified documents from the White House and taken them Mar-a-Lago.
