Trump Teaming Up With Kid Rock To Fight Ticket Scalpers Certainly Wasn’t On My 2025 Predictions

Ticket scalpers have become so bad that Kid Rock has had to team up with the literal president to combat them. What has the world come to?

Per The Guardian, Kid Rock met up with Donald Trump to sign an executive order to introduce “commonsense reforms” to fight the exploitative nature of ticket scalping. The images are even crazier than that sounds.

Kid Rock has been on a tirade against ticket scalping for a while and has previously met up with an attorney general to discuss the topic. Fans having to forfeit going to see their favorite artists or part with egregious amounts of money is something Kid Rock has been vehemently opposed to.

“Anyone who’s bought a concert ticket in the last decade, maybe 20 years – no matter what your politics are – knows that it’s a conundrum,” Kid Rock said.

The order will make it so that the treasury secretary and attorney general must ensure that scalpers reselling tickets at a higher price than their face value are operating in full compliance with the IRS rules. Of course, this doesn’t completely fix the issue, but Kid Rock hailed it as a “great first step.”

It’s brilliant to see the issue be taken so seriously and that something has finally been done to stop this audacious monopoly. But it just reminds me how low politics have fallen.

Politics Have Become A Parody Of Its Former Self

Despite this being an important issue, I can’t help but shake my head in disbelief when seeing a rhinestone-studded and flashy Kid Rock standing next to Donald Trump to sign an executive order to combat this issue. It’s almost satirical, as though a parody on what politics is.

Seeing a garish red “so-American-my-teeth-are-hurting” suit in the Oval Office is like seeing a suited-and-booted British Bulldog in Parliament. The whole thing just becomes a joke.

And all this to sign off on ticket scalpers? This appears far below the president’s pay grade. I mean, it’s great that this issue getting presidential attention, but at the same time there are much more important things that Trump should be doing instead of personally fussing over Ticketmaster.

At the end of the day, I suppose it’s a win. Ticket scalpers and their crushing monopoly over the concert industry are (hopefully) finally seeing their final days. I just hope the theatrics on display in the Oval Office isn’t the start of a slippery satirical slope.