Dropkick Murphys Honor ‘First Class Loser’ Donald Trump During Warped Tour Set Featuring Jeffrey Epstein Montage

If you still weren’t sure how the Dropkick Murphys feel about Donald Trump, the Celtic punks’ set at the revived Vans Warped Tour in Long Beach, Calif., over the weekend put a hat on their hat of disdain. Singer Ken Casey pulled no punches in introducing their song “First Class Loser,” dedicating it to the President, who happened to be in Ireland on a golf holiday as the band was teeing off on him.

“This next song is dedicated to a guy who wears orange makeup, s–ts in his pants in his diapers,” Casey said, reeling off a litany of insults and lurid allegations about the commander in chief, as seen in fan videos of the performance. The band then broke into the song as the backdrop on the stage featured the message “FDT” as well as videos and pictures of Trump with his former friend and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including a screenshot of a 2002 New York magazine story in which Trump said, “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

In the lyrics to the 2017 song, Casey sings, “He’s nobody’s friend/ Yeah, he’s hated by all reasons/ He only cares about himself/ He parks in handicap spaces… ‘Cause he’s a first class loser/ He’s a first class loser/ He’s a first class loser, I stab him in the eye/ He’s a first class loser/ He’s not my type of guy.”

Trump has been facing repeated questions over the past few weeks from detractors, as well as some of his MAGA diehards, about his connection to Epstein after the administration refused to release more records about late, disgraced financier. Epstein was convicted in 2008 in Florida on charges of procuring a child for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute and later died by suicide in his New York jail cell while awaiting federal charges of sex trafficking of minors.

Prior to the 2008 conviction, Trump had repeatedly talked about his friendship with Epstein and the two were often photographed together at parties in the 1990s. After saying on Monday that he broke with Epstein and banned him from his Mar-a-Lago club two decades ago because Epstein “stole people that worked for me,” on Tuesday Trump clarified that Epstein “stole” young women who worked at the Mar-a-Lago spa, including Virginia Giuffre, one of the most well-known of Epstein’s sex-trafficking accusers.

Giuffre claimed that Epstein’s former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, hired her to be Epstein’s masseuse in 2000 when she was a teenager, later pressuring her to have sex with his powerful friends; Guiffre died by suicide earlier this year.

It isn’t the first time this year the Dropkick Murphys have taken a swing at Trump. On St. Patrick’s Day in March, Casey told an interviewer, “One other thing Dropkick Murphys has always been about is a lot of songs about standing with your friends and family and the things you believe in, whether it’s politics, or just how you were raised. And Donald Trump is the exact opposite of everything we sing about… He’s turned on his friends. He’s turned on America’s friends and our allies. He’s a rat and a coward when you think of it that way.”

During one of their annual St. Patrick’s Day shows at MGM Music Hall at Boston’s Fenway Park on March 16, Casey lambasted a fan who was waving around his red MAGA hat during the show. “If you’re in a room full of people and you want to know who’s in a cult, how do you know who’s in a cult?” Casey asked the crowd. “They’ve been holding up a f—ing hat the whole night to represent a president… This is America, there’s no kings here,” he said, adding, “Anyway, if you mind, sir, we’re gonna play a song about our grandparents and people who fought Nazis in the war and s–t. So if you could just shut the f–k up for five minutes.”

A month earlier, Casey called out a Florida fan rocking MAGA gear at another show, taunting him that the Murphys merch is all made in America and making a “friendly” $100 bet where the man’s Trump gear was manufactured. “If you lose the bet, we switch shirts, OK? If you win the bet, I give you $100 and the shirt,” the singer said to the man before revealing to fans that the MAGA shirt was made in Nicaragua. “He’s taking the shirt off. We’re taking crime off the streets.”