Kid Rock Blames Women for Not Liking Trump

Kid Rock has blamed women for Donald Trump's image issues, as he opened up about his friendship with the former president—and called him the "toughest son of a b**** I know"—during an interview with Tucker Carlson.

The musician has been a fervent supporter of the Republican since he won his first presidential election in 2016, and the two have been seen spending time together golfing and attending UFC fights over the years.

And as Trump makes another bid for the White House next year—following his loss to President Joe Biden in 2020—Rock is touting the onetime real estate mogul as "the greatest president" the U.S. has "ever had."

"I love spending time with him, getting to know him, since he became president the first few months, having dinner at the White House with him and from there on we've just really hit it off. I can relate to him in a lot of ways," Rock told Carlson during an appearance on his new streaming platform, Tucker Carlson Network.

Noting that Trump has a reputation for saying "what's on his mind," the "Bawitdaba" hitmaker added that "if you look at [Trump's] track record and who he is as a whole, there's a lot more good there than anything."

Later on in the interview, Rock, who last year said Trump once asked him for advice on North Korea, went on to state that the U.S. was flourishing under his leadership, before blaming women for any cracks in his reputation.

"I don't know how you look at his track record and how he had this country firing on all cylinders when he was in office, everybody working, military's the strongest, he's leading with strength, borders under control, energy independent, you can go on and on," the star said.

"I don't get get it... Seems like it's a lot of women, in my life who...are like, 'I don't like the way he talks.' It's like, 'Come on, you're not putting him in the office to hear him talk nice.' How many years have we had of that?'"

An Emerson College poll of 500 likely GOP voters conducted in Kentucky in May found that Trump is the overwhelming favorite in the Bluegrass State to clinch the 2024 Republican nomination. The former president beat his biggest rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, by 56 points (70 percent to 14 percent).

The survey was conducted after a jury in New York found Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll, a former Elle columnist, at a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the 1990s. The Republican then defamed her while denying the accusations.

Despite this, there was a higher percentage of female voters (52.3 percent) who said they would support Trump in the next GOP primary in Kentucky than male voters (47.2), with the rest identifying as non-binary.

In comparison, of the 14 percent who said they would back DeSantis, more than half (51.5 percent) were males. The Florida governor received the backing of 47.1 percent of women and 1.5 percent non-binary.

Former The Apprentice star Trump has been accused of sexual assault by more than a dozen women, which he denies. He once boasted of grabbing women "by the p***y" as heard in the infamous Access Hollywood tape. However, the former president has still been able to rely on female voters in elections.

Trump's vote-share among women in the 2020 election improved from 2016, rising from 39 percent to 44 percent. This was according to analysis from the Pew Research Center.

A Trump spokesperson previously told Newsweek: "President Trump continues to dominate in poll after poll—both nationally and statewide. There is no substitute for victory and President Trump will take back the White House in 2024."

Elsewhere in his Sunday interview with Carlson, Rock suggested that Trump is largely unbothered as he continues to fight a lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James over the fraudulent evaluation of Trump properties.

Trump, the frontrunner in the polls for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, testified in the fraud trial on November 6 and has denied any wrongdoing.

Donald Trump, his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and senior executives at The Trump Organization, are also accused of assisting the former president and have testified in the trial stating they barely had any involvement with the annual financial statements of the company, which they had signed. Instead, they said they relied on the accounting firm they had hired.

When Carlson asked how Trump seemed amid his legal woes, Rock responded that you "can't tell" there's an issue, adding: "When we're golfing, when we're hanging out in different scenarios here and there, his spirits are always up and he's always talking about this country and how he wants to win for it."

"Somebody that's in that office, in any office, that wants to win for this country, I'm in," he went on. "I've never seen anybody who wants to win for this country like [Trump], and I don't think we'll ever see anything like it in our lifetime. He's the greatest president we've ever had."

"Is he p***** off? Sure," Rock added. "I don't want to speak out of school, but who's not gonna hem and haw a little bit about the people that are doing this to him, these people in New York. It's a freaking joke."

Calling anybody who would back the idea of Trump inflating his property values "a stupid son of a b****," he said: "[Trump] takes loans from the bank, whatever, he pays them all back, everybody makes money. There's no crime here... Anybody who can't see they're f****** with him is just blind."