Child Rock, Jason Aldean Eliminated NY From Tour Over Trump Civil Fraud Ruling?

In February 2024, a rumor went viral alleging Child Rock and Jason Aldean eliminated New York stops on a live performance tour in protest of a judge’s decision in a civil fraud case to make former U.S. President Donald Trump pay $355 million in penalties.

For example, on Feb. 18, 2024, a Fb post by America’s Final Line of Protection went viral with side-by-side pictures of Aldean and Child Rock and the textual content, “Child Rock and Jason Aldean Take away New York From the ‘You Cannot Cancel America’ Tour: ‘We Help 45’,” referring to Trump’s rating as America’s forty fifth president.

The declare unfold on other social media platforms, as effectively, together with X (previously Twitter), the place some users appeared to indicate help for the singers. Days earlier, a New York decide ordered Trump to pay the penalties in a sweeping civil fraud verdict, discovering he had lied for years about his wealth on monetary statements for loans and to make real-estate offers, The Associated Press reported.

Conservative pundit Brigitte Gabriel wrote, for instance: “Child Rock and Jason Aldean have responded to New York’s excessive assault on President Trump by REMOVING the state from their ‘You Cannot Cancel America Tour.’ This can be a BIG DEAL and an indication of the silent majority rising once more!”

(Screenshot by way of X)

Nonetheless, the declare about Aldean and Child Rock was fictional. Whereas they’ve certainly headlined concerts collectively earlier than, there seemed to be no evidence of a “You Cannot Cancel America Tour,” just like the posts claimed. For the reason that tour was made up, so was the notion they’d eliminated New York dates as a consequence of their emotions on Trump.

The rumor stemmed from an article by The Dunning-Kruger Occasions, a website that’s a part of a community of internet sites and social media accounts operated by America’s Final Line of Protection’s (ALLOD). The article stated:

‘We help 45 [referring to Trump],’ the tour’s web site introduced, ‘Due to this fact, we cannot be bringing the tour to the state that has handled him so poorly.’

The tour was set to play greater than a dozen dates in New York, including untold thousands and thousands to native economies and giving patriotic People residing in a liberal nightmare the prospect to have an evening to themselves. 

The Dunning-Kruger Occasions describes its output as satirical. The web site’s “About Us” part states:

Every part on this web site is fiction. It’s not a lie and it’s not faux information as a result of it’s not actual. In case you imagine that it’s actual, it’s best to have your head examined. Any similarities between this website’s pure fantasy and precise folks, locations, and occasions are purely coincidental and all photographs must be thought-about altered and satirical. See above if you happen to’re nonetheless having a problem with that satire factor.

The web site’s creators call individuals who imagine its tales “taters.” The web site states:

‘Taters’ are the conservative followers of America’s Final Line of Protection. They’re fragile, frightened, largely older caucasian People. They imagine practically something. Whereas we exit of our solution to educate them that not all the pieces they agree with is true, they’re nonetheless previous, sometimes ignorant, and once more — very afraid of all the pieces.

Child Rock has been a vocal supporter of Trump. Additionally, Trump as soon as defended Aldean amid accusations of racist imagery in his “Strive That In A Small City” music video.

We have fact-checked quite a few satirical claims stemming from Dunning-Kruger Occasions, together with one about Aldean supposedly saying Garth Brooks was not welcome at Toby Keith’s candlelight vigil and one other about Mark Wahlberg supposedly becoming a member of Child Rock and Aldean on tour.

For background, right here is why we typically write about satire/humor.

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