Rapper Kid Rock said former President Donald Trump asked him for foreign policy advice on ISIS and North Korea during a meeting at the White House in 2017, according to the Guardian.
Kid Rock told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that Trump sought his advice on what “we should do about North Korea,” and he remembered thinking, “I don’t think I’m qualified to answer this.”
The musician also said Trump asked for messaging advice on the fight against ISIS.
“I mean, I was there with him one day when he ended the caliphate. He wanted to put out a tweet. And it was like — I don’t like to speak out of school. I hope I’m not. But he said something like, he was like, tell him like — yes, the tweet was — and I’m paraphrasing — but it was like, if you ever joined the caliphate, and trying to do this, you’re going to be dead,” he said. “He goes, what do you think? I go, awesome … Like, yes, tweet that out. I was like, I can’t add anything better.”
Kid Rock said the tweet Trump eventually sent was “reworded and more political and like a little politically correct.”
He also said he and Trump were “looking at maps. I’m like, you know, like, ‘Am I supposed to be in on this shit?’ Like I make dirty records sometimes. I do.”
Rock visited the White House in 2017 with musician Ted Nugent and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
After the meeting Nugent told the New York Times they discussed “‘health, fitness, food, rock’n’roll, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, secure borders, the history of the United States, guns, bullets, bows and arrows, North Korea, Russia and a half-dozen other issues”.
