Crockett labeled President Donald Trump a “grifter,” called for the deportation of Texas-based billionaire Elon Musk and Palantir Technologies co-founder Peter Thiel, and chastised supporters whom he said were “licking their boots.”
The post came after Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime performance, which Crockett said the “country music establishment should be taking notes” from. He praised Bad Bunny as “a Puerto Rican American who hasn’t forgotten his heritage and brought his culture’s traditional music back to the front.”
In the Instagram post, Crockett criticized Trump as someone who is only good at filing lawsuits and portraying himself as a successful businessman on reality TV, calling him “a grifter who bankrupted six casinos.”
“Forgive me if I have a problem with a 34-time convicted felon running this country when I lost the right to vote or own a weapon for years over marijuana,” Crockett wrote.
He also took aim at Musk — whose aerospace company SpaceX is based in Texas — claiming the South Africa-born billionaire is “standing in the White House buying our elections.” Crockett went on to call for the deportation of Musk and Thiel, writing that the two “openly believe in a post-democratic society where men of their class are above the law.”
Crockett also addressed supporters of Trump, Musk and Thiel.
“As long as you’re hating the oppressed and loving your oppressor, you’ll never know why our generation is poorer than our parents and grandparents,” he wrote. “As a great man once said, it’s welfare for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.”
“If you can sleep at night licking their boots, that’s between you and yours, but that type of thinking isn’t freedom,” Crockett said. “It’s mental slavery.”
The “$10 Cowboy” singer has long been vocal about his political views on social media. In October, Crockett criticized the Trump administration’s decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”
He ended the post by urging fans to take action and fight to protect personal rights.
Reactions in the comments were mixed. Some fans criticized Crockett, saying that they couldn’t stand behind his politics, while others praised the singer for using his platform to speak out. As of Tuesday, the Instagram post has amassed more than 80,000 likes and 6,000 comments.
“Judge a man by how he treats the poor and those who he views as being able to do nothing for him. Don’t forget why Muhammad Ali said, ‘I am America,’” Crockett wrote at the end of the post. “Remember the coal miners of Harlan County, Kentucky. I believe in what we can be. Ride on.”