President Donald Trump sat beside musician Kid Rock inside the Oval Office on Monday to sign an executive order cracking down on ticket scalping and price-gouging for live events such as concerts and sporting events.
BREAKING: With Kid Rock in attendance, President Trump signs executive order targeting unfair scalping of concert tickets pic.twitter.com/70z6wUeRod
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) March 31, 2025
Trump directed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to ensure competition laws are appropriately enforced, apply the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act, ensure price transparency, and take enforcement action to prevent unfair, deceptive, and anti-competitive conduct in the secondary ticketing market.
Kid Rock, whose name is Robert Ritchie, told the press that the order should help consumers who are fed up with hidden fees raising ticket prices and bots purchasing all the tickets in order to relist them at a higher price.
Ritchie also explained that artists such as himself have little to no control over the prices of tickets for their shows, saying he’d love to lower the cost so working class people could more easily afford to attend his concerts.
Kid Rock lays it out.
— Desiree (@DesireeAmerica4) March 31, 2025
Trump’s executive order takes down the scalpers, the bots, and the hidden fees.
Real fans. Real prices. No more getting ripped off.
Stadium price = your price.
Big W for the people. pic.twitter.com/y0TC3tizGv
At one point, the president asked Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy, “Did Biden do news conferences like this?”
Doocy responded with a quip about Ritchie’s outfit, saying, “He [Biden] was never standing next to somebody who looked like they were about to be shot out of a cannon.”
Peter Doocy pokes fun at Kid Rock's outfit:
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 1, 2025
Trump: "Did Biden do news conferences like this?"
Peter Doocy: "No. He was never standing next to someone who looked like they were about to be shot out of a cannon."pic.twitter.com/f4GQV4BFZh
Ritchie was able to play on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s grand piano during the White House visit.
The executive order should be universally celebrated by Americans regardless of political ideology as it benefits consumers and artists alike.
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