Donald J. Trump holds his first public campaign rally at the Van Andel Arena on July 20, 2024 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Eight years after he first became president of the United States, Donald Trump is once again running for re-election in 2024.
His latest campaign follows one term in the White House that began in 2016 after he defeated Hillary Clinton, plus another four years out of the job thanks to Joe Biden winning the race in 2020. This time around, the 78-year-old businessman-turned-politician faces a new opponent: Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic party’s presumptive nominee.
And while an outpouring of musicians have voiced their support for Harris, so, too, have a number of famous faces endorsed Trump ahead of the big vote in November. With Ohio senator JD Vance by his side as running mate, the twice-impeached ex-POTUS has received backing from artists of all backgrounds, from country stars such as Jason Aldean and Kid Rock to hip-hop hell-raisers like Kanye West and Sexyy Red.
His campaign has only grown more polarizing in light of his felony convictions in May, with a Manhattan jury finding him guilty of 34 charges of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The same can be said about the apparent assassination attempt against him at his rally in Pennsylvania, an act of violence that was subsequently condemned by politicians on both sides of the aisle.
As more artists speak out, Billboard will continue to update this list to reflect all of the big names who are riding for Trump in 2024. For now, keep reading to see who in the music world has expressed support for the New York native’s third White House bid — so far, at least — below.
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Azealia Banks
Azealia Banks confirmed she’d be voting for Trump in 2024 during an interview with The Standard last fall. “He’s just f–king funnyyy,” she told the publication. “He’s been through how many bankruptcies? How many wives? How many television shows? Seriously, nothing can take him down.”
In July, she attended Trump’s campaign rally in Florida.
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Billy Ray Cyrus
Though his daughter Miley has condemned Trump in the past, Billy Ray Cyrus supports the Republican candidate. Trump called out the country singer at his rally in July — “Billy Ray Cyrus is here … he’s a conservative guy, I said, ‘How did you get such a liberal daughter?’” — and the musician performed at the funeral for Corey Comperatore, a supporter who died in the line of fire at Trump’s Pennsylvania rally where the assassination attempt took place.
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DaBaby
DaBaby revealed he plans on voting for Trump this year in a 2022 episode of the Full Send podcast. “Do I f–k with Trump? Now? Hell yeah,” the rapper said at the time. “Trump is a gangster.”
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Jason Aldean
Jason Aldean has long been one of Trump’s biggest supporters in the music industry, and he’s even developed a friendship with the politician behind the scenes. Following the assassination attempt against Trump, the country star posted a photo of the candidate’s bloody ear — “This is what a warrior looks like … this is my guy,” Aldean wrote — and in November 2023, he told the Los Angeles Times, “I have nothing but good things to say about the guy.”
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Kanye West
After supporting Trump throughout his 2016-2020 presidency, Ye — in spite of having his own White House aspirations through the years — renewed his support for the politician in 2024. “Of course, it’s Trump all day!” he told paparazzi in February.
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Kid Rock
Kid Rock is one of Trump’s most vocal supporters in the music industry. Before performing in the Republican candidate’s honor at the RNC in July, the musician called Trump “our tried and true, red, white and blue, 100 percent American bada‑‑ president” in a video on social media.
Prior to that, he opened up about his support of Trump in a May interview with Rolling Stone, during which he also reportedly used the N-word multiple times. “You think I like Trump because he’s a nice guy?” Rock says. “I’m not electing the deacon of a church. That motherf–ker likes to win. He likes to cheat in his f–king golf game. I want that guy on my team. I want the guy who goes, ‘I’m going to fight with you.’”
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Kodak Black
On Drink Champs in October, Kodak Black sang Trump’s praises. “I f–k with that boy,” he said. “And that boy, like, he be vibin’ out here too.”
The rapper’s comment came over two years after Trump pardoned him on the politician’s last day in office. Black was less than halfway through with his prison sentence at that point, having pled guilty to a firearms possession charge after being detained at the Canadian-American border in March 2020.
“We need Trump in office forever, man,” he said on social media in 2023. “Just like how them Chinese and Russian and Korean motherf—ers have their president. Trump the best thing for America.”
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Lil Pump
In December 2023, Lil Pump posted a selfie he snapped with Trump and wrote, “Greatest president of all time 🇺🇸”
The following July, he loudly reaffirmed his support of the Republican candidate by sending a message straight to Vice President Harris via an impassioned Instagram video. “We’ve seen the mess that you and Biden have created in the past three years, and the only person who can clean it up is Donald Trump, baby!” he cheered.
(In the video, Pump also claimed that Harris “is not Black, she’s Indian.” This rhetoric is provably false; though the VP is Indian on her mother’s side, her father is a Black man born in Jamaica.)
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Sexyy Red
Sexyy Red endorsed Trump back in October 2023, telling comedian Theo Von on his This Past Weekend podcast, “We need him back in office.”
“I like Trump,” she said at the time. “Yeah, they support him in the hood. At first I don’t think people was f–king with him. They thought he was racist, saying little s–t against women. But once he started getting Black people out of jail and giving people that free money. Aww baby, we love Trump … Trump, we miss you.”
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Waka Flocka
Waka Flocka gave Trump a shout-out at one of his shows and told the crowd, “All Joe Biden voters, get out of my concert.” Later, following the assassination attempt against the former chief of state in July, the rapper tweeted, “I feel like Trump was set up.. protect our president 🙏🏽”