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Circle Jerks’ Keith Morris Confronts MAGA-Supporting Fan During Concert

Keith Morris of Circle Jerks challenged a concertgoer who called him a "traitor," asking, "Do you f***ing understand our f***ing lyrics?"

Rolling Stone·May 27, 2026·via Rolling Stone

Circle Jerks’ Keith Morris Confronts MAGA-Supporting Fan During Concert

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Circle Jerks’ Keith Morris Blasts MAGA Supporter: ‘Stay the F–k Home’

When a concertgoer called the singer a "traitor," Morris was not having it: "Do you fucking understand our fucking lyrics?" he asked

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May 27, 2026

When an audience member at the Circle Jerks ‘ Las Vegas concert on Sunday called Keith Morris a traitor sometime after the pioneering hardcore-punk group performed their Golden Shower of Hits song “Under the Gun,” Morris gave him a mouthful. “I’m a traitor?” Morris said. “Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Fuck you. I vote in every election. I always vote for the least stinkiest piece of shit.”

Video of the exchange, which took place at Las Vegas’ Brooklyn Bowl venue, captured someone comparing the gig to one by the more politically explicit, lefty group the Dead Kennedys, which prompted Morris to respond with a series of rhetorical questions.

“So you’re not here for my political bullshit, you’re here for the music?” he said, sarcastically. “Do you fucking understand our fucking lyrics? Do you understand what we’re singing about? Do you fucking understand that I think fucking Donald Trump is the biggest piece of shit to ever walk the face of the Earth? Are you fucking Nazis? Are you fucking fascists?”

Morris summed things up with a suggestion for the fan. “The next time we come to town, stay the fuck home,” he said. “It’s really simple.” Then they kicked into “Coup d’Etat,” their contribution to the Repo Man soundtrack, which finds Morris describing the violent overthrow of a government. “A push from the left and a shove from the right/It’s all planned out, we’ll do it tonight,” Morris sings on that song. “First the president then his wife/We’ll take them for ransom/Or take their lives.”

The Circle Jerks became Morris’ on-again, off-again main band after he split with Black Flag. Their first two albums, Group Sex (1980) and Wild in the Streets (1982), have become genre benchmarks. The latter album’s “Political Stu” and “Moral Majority” both blasted Reagan-era Republicans.