Washington -President Donald Trump invited Kid Rock to the Oval Office on Monday and signed an executive order that he’ll help scale the ticket and convey “Commonsense” changes in the best way how live events are assessed.
“Anyone who bought a concert ticket -no matter how their politics is -in the past decade, knows that it is a mystery,” said Kid Rock, who was wearing a red -striped suit with an American flag motif and a straw fedora.
The order is headed by the overall authority attorney Pam Bondi and finance minister Scott bets To be certain that Scalper offers the tickets at higher prices than the nominal value corresponds to all rules for the Internal Revenue Service.
In addition, the Federal Trade Commission is instructed to “ensure the price transparency in all phases of the ticket purchase process” and “to take enforcement measures in order to prevent unfair, deceptive and competitive behavior on the secondary ticking market”, which is what the Trump management of the Trump management of the sensitivity and the order of the ticket market can restore.
Trump said he knew Kid Rock, an extended -time supporter whose real name Robert James Ritchie is, as “bob”.
“He had been a good friend for a long time,” said Trump.
The President said increasing fees for live shows and other events “have become worse and worse over time”. Kid Rock agreed.
“You can buy a ticket for $ 100. If you check it out, it is 170 US dollars. You don't know what you were charged for,” said Kid Rock. “But what is even more important, the bots, you know, they come in, you will get all good tickets for your favorite shows you want to go to, and then you will be resumed immediately for 400-500% Markup.”
The order mainly indicates federal authorities to implement existing laws. Nevertheless, it marks a rare example of political crossings with the administration of the democratic president Joe bidenwho used the FTC to aim ” Junk feesOr taxes at the end of the purchase process, which can mask the full price of things such as concert tickets, hotel rooms and electricity bills.
The Ministry of Justice also bids under bidges too laminated Ticketmaster and his parent company Live Nation Entertainment last year. It accused them of performing an illegal monopoly via live events and asked a dish to break the system that undermined the competition and increase the prices for fans.
These companies have a history of the collision with large artists, including Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift. Their summer 2022 stage tour was affected by Difficulties to get tickets.
Country music star Zach Bryan even published A 2022 album With the title “All my homies hate ticketmaster.” A representative of Bryan said that he “had nothing so as to add” when he asked to make an executive Orer on Monday.
Biden management used such initiatives to protect consumers from rising prices that have already been inflated. In the meantime, Trump campaigned against combating high ticket prices and called it “very unhappy”.
Kid Rock, known for hits such as “Cowboy” and “Bawitdaba”, called Trump's command a “Big first step” and said that he would like to see an upper limit for re -sale prices for tickets – and quickly added: “I'm a capitalist.” He also said he had spoken to a ticket master, which he described with the change as “on board”.
According to the White House, America's live concert and entertainment industry has a nationwide economic impact of $ 132.6 billion and supports $ 913,000.
Trump's command also shows the federal officials and the FTC to make a report in six months. “Summary of measures to combat the query of unfair practices within the live concert and entertainment industry and extra regulations or laws which are essential to guard consumers on this industry.”
“Tickets and other unfair means use large quantities of facial value tickets after which sell them to an infinite serve on the secondary market, praise consumers and rob the fans of the chance to see their favorite artists without excessive expenses,” said the face of the White House.
It was also found that higher prices do not mean additional profits for artists, but “exclusively on the scaler and ticketing agency”.
Kid Rock agreed that such Markup's artists like him did not benefit him, and then giggled while he offered: “I can be the primary to say and I do know that the president doesn't like once I say that, but I'm just overpaid.”
“It is someway ridiculous. I might relatively be a hero of the working class and allow them to give you the option to participate in my shows and provides them a good ticket price,” he said. “I can't check that in the meanwhile, so hopefully it is a step to attain this.”
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