Country singer Kacey Musgraves flexed her liberal bona fides at her Dallas show on Sunday by calling Italian explorer Christopher Columbus a “loser.”
Musgraves, who palled around with Democrat Texas Senate candidate James Talarico the night before her rant, railed against Columbus after fans objected to her calling Monday’s holiday Columbus Day rather than “Indigenous Peoples Day.”
“Tomorrow’s Monday? That sucks. Boo,” she said. “Oh yeah, it’s a holiday, right? Ew, that’s right, wait, it’s Columbus Day?”
After the crowd’s objections, the “Golden Hour” singer quickly trashed the trailblazing explorer. “Yeah, obviously f*ck Columbus,” she said. “Literally the lamest person to probably ever exist. Like, for real. What a loser.”
“You’re a loser Christopher Columbus,” she added. “We hate you.”
The rant went viral online and garnered some critical responses. Former Los Angeles GOP mayoral candidate and “Hills” star Spencer Pratt.
“An entire generation of spoiled brats who’ve never built anything, stand on the crumbling empire they don’t deserve, built by great and courageous men who are now judged through the moral lens of the softest dorks living in the easiest times,” he wrote on X. “Oy vey.”
An entire generation of spoiled brats who’ve never built anything, stand on the crumbling empire they don’t deserve, built by great and courageous men who are now judged through the moral lens of the softest dorks living in the easiest times. Oy vey. https://t.co/CfH7pPZHII
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) October 13, 2026
The day before her anti-Columbus rant, Musgraves took photos with Talarico, whom she hosted at her show. The PR stunt notably followed a mysterious 12-day hiatus from Talarico during the final stretch of the campaign. His campaign said he had been recovering from the flu.
Don’t mess with Texas. https://t.co/Yhw3ob7eUb
— James Talarico (@jamestalarico) October 13, 2026
Musgraves’ anti-Columbus comments and photo-op with Talarico come as no surprise. The singer is hyper liberal and often talks politics. In 2020, she claimed that voting for President Donald Trump while loving an LGBTQ+ person amounted to “an act of violence” against that person.
“If you love an LGBTQ+ person and you’re planning on voting for Donald Trump in November, that’s an act of violence against them,” she wrote on social media.
Musgraves has also advocated for gun control and criticized other Republican leaders.
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