WATCH: John Mellencamp Booed Off Stage For Praising Joe Biden

The Heartland wasn’t into hearing about who John Mellencamp will be voting for in November.

The outspoken Biden rockstar called it quits in Toledo, Ohio last month after audience members got fed up with his political seminar and demanded more of the songs they came to see. A clip circulating on X shows the moment Mellencamp began trading words with a heckler who yelled at him to “play some music” and stop with the lecturing.

“What do you think I’ve been doing, you c**********?” the singer shoots back. “You don’t f****** know me.”

Despite being backed up with polite applause, the “Pink Houses” rocker became too triggered to continue much longer. He told another heckler to “go back to kindergarten” after the man yelled out, “Play ‘The Authority Song’,” a hit from the 1983 album “Uh-huh,” according to the Toledo Blade.

“Guys, I can stop this show right now and just go home,” Mellencamp responds. “Tell you what I’m going to do. Since you’ve been so wonderful, I’m going to cut about 10 songs out of the show. Here we go.”

He then broke into an acoustic rendition of his hit “Jack & Diane” before leaving the stage.

“Know what? Show’s over,” he said as he walked off.

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Known for interspersing politics with his songs, Mellencamp, 72, has played for over five decades and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008. His style has blended with peers like Bruce Springsteen, and the show opened with shots of working-class families and blue-collar Americans from various movies over the years.

The heckling marred a performance of “Longest Days,” and after Mellencamp left the stage many in the audience began to leave. About five minutes later, the lights dimmed again and the singer walked back out after the hecklers had been removed, continuing on with “Rain On the Scarecrow,” “Lonely Ol’ Night,” and “Pink Houses.”

Run-ins with patriotic audience members aren’t new to the “Hurts So Bad” rocker.

In May of 2023, Mellencamp lost it during a show in Cleveland after an audience member yelled out, “Play the f****** music!” after he criticized the United States, according to Cleveland.com.

“Listen, hey, you guys, if these people don’t shut the (expletive) up I’m just going to leave, OK? Because I’m not used to this crap,” Mellencamp said. “Look, guys, if I wanted to play in this type of drunken environment, I’d play outside or I’d play in an arena.”

The lifelong progressive singer has surrounded himself with Democratic former presidents like Barack Obama and targeted former President Donald Trump since his first day in the White House.

One day before President Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, Mellencamp released a new music video titled “Easy Target” in which he sings his views on the downtrodden state of a racist America, according to People Magazine.

“So Black Lives Matter, who we tryin’ to kid / Here’s an easy target / Don’t matter, never did / Crosses burnin’, such a long time ago / 400 years, and we still don’t let it go / Well, let the poor be damned and the easy targets, too / All are created equally, beneath you and me.”

“Slowly but surely this country changes by the men we admire and I’m very aware of that,” he told Katie Couric. “The country is changing by what has happened and, you know, welcome to Suckertown.”

When asked for his thoughts on Trump taking office, Mellencamp said: “You don’t really know what he’s really going to do or what because he says one thing and does another. You know, ‘We’re not going to have Wall Street involved,’ and his whole cabinet is Wall Street. I’m just going to sit back and see how weird it gets.”