John Rich has called out his fellow country artists who support President Donald Trump but have remained publicly silent on the matter, while citing Garth Brooks and Brad Paisley as examples of musicians who spoke out for "the other side.

Within hours of his inauguration on Monday, Trump postponed a deadline requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell its stake in the app or face a ban in the country. Trump argued that the US “should be entitled to get half of TikTok ” if the app continued operating beyond that cut-off and that he could “certainly” impose tariffs on China if it rejected a deal,