Orlando Rep. Maxwell Frost at Paramore concert: ‘F— Ron DeSantis’
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U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, the Orlando Democrat and first Gen Z-er elected to Congress, made his feelings about Florida’s governor and 2024 presidential contender quite clear Friday night at a Paramore concert in Washington, D.C.
“F— Ron DeSantis! F— fascism!” Frost shouted to the cheering crowd as he took center stage at the punk-rock concert.
Videos of the ordeal spread across social media late Friday night and early Saturday morning.
Paramore’s lead singer Hayley Williams invited Frost on stage during the set.
“Do you see this? Do you see the future right here?” she exclaimed to the crowd.
Williams asked what he had to say and that’s when Frost yelled the expletives, videos showed. Frost, who could not immediately be reached for comment, expressed no regret on Saturday morning.
“I said what I said,” he tweeted.
While on stage, Frost also sang and danced with the band. “Very grateful for this moment. I’ve been practicing in the shower for YEARS,” he quipped in a tweet.
Williams has also emerged as a DeSantis critic, apparently in reference to DeSantis-backed bills targeting transgender youth and other LGBTQ issues, saying at a concert in Atlantic City last month that “if you vote for Ron DeSantis, you’re f—ing dead to me,” she told the crowd.
Frost and DeSantis have clashed in the past. In June 2022, Frost interrupted a DeSantis event in Orlando to confront him about gun violence.
“Ron DeSantis we are losing 100 people a day due to gun violence,” he yelled as DeSantis spoke. “Governor, we need you to take action on gun violence.”
DeSantis retorted: “Nobody wants to hear from you.”
Frost was then removed from the event.
In April, Frost called out DeSantis in a letter for not asking for federal funds that could be used to enforce Florida’s red flag law. Florida was one of five states that did not request funding.
“In the last decade, 9,229 Floridians were killed by someone using a firearm,” Frost wrote. “In 2022 alone, 1,130 Floridians were killed by someone using a firearm. This is not acceptable.”
Spokespeople for DeSantis did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
