Actor and comedian Rob Schneider had some strong words for country music star Garth Brooks this week, advising him to “just shut up” after Brooks got caught up in a controversy for announcing plans to offer Bud Light at his Nashville bar when it opens later this summer.
During country music star Garth Brooks’ recent interview on Billboard’s Country Live in Conversation, he seemed to indirectly criticize other country music artists who own bars but have chosen not to sell Bud Light over the brand’s controversial paid marketing collaboration with a transgender influencer earlier this year.
“Yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer,” the singer said. “We just are. It’s not our decision to make. If you come into this house, love one another. If you’re an a**hole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”
“In my existence, one a**hole can turn the whole tide down there,” he added. “My thing is, let’s create a place that you feel safe in.”
Later, Brooks doubled down on his remarks, saying that he was all about diversity and inclusion.
“I get it, everyone’s got their opinions,” Brooks said. “But inclusiveness is always going to be me. I think diversity is the answer to the problems that are here. And the answer to the problems that are coming.”
Schneider told Fox Nation’s “Woke Up in America” he believes the country star needs just to be quiet and stay out of the drama moving forward.
“I think next time, he’s going to stay out of it, isn’t he? I think Garth Brooks, next time, is going to shut his mouth, and he’s going to pretend like ‘I don’t have anything to do with what beer is chosen in my restaurant,’” Schneider said. “I think the culture is in a very weird little place of hypersensitivity one way or the other. And I think that’s why most people shut their mouths.”
Schneider suggested that it is prudent for famous people like Brooks to hold off getting heavily involved in business operations to avoid facing backlash in situations that may escalate.
“I mean, just from a business standpoint, just shut up, say I have nothing to do with it,” he said.
