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Ed Sheeran Dropped From Tour Over Mo Salah Controversy
from Ed Sheeran, Sydney Sweeney, & Kash Patel’s Pet Fetish | The Tim Dillon Show #513 · #513
5 min
Tim recaps billionaire Robert Kraft pressuring arenas to drop Ed Sheeran after Mohamed Salah said "Free Palestine," leading to band and opener defections; riffs on Sheeran's mental health, One Direction comparisons, and imagines Sheeran giving an honest "I don't care about Gaza" statement, veering into Iran/women's rights irony.
- Tim says Ed Sheeran had a bad week after being dropped from tour over a Mo Salah "Free Palestine" comment.
- Robert Craft, owner of the Patriots, pressured the tour by threatening that stadium owners wouldn't let Sheeran perform if he didn't drop the opener.
- Tim volunteers to open the tour with standup comedy after all of Ed Sheeran's actual openers, including Billie Eilish's brother Finneas, pulled out.
- Tim expresses genuine concern about Ed Sheeran's mental health following the controversy, referencing the One Direction member who died by suicide.
- Tim argues Ed Sheeran should simply admit he doesn't care about Palestinian suffering rather than issuing a wordy statement.
- What's happening in Gaza is atrocious and constitutes genocide according to human rights organizations, with 93% of homes destroyed.
- Tim suggests Ed Sheeran preemptively claim indifference toward multiple Middle East crises—Lebanon, Turkey, Iran—to prevent future backlash.
- The irony of Western intervention: the stated rationale is liberating women and girls, yet girls actually attending school in Iran were killed in strikes.
- Tim clarifies he's not claiming Iran is a feminist utopia, only that it's strange the girls the U.S. killed were in an actual school.
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