Morgan Wallen’s cryptic post trolls Nashville leaders as bar sign feud rages on following THAT chair-throwing incident

Morgan Wallen responded subtly to the Nashville Metro Council’s decision to reject his proposal for a 20-foot-tall sign advertising his new bar in downtown Nashville.

Following the council’s 30-3 vote to deny the sign’s installation Tuesday due to his past controversies, including allegedly throwing a chair off a roof in Nashville last month, the 31-year-old singer seemingly responded to politicians who said he gave other Tennesseans “a bad name.” name” and “doesn’t belong in this town” on his Instagram Story.

While Metro Council overwhelmingly rejected his sign, the country music phenomenon uploaded an aerial photo of the crowd at one of his three sold-out shows at Nissan Stadium in Music City from earlier this month.

Although he didn’t write anything on the photo, his choice to tag the location, Nashville, Tennessee, did not go unnoticed.

Some of the star’s fans have taken his post as a way to get Wallen to acknowledge that regardless of the board’s assessment of his past, his actions have had no impact on his ticket sales, popularity or the public’s support for his professional efforts.

During the vote, District 14 Council Member Jordan Huffman called the Heartless hitmaker’s actions “harmful” and the previous use of the N-word “hateful.”

Councilwoman Delishia Porterfield agreed as she gave an impassioned speech about wanting to “ensure Nashville is a supportive place for everyone.”

“I don’t want to see a billboard with the name of someone throwing chairs off balconies and making racist comments,” Porterfield explained of her decision to vote no.

Some found Porterfield’s words ironic when an X user wrote that it was “funny to hear inclusion language used to exclude someone for BS [bulls**t]while accusing the councilwoman of shutting out Wallen and his fans.

“If I were Morgan, I’d keep all my future Tennessee tours out of Nashville. Let them suffocate. If they don’t want him, they don’t deserve to benefit from the money he brings to their city,” one social media user suggested.

Another wrote, “He should put his bar just outside the Nashville city limits. I bet it’s full.’

Others noted that Wallen’s bar, This Bar and Tennessee Restaurant, was still open this weekend, and like a number of celebrity bars in downtown Nashville, a sign with his name will “eventually” go up.

Still, some haters wondered “how many chances” does Wallen get before something “doesn’t go his way.”

Wallen’s This Bar & Tennessee Kitchen opens this weekend in downtown Nashville.

On Tuesday, a motion on whether he could place his six-metre-high neon sign on his restaurant’s sign was rejected by 30 councillors. According to The Tennessean, only three voted in favor of the sign. Four council members abstained from voting.

Jacob Kupin of District 19 was among the council members who expressed reservations about the sign.

“It struck me that we’re putting up a sign with the name of someone who hasn’t been a good actor downtown,” he said. “I decided to seek approval for this because I support the efforts to move this bar forward. The restaurant group that manages this facility, TC Restaurant Group, has been a really good partner in everything that’s happening downtown.”

TC Restaurant Group, the company opening the eatery, also operates other restaurants named after iconic country singers, including Jason Aldean’s Kitchen & Rooftop Bar and Casa Rosa Miranda Lambert’s.

Last month, Wallen was arrested after allegedly throwing a chair from a rooftop bar in downtown Nashville.

Wallen was charged with three counts of reckless endangerment and one count of disorderly conduct, with officers claiming the chair landed three feet away from them.

Wallen previously faced significant backlash in 2021 when TMZ released a video of the singer saying the N-word to one of his friends after a night out.

After footage of Wallen making racist comments went viral, many radio stations stopped playing his music and the Country Music Association removed Wallen’s performances from their platforms.

His songs were removed from Apple Music, Pandora and Spotify playlists because of the sandal.

Wallen’s record label, Big Loud, suspended his recording contract with him indefinitely.

The Academy of Country Music announced that Wallen and his then-most recent album, Dangerous: The Double Album, would be ineligible for the 56th annual Academy of Country Music Awards.

In the week following the racism, Dangerous album sales soared and digital sales increased by more than 100 percent.

It even stayed at the top of the Billboard charts for another seven weeks.

In April 2021, Wallen donated $300,000 to the Black Music Action Coalition in the names of twenty people who gave him advice after he made racist comments.

Wallen spoke publicly about his comments on Good Morning America on July 23, where he said that “he was around some of his friends, and they say stupid things together” and said that “he was wrong” for saying those words to push.