A social media persona has gone viral with an over-the-top efficiency of a rap track calling for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Alex Stein, of Dallas, Texas, could be seen rapping in entrance of a televised North Texas metropolis council assembly. The songs' lyrics embrace, "Put a bullet in Putin's mind," and "Vladimir Putin must die." This isn't the primary time he has carried out a musical quantity at such a gathering.

Stein, who briefly appeared as a contestant on ABC's 2012 actuality competitors The Glass Home, has gained fame by posting movies of himself making a spectacle at political conferences. However whereas he describes himself as a comic and satirist, one journalist has accused him of transphobia over his previous feedback.

Wearing a navy blue swimsuit with a yellow pocket sq. and tie—roughly resembling the colours of the Ukrainian flag—Stein performed a backing beat and commenced singing, "I am the proof after I'm within the sales space spitting on the mic. Anti-vax, Putin hates all of them Blacks. Putin is a nasty racist. Put him within the floor, white or brown, and I am in Plano city, and you recognize you simply acquired discovered. I am a pimp, I personal a blimp."

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A North Texas man named Alex Stein carried out a rap track in opposition to Vladimir Putin in entrance of town council of Plano, Texas. Pictured, a display screen shot from the occasion.Twitter screenshot

He continued, "Zelensky is a VIP. Ukraine and I am going insane. Put a bullet in Putin's mind. You already know that's the plan. I am a Zelinsky stan.... Fuel costs approach too excessive. Vladimir Putin must die. I really like you. Volodymyr Zelensky you are so sensible. What that is odor? Did any individual fart? Oh properly, what are you able to say? Would not make me straight or homosexual."

On the finish of the rap, Stein stated into the microphone, "I really like you. We have to take out Vladimir Putin like Lindsey Graham stated." He then thanked the mayor and talked about the identify of his Instagram account.

Stein's allusion to Graham referenced the Republican South Carolina senator's repeated suggestion that somebody assassinate Putin with a view to finish Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

In response to the video of his rap in entrance of the Plano Metropolis Council, Steven Monacelli, a contract reporter, stated on Twitter that Stein has a historical past of creating "transphobic posts" on social media.

Whereas Monacelli did not cite any particular statements by Stein, in a video posted to Stein's Twitter account on March 15, Stein instructed a gathering of officers in Marin County, California, "My 9-year-old is brazenly homosexual and identifies as a lizard, and each time that I take her to a public park, all we see are monkey bars. That's non-inclusive...[and] racist to a toddler that identifies as a lizard. However you guys do not take it severely. Why? Since you do not care."

He instructed the officers that if politicians discuss with Rachel Levine, a transgender girl who serves because the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Well being—as a "girl," they need to discuss with his daughter as a lizard.

In an October 2021 Dallas Metropolis Council assembly, Stein recognized himself as "Alexandria Stein," a post-op trans girl, whereas sporting a purple cape and bonnet much like the oppressed girls in Hulu's dystopian drama collection The Handmaid's Story.

"In all seriousness I really like Homosexual and Trans individuals," Stein instructed Newsweek. "I simply really feel like kids taking puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgical procedure earlier than the age of 17 is insane."

"I've homosexual relations that I really like very a lot, I really like the homosexual group and the trans group," he added. "I am a comic and a satirist so I make enjoyable of the whole lot underneath the solar."

Stein additionally carried out a rap at a Dallas Metropolis Council assembly in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Carrying medical scrubs and waving face masks, he sang, "You gonna get corona from Mona. Do not. Vaccinate. Do not wait. Do not hesitate. You gotta vaccinate within the Lone Star State."

"I need to vaccinate your mother. I need to stick it deep in your arm," he continued. "Oh Ma, the place are you? I need to vaccinate you, however you may't hear my track. Vaccinate me and in my thong. Vaccination, proper or incorrect. Dr. Fauci give me that ouchie."

Stein is a graduate of Highland Park Excessive Faculty within the prosperous Dallas neighborhood of Highland Park. In September, a faux press launch introduced his dying on account of COVID-19.

"Alex Stein was an anti-vaccine and anti-COVID chief who believed that the vaccine contained a nano-particle that triggered Myocarditis in younger individuals," the press launch acknowledged. "And sadly, we remorse that his views on the dread virus price him his life. Alex additionally felt the fear assaults on 9/11 had been orchestrated by individuals inside the US authorities."

The press launched included a photograph of Stein holding a cake that stated, "COVID is a hoax" in icing.

Newsweek contacted town supervisor of Plano, Texas, for remark.