Rock musician Ben Folds paid tribute to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance On The Money: Anxious Democrats push for vote on COVID-19 aid | Pelosi, Mnuchin ready to restart talks | Weekly jobless claims increase | Senate treads close to shutdown deadline The Hill's Campaign Report: Trump faces backlash after not committing to peaceful transition of power MORE’s (R-Ky.) viral “Moscow Mitch” nickname during a Thursday performance in New York, using the nickname in a new song.

“For this song, what I want to do is put a little cool stutter in it, like, you know, ’My-my-my-my-my-my Sharona,’” Folds told the Pier 17 audience. “So what we’ll do is, we’ll go: Mah-mah-mah-Moscow Mitch.”

“I’m going to show him how good his song really is,” he added.

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Video shows Folds playing the mostly instrumental tune after the nickname "Moscow Mitch" spread online last week when the Kentucky Republican blocked two election security bills despite intelligence community warnings that Russian interference was likely in the 2020 elections.

McConnell’s move to block the bills quickly spurred widespread backlash. MSNBC host and former GOP congressman Joe Scarborough Charles (Joe) Joseph ScarboroughScarborough calls on Cuomo to walk back statement he made about Trump: 'Out of bounds' Mika Brzezinski: 'Super grossed out' by Trump speech attendees 'who put their lives at risk' Democrats tear into Trump's 'deep state' tweet: His 'lies and recklessness' have 'killed people' MORE later called McConnell’s actions “un-American,” labeling the majority leader “Moscow Mitch” and accusing him of "aiding and abetting Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich PutinPutin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Navalny released from hospital after suspected poisoning Ex-Trump national security adviser says US leaders 'making it easy for Putin' to meddle MORE’s ongoing attempts to subvert American democracy.”

Hashtags such as "MoscowMitch" and "MoscowMitchMcTreason" soon went viral. The Kentucky Democratic Party has even launched an online store selling “Moscow Mitch”-themed gear.

McConnell was visibly angered about the attacks toward him, calling them “modern-day McCarthyism” and blasting critics for using “unhinged smears” during a fiery speech on the Senate floor on Monday.

Last year, Folds released a song paying tribute to former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Rod RosensteinDOJ kept investigators from completing probe of Trump ties to Russia: report Five takeaways from final Senate Intel Russia report FBI officials hid copies of Russia probe documents fearing Trump interference: book MORE and his performance during a testy House Judiciary Committee hearing in June, when a group of conservatives grilled Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray over what they saw as inaction on several requests for sensitive documents related to the Russia investigation.