Whenever you get an opportunity to fulfill a president, you’re taking it.
Jelly Roll lately had the chance to fulfill President-Elect Donald Trump lately, when the “Son Of A Sinner” singer was seen on video greeting Trump, Elon Musk and Child Rock at UFC 309.
🚨BREAKING: LEGENDARY SINGER JELLY ROLL JUST GREETED PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH A MASSIVE SMILE AT UFC 309!
He additionally greeted Elon Musk, Child Rock, and Don Jr.
That is HUGE!🔥 pic.twitter.com/6TEIBEc8ZG
— Bo Loudon (@BoLoudon) November 17, 2024
And truthfully, with some other president, chances are high this may have simply been seen as someone greeting a former/future president, like most traditional individuals would do if that they had the possibility. However as a result of it was Trump, naturally it set off a firestorm from individuals who had been upset that Jelly Roll would even communicate to him.
After all merely saying howdy to Trump doesn’t imply that someone is a Trump supporter, or that they voted for him within the election. However you know the way the web is right this moment. Responsible by affiliation. Can’t normalize Trump, or no matter it’s they’re saying.
Jelly Roll was rapidly accused of being a Trump supporter and having voting for the Republican candidate, accusations which he shot down by reminding folks that as a convicted felon, he doesn’t even have the fitting to vote in his house state of Tennessee.
And through a current look alongside his spouse, Bunnie Xo, on her Dumb Blonde podcast, Jelly set the report straight on why he determined to fulfill President Trump:
“There’s not an opportunity in hell I’m not going to fulfill the president-elect. If I’d have gotten a name to fulfill Joe Biden at any level, I’d have stopped what I used to be doing to go meet him. That’s the energetic president. I wouldn’t have cared what individuals thought, even what I take into consideration his insurance policies.
I don’t conceal behind the ‘I’m not political’ stuff. I’m not political…
I’m additionally one of many old-school dudes.. I like to speak about issues I’m keen about. With that, I prefer to find out about them. I don’t know sufficient about politics to behave like I do know something that’s happening, what anyone’s standing for policy-wise. I genuinely don’t know.”
Jelly says that he wasn’t raised in a house the place his mother and father put a giant emphasis on voting:
“They did push, ‘Respect our president’ on me although. My father was actual huge on, ‘You don’t disrespect…that’s the toughest job on the planet, respect whoever has it.’”
And he describes the second that Trump walked into the sector and he knew that he needed to fulfill him:
“I’ve had some bone-chilling moments…I don’t care who you might be, for those who had been in that constructing, the hair in your pores and skin stood up…And also you appeared and all you’re watching is the President-Elect who simply bought elected 8 days in the past strolling in together with his whole cupboard with him nearly…
It was highly effective, dude. I don’t care which facet of the aisle you’re on…
When Trump walks proper by me I’m like, ‘He don’t know who I’m.’ So proper then I used to be like, ‘Properly, rattling, I’m not gonna get to fulfill the president.’”
Fortunately, a member of UFC CEO Dana White’s staff ensured that Jelly would get the chance to fulfill Trump:
“What you don’t see within the video was he offers me the Trump level…He goes, deliver it in. And I begin strolling over, I’m like, my coronary heart is…
I am going to shake his hand, I put my hand on his shoulder, which proper then I used to be like, I hope Secret Service don’t choke me out or one thing, I do know you’re not supposed to the touch him. And he places his hand on my shoulder…and he’s like, ‘I like Save Me.’
He’s like, ‘You’re doing unimaginable issues.’”
And finally, he says he has no regrets about assembly Trump, calling the entire thing a cool expertise:
“However yeah, so assembly President Trump was cool. Finally I don’t actually care, any blowback I get about it. The reality is, it was actually cool to fulfill the president.”
My favourite quote from the complete episode, although, got here from Bunnie:
“I feel the federal government’s a sham.”
Amen.
