Speaking during a recent interview on The Tucker Carlson Show with former Fox News Channel star and current podcast host Tucker Carlson, country music superstar Jason Aldean explained why he supports former President Donald Trump, noting that the former President is jus the sort of guy America needs to turn it around and head it in the right direction.
Aldean, as a reminder, is known for his conservative views and for not supporting the various forms of wokeness. He famously released “Try That in a Small Town,” which topped the charts after the music video went viral for showing real footage from the 2020 riots in which Black Lives Matter protesters were involved, and for the anti-crime song lyrics that some claimed were offensive and promoted vigilante justice.
In any case, Aldean, explaining why he is a huge Trump fan and how he got on the Trump train, told Tucker, “I love Trump, man. So, we ended up getting invited to New Year’s at Mar-a-Lago. Honestly, when he ran in 2016, I was not political at all. I didn’t really get into it. I didn’t really understand it a whole lot. Didn’t pay much attention to it. But I did think it was cool that here’s this guy that is really not a politician.”
Aldean went on to add that while many of his fellow stars thought Trump was just a joke and hadn’t a snowball in hell’s chances of making it, he ended up winning, much to their dismay and surprise. He said, “And at the time, you had all the A-list stars were going, ‘Oh, Trump’s running for president.’ They were all excited and almost kind of like it was a joke. And then he won.”
Building on that, Aldean noted that ever since Trump won quite unexpectedly, the media apparatus has been trying to slander him. He said, “I don’t think anyone thought he would win, and for the next eight years, it has been nothing but trying to slander this guy, get him out, and just all the stuff you watch him deal with in the media.”
Aldean also commented on his wife’s politics, telling Tucker, “My wife is very outspoken and she’s very firm in her beliefs. We were talking about it earlier, you’re trying to make things normal to me that aren’t normal. And, I think when she said that, it’s just like there’s a certain — I feel there are people that are going to take offense to everything these days, no matter what you say. [Brittany] said that and people jumped all over that, but I mean, I agree with her.”
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Aldean also spoke about the transgender children issue, saying it’s one thing for adults to make such a decision but entirely another for a kid to do so. He said, “If you want to be trans or do those kinds of things, if you’re an adult and can make those decisions and you’re old enough to have the mentality to know what you’re doing and know what that looks like for the rest of your life, that’s one thing.”
Continuing, he noted how little sense the relative age restrictions of minor things like beer drinking make given the massive life decision of trans medical procedures and such, saying, “If you’re, as a kid, your parents are already instilling that in you and, like, all this stuff and allowing you to do those things before you are of age … you can’t even vote until you’re 18. Why should you be able to do that? Or [you can’t] drink a beer until you’re 21, but you can change your … it’s just weird to me. I think if somebody wants to do that and they’re old enough to make that decision, hey, it doesn’t affect my life, whatever. But you can’t try to make that normal to everybody.”
Commenting on how the issue has impacted one of his children, Aldean said, “I got to send my kid to school and we’re talking about, like, the transgender stuff and like, ‘What do I do if he comes home and is, like, ‘Man, there’s a girl in my class that’s a boy.’ That’s hard to explain to a 5- or 6-year-old. I don’t want to have to explain those kinds of things to a 5-year-old who doesn’t get it … it’s those kinds of things that made me kind of step up [politically] a little bit more.”