Watch Jelly Roll Addressed His Political Views Hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live

On his final night of guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, Jelly Roll finally addressed his political views. At the Grammy Awards in February, Jelly Roll was asked about his politics, but he declined to answer. “I have a lot to say about it and I’m going to in the next week,” he said at the time. “And everybody’s going to hear exactly what I have to say in the most loud and clear way I’ve ever spoken in my life. I look forward to it.” The musician didn’t follow through — until now. Jelly Roll cracked jokes at the expense of Donald Trump and his administration throughout this week, leading some to speculate about his political affiliation.

“A lot of people seem to think these Jimmy Kimmel writers have secretly been pulling the strings and forcing this good old country boy to poke fun at our commander-in-chief,” he said last night during his final monologue. “But let’s be real about this y’all: Do you think I would take orders from some sweaty little dork named Josh? No, I was just telling it like it is. And for some reason that seemed to freak a lot of people out. I guess now that I’ve lost all this weight folks can finally see I have balls.”

“A lot of people seem to think these Jimmy Kimmel writers have secretly been pulling the strings and forcing this good old country boy to poke fun at our commander-in-chief,” he said last night during his final monologue. “But let’s be real about this y’all: Do you think I would take orders from some sweaty little dork named Josh? No, I was just telling it like it is. And for some reason that seemed to freak a lot of people out. I guess now that I’ve lost all this weight folks can finally see I have balls.” He added that “a handshake is not an endorsement” and “a conversation is not an allegiance.” “And a joke is not a political point of view,” he confirmed.

Jelly Roll finished his monologue with a personal story about his father, a “blue back Democrat,” and his uncle, a “red hat Republican.” “This might be hard for people to understand out there, but they were absolutely best friends,” he recounted, explaining that his father told him there were hundreds of things they did agree on and only a few they didn’t.” “Politicians and algorithms make an absolute fortune convincing us that the person across the street from us is the reason our life is hard,” Jelly Roll concluded. “I just want us to remember that the person across the street is a human being before they’re a voter.”

Source: Rolling Stone