Country star Jelly Roll stepped in as a guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and used his opening monologue to take aim at Donald Trump. His jokes touched on the president’s weight, a remark about Trump’s own race comment, and the presidential motorcade lap of honor, landing as the kind of late-night comedy that is built to get a reaction. And a reaction is exactly what it got.<\/p>\n
The appearance quickly drew backlash online from Trump supporters, who took offense at the jokes aimed at the president. For many of them, the monologue crossed a line, and the criticism spread fast across social media as clips and comments circulated.<\/p>\n
Rather than apologise, Jelly Roll doubled down. He said a president should be able to take jokes, and told offended fans plainly that if they did not like his views, they could stop listening. It was a direct message to the very audience criticising him: he was not backing away from what he had said.<\/p>\n
He closed the segment on a very different note, with an emotional tribute to Dolly Parton. Remembering her music playing in his family home, he called her the last American that everyone liked \u2014 a warm ending to a night that had started with sharp comedy and ended with a reminder of the music that shaped him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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