Jason Aldean Talks To Tucker Carlson About Trump..

what do you think of trump I love Trump man I do you know and and how did you end up knowing Trump so we ended up getting invited to uh New Year's at Mar Lago one year and I think it was you know we had kind of started become vocal about it and honestly when he got when he ran in 2016 I mean I was not political at all I wasn't didn't really get into it didn't really understand it a whole lot didn't pay much attention to it and uh but I did think it was cool that here's this guy that is really not a politician and at the time you had you know 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 a little bit and uh and then he won and I don't think anybody thought he would win and for the next eight years it's been nothing but trying to just like slander this guy get him out you know and and just all the stuff you watch him deal with in the media and and to me it was just I don't know we just kind of started speaking out about that stuff and and how we felt about it and uh we got invited to Mara Lago for New Year's did you met him before I never met him never talked to him never met him uh went up there he invited me to play golf with him that morning and so I went and had breakfast with him played golf came back had lunch and then saw him at the thing and just kind of hit it off I mean you've been around him you know he's he's a you know he's a guy's guy man you talk to him about sports or like whatever the case is and he's just a he's a cool guy and so I just kind of hit it off with him and kept in touch with him over the you know last few years and um try to see him when I can you know down in Florida we live down there part of the time which is only you know I don't know probably 45 minutes from marago over there so um you know it kind of started like that it was like we had no intentions of of getting political or any of those things it just kind of happened and then um you know with all the elections so like I said the last eight years just watching what happened and going through 2020 the election stuff and the BL BLM stuff and the covid vaccine and the all those things just like man you're just watching all this stuff go down like what is going on right now it's crazy and so I think obviously having little kids made us get a little more involved and started paying attention to what was happening and it's like man I just you know my thing is I don't I don't vote for and this is true I don't vote for the person like as much as people may say that's a lie or whatever you know for me it's like which one of these groups is going to take the country in the direction that I feel like it should be taken for my family and my kids and like their future and those kind of things and to me that's what I base it on and I feel like personally for me that's him and so um you know it just it just kind of became a thing but it was never you know I mean 10 years ago man I couldn't have talk to you about any politics at all I'd be like I don't know you know it just was never really it didn't seem like it mattered well it just felt like you know the country was doing what it does I mean it it kind of go through its periods of whatever but it was never crazy it was still you know economy will go up and down and those kind of things but it wasn't just like a complete [ __ ] show you know what I'm saying and then all of a sudden when that happened I was like wow we got little kids and I'm like man I got to send my kid to school and you know it's like we're talking about like the transgender stuff and it's like what I do if he comes home it's like man there's a girl in my class that's a boy or but you know it's like that's hard to explain to a five or six year-old and people out there can say it doesn't happen that's a lie it's happening in elementary schools I know for a fact cuz it's happened around places where we live and in Tennessee yeah man and it's just like you know I don't know to me that's just one of those things where it's like I don't want to have to explain those kind of things to a 5-year-old who doesn't get it and and shouldn't have to deal with no and shouldn't have to I shouldn't have to explain that to him so that's kind of where I'm at on it and uh but it's those kind of things that may me kind of step up a little bit more than than I had in the past was there any downside to being you know seen with Trump saying nice things about Trump again you're always going to have people that you know there's somebody's going to [ __ ] about something I mean that's just the way it is and but I think until you know I finally just came to conclusion of like man you know I think I'm right I just think I'm on the right side of this and like you know I have a platform to be able to go out and and say stuff I mean there's other artists and actors and actresses and you know all these other celebrities that'll get on talk shows and all this stuff and they they'll run Trump down you know right there on live TV or Kathy Griffin holding up a trump head that looks like they cut his head off you know all that stuff's okay you know they don't nobody says [ __ ] about that but you know we start talking out about things and and all of a sudden they're appalled right so but you know to me I just feel like I'm on the right side of it and it's like man if you agree with me cool and if you don't that's cool too I mean it's not going to it's not going to affect the way I you know view things or or what I say or how I feel or I mean I don't know it's just it's a wild time were you surprised to see country stars at the Democratic Convention no I mean I don't think so I didn't watch it really so I don't really know who was there but um I'm not surprised I mean there's definitely that group that you know is more more lines that way and you know more power to them like if if you want to do that and you think that's a good look for you and that's what you support by all means go do it I mean it's like anything it's like with me doing it it's like you know get ready for the consequences whatever that is good or bad just know that you know there's there may be some and if you're good with that then go do what you want to do yeah well live out your conscience I agree with that completely