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Weeks after backlash, country star Jelly Roll had a response for cancel culture cretins miffed at his moment with President-elect Donald Trump.

“I don’t care.”

While showing favor for the GOP leader became less of a taboo in certain circles, like athletes celebrating victories with his signature dance moves, the award-winning artist born Jason DeFord had a different explanation after smiling and posing with Trump and his posse.

Only days after his Election Night victory, and a few weeks after a massive campaign rally at the venue, the president-elect had arrived at New York City’s Madison Square Garden for UFC 309 with an array of allies where he greeted VIPs ringside.

Among them was DeFord who told his wife, Bunnie Xo, on her “Dumb Blonde” podcast, “Dude, there’s not a chance in hell that I’m not going to meet the president-elect. I don’t care.”

Clarifying that it wasn’t a matter of his political perspective as much as it was having been brought up to respect the office, he noted, “If I got a call to meet [President] Joe Biden, I would have stopped at any point and [met] him. That’s the active president. I don’t care about what he thinks or I think about policies.”

The entertainer elaborated on the energy Trump brought with him to the historic arena as he said, “I don’t care who you were, if you were in that building, the hair on your skin stood up.”

“And you looked, and all you’re watching is the president-elect, who got elected like eight days ago, walking in with his entire cabinet with him — almost. You know what I mean? And his kids and his grandchildren. And it was powerful, dude. Like, I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on,” he added.

Images from the event showed DeFord alongside the likes of House Speaker Mike Johnson, Donald Trump Jr., Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Kid Rock.

Broadly addressing politics, DeFord had said, “I don’t hide behind the ‘I’m not political’ stuff. I’m not political! People who actually know me know I’m also one of the old-school dudes.”

“I like to talk about things I’m passionate about. With that, I like to know about it. I don’t know enough about politics to act like I know anything that’s going on or what anybody’s standing for policy-wise,” he explained.

To that end, the artist had testified in January before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs amid an effort to pass the Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, where he had said, “I was part of the problem. I am here now, standing as a man that wants to be a part of the solution,” as someone who dealt drugs.

He’d also lamented in an interview with People how his daughter would “never experience the safety of experimenting with drugs” because of the increased dangers of the opioid epidemic.

“I know that sounds crazy to say, but when I was a kid, my mother would be like, ‘You’re going to try everything once. Just be safe.’ It’s not safe for any kid to be doing anything,” contended DeFord.

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