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Jelly Roll's Trump joke cracks country music's political truce

The Daily Beast, Aug 27 · read the original

The singer's line calling the president a "fat pig" on Jimmy Kimmel Live drew a Florida congressman's public rejection and fan boycott threats, a rare case of a mainstream country star taking a direct partisan shot and refusing to walk it back.

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