Country singer Jelly Roll stunned viewers in Los Angeles on Monday, 24 August, when, as guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he tore into President Donald Trump during his opening monologue, joking that the president had done a 's**t job' waving a flag at a recent IndyCar race in Washington, DC.
The backlash hit because Roll, real name Jason Bradley DeFord, has spent the past year being painted online as quietly aligned with Trump and the MAGA movement. In January 2024, he was filmed warmly shaking hands and smiling with Trump at a UFC event in New York City, a brief clip that, fairly or not, cemented him in some fans' minds as 'one of them.'