Trump Facing Major Blowback For Saying This About Dolly Parton

all right when I read the headline yesterday that an 80 year old had died I was devastated to find out that that was Dolly Parton who was just an amazing amazing talented woman fundamentally this is a woman who bought books for people didn't ban books this is a woman who stood up for the marginalized and didn't bully them this is a woman who stood with the LGBTQ community the black community and didn't bully them despite her doing all of this in the classiest way imaginable Donald Trump is so narcissistic he's making her death about himself of course let's play the clip unique I mean she was amazing and to lose her it's like you lose a member of the family you know we we all knew her so well I knew her a little bit she wasn't a very political person she really liked me I will tell you but she also wanted to stay very you know she she was of the opinion you know the 50 who needs to lose I don't think it's 50 I think it's probably 20 of the fans okay not 50 but she was a great person I'm always stunned when I hear him even though I shouldn't be by now when everything goes back to well that he really liked me I I liked him because he he really liked me I'm just like what who thinks oh I know who the president of the United States he thinks every in terms of himself everything is in terms of himself it's really every time I hear it I'm just like wow no it is it it always takes my breath away too I'm just like and it's not so much that he says it because it's predictable that he says it it's how many people hear that and don't have the same reaction that we just had that's where my brain goes like that they're like yeah she really liked him she really that they like what a blowhard what an arrogant POS that they don't process that with the judgment that such a narcissistic statement should Garner but the fact of the matter is that Dolly Pardon didn't want anything to do with MAGA or Trump pop this up Dolly Parton turned down an offer to receive the presidential Medal of Freedom twice during the Donald Trump administration you know here's the thing with Dolly unlike Ted Cruz she is the exact opposite both the right and the left like there's nobody that disagrees that Dolly Parton was an icon she stood for everything that's good the American dream really grew up completely impoverished made her own ticket like didn't sell her songs she would let people sing it but she always made the money great business woman so she typifies everything that the American dream symbolizes and I just think that if that is truly in your heart and clearly that was her conviction by everything that she did you cannot stand in Donald Trump's Oval Office you cannot receive an award from him because it's tainted it's tainted with cruelty and racism and vast incompetence I have heard Dolly Parton multiple interviews as a lifelong fan of hers I feel like you know we all grew up with her yeah um that she she did live the American dream but differently a better version of it because what she would say is yeah I've made a lot of money but I don't do this for the money I do it for the art and she did make a lot of money but differently than all of these other hundreds of millionaires and billionaires she gave back right books for kids she funded a vaccine she made money so much money doing something she loves and that's the part of America that we need to bring back this form of the Jeff Bezos America or uh immigrant Elon Musk's America America where they say well philanthropy doesn't really do anything well that's just a complete lie you're just a completely greedy selfish person I saw Jeff Bezos had the audacity to do a post about Dolly and I'm just like go ahead go ahead make that split screen Bezos and this is a woman who would never she was rich but she's never gonna have the kind of money you had and she's given more way and cared more and she stood on business and she refused to go to the Oval to get the uh medal that she clearly earned but she refused to go get it from that fascist uh president you on the other hand race there with participation Awards and made up gifts for him that you had to give to him so that's just incredibly rich how many people that stand for everything that Dolly tried to stamp out through a message of love and philanthropy and inclusivity these people are trying to draw a parallel or latch on to her and of course Dolly was a fierce Defender of the lgbtq plus community play the clip recently those throw support to uh the community oh I'm always uh in courage I'm not encouraged they've made me the poster child I think only because I'm so outspoken as far as just being accepting of people in general I do not believe that we should criticize and judge other people I think we should be accepting and loving we are all God's children we are who we are and we should allow allowed to be who we are did any of the faith-based communities that deeply believe the other way oh absolutely they did oh yes I get it all the time I keep saying well if you're the fine Christian that you're you think you are why are you judging people lover and this is she was doing this a long long time ago she was a trailblazer and standing up for the lgbtq plus community the same community that Donald Trump doesn't give a about the same community this terrified of drag Queens the same community that uh uh doesn't even really like art and so for them to clamor on to Dolly Pardon who was an artist and the reason that we just didn't talk about the reason Republicans don't like art and you always if you ever meet people that don't appreciate art they're Republicans because art at the epicenter of it is critical thinking at the epicenter of it is inclusivity at the epicenter of it is all of this exploration art opens up your mind to so many different things and that is a problem for the maga fascist project much the same way that Jesus Christ is a problem for the maga fascist project radical empathy like she was talking about right there but also in such a sassy southern way well if you're just such a good Christian then why are you judging and why are you being such a hypocrite my mother said that my entire life growing up always pointing out the absolute abject hypocrisy in the most real overtly loud megaphone holding religious people were the most judge mental right Watts among us absolutely right and you know what's interesting about Dolly Parton is she took the criticism and she continued to do it like you said for years and years it did not change her it did not change her Outlook and I think when you think here's just my bird's eye view having been indoctrinated and raised in the evangelical Christian movement Dolly Parton was the only thing that I was taught you're supposed to be like Jesus you're supposed to be empathetic you're supposed to be inclusive feed the hungry all the things but the minute we walked away from that the meanest cruelest uh judgmental righteous indignation dehumanizing because it was more about money and superiority and entitled I'm entitled to it Dolly Parton despite the fact that she talked about every morning she got up the first thing she did was read her Bible she practiced the radical empathy that you're talking about and I think that's why you know the Pope's a problem for the right same with Dolly Parton because she was like I love everybody I'm I'm including everybody I'm not judging anybody and that from somebody who was like judgment is how you're raised you're you are entitled to judge other people making it easier to dehumanize them making it easier for you as a Republican yeah all right and here's Dolly speaking out against racism play the clip of course black lives matter do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter I mean this is just this is to me that's the America I want to live in I agree I want diversity I want to be around people that have differing world views but the connective tissue in that is to advocate for each other we all might have different life experiences but to live in America and to have the privilege that we have and have the privilege that Dolly Parton had and to ignore the uh centuries long subjugation and scapegoating of black Americans is fundamentally at the epicenter of how Republicans continue to win and I love her ever saying of course black lives matter and you notice how simply she's able to state her convictions the Democratic establishment should take watched some of her clips very plain spoken and she you know it's real because she believes she's never had to change her opinion she's never had to do an about face she's lived it she's believed in it her entire life and of course she wasn't a politician but we look to in a society all sorts of people for inspiration and i just challenge those at the dnc to listen to how simply she speaks about that well of course they matter we think our white ass is the only thing that matters it's very simple it's very effective and it's full of compassion and common sense and then of course maga spreads vaccine conspiracy theories everywhere they can people are dropping dead because they're not getting vaccinated dolly believed in funding science let's pop this up dolly pardon helped fund the moderna vaccine this is incredible because here we have an 80 year old donald trump they defunded cancer research some of this cancer research they were on the precipice of finding a vaccine for cancer that whole program has been completely defunded that's donald trump and the quote-unquote pro-life maga people they want to defund life-saving vaccines they want to defund cancer they want to defund life-saving measures because they are lying about being pro-life because maga is a pro-death cult we've got to return to a society where we look at people's actions right and not their words we look at their motivations and not their words and trump is clearly motivated by money and um all of the people surrounding him are motivated motivated by money or their appetite for to consume recreational cruelty and the fact that they are trying to claim dolly right now is just of course they're trying to do like this of course they are and i just i want to point out that i have watched so many of her interviews over the years and obviously i binged a ton last night and she said one of the things she was most proud of was her imagination library for literacy under the trump administration what what imagination library it sends a book every month free to every child until they go to school and and there has been research like they've done like the kids that are exposed to these books have a higher literacy rate when they go into school okay well that makes sense i this will not shock you at all but under the trump administration the federal funds that helped in that endeavor over 300 million books to kids slash that we don't need our kids to be smart we don't need them to read they want you stupid full stop they want you stupid and the trump administration says we're for freedom yet they're for banning books we're for freedom but yet they are dismantling the voting rights act we're for freedom but the pastor of the secretary of defense of the united states of america wants to uh repeal the 19th amendment they're not for freedom they are for control they are for stupidity they are an anti-family death cult everything about them it is an anti-family death cult these are the most hypocritical christians on the planet and despite all of this despite this case we've made here that dolly was a very um savvy way of being woke very savvy about the way she did this very plain spoken very simple maga still wants to claim her pop this up turning point usa where kids and imaginations and critical thinking go to die post the following dolly parton proved what happens when hard work meets unwavering faith she turned a humble life in the great smoky mountains into an entertainment empire poured millions into children's literacy and never forgot where she came from a true example of the american dream in action rest in peace so turning point usa charlie kirk said if he got on an airplane and there was a black pilot that would worry him that would concern him because charlie kirk was an unapologetic unrepentant racist dolly parton just said there of course black lives matter she stood with the marginalized so for turning point who was founded in an anti-science world by this guy the 70 year old who funded charlie kirk their big issues were guns and anti-science no vaccines the 70 year old that founded turning point with charlie kirk died of covid because he was too big of a dipshit to get vaccinated and charlie kirk died of something he advocated for gun violence while he was talking about gang violence which is code for black people are the only people that have gun problems meanwhile charlie kirk was shot by a white kid that was raised by a mag of family and so that to me is such a disgrace to dolly parton to have turning point usa where intellect goes to die literally intellectual suicide happens at turning point usa to act like they're so for kids reading books and it's just unbelievable how disgusting and i just want to say this turning point usa there's there's this world in the united states where it's getting more popular on college campuses they had a huge rally at the university of oklahoma and it's just rather disgusting to me that they want to pile on to her success when she stood for as an antidote to all of the hate that they preach well of course they do because here's the thing they all want to grab onto dolly parton because she's good and i think that all all of these people like turning point i think in their mind they think they're good but they know they're really not on some deep level they know it's a grift and there's one thing that comes across with dolly parton was this she was authentic she was who she was she never changed it she stood fast in her beliefs and turning point at the end of the day it's a grift to make the higher ups money and to make the electorate less intelligent so they will continue to allow the likes of donald trump and the grifting i mean it's just exact opposite so of course they're great everything you said is true but the real reason is even more insidious and nefarious than everything and it is what churches know and it is what um uh benjamin daniel who wants to do with tick tock and it is what turning point wants to do capture the youth capture the youth indoctrinate them young and that's what turning point is trying to do college is the entry point to where you leave your nest and you leave the for a lot of kids at least a lot of kids i grew up around this is a black and white world view this these are the only things you're allowed to believe and a lot of evangelical parents take their kids brain and close it to a one inch highway and this is all you can see this is all you can do this is all you can believe they get to college and it goes like this and they open up their minds and critical thinking and they're finally in a safe space to ask did noah really put all those animals on that yacht did that really happen and god and god was mad and genocided everybody is is that real and somebody's like no of course it's not and so they're hearing that for the first time turning point is actively trying to block that beautiful evolution that every person goes to where they discover who they are and what their own beliefs are and it is to keep those children's minds this wide that's it that's the point so it's really really grotesque now up at the very top of it like erica kurt i mean grift out the wazoo i mean no question i mean that's just unbelievable i'll never get over her video of her slumped over the coffin i mean i just yeah this is the weirdest i've ever seen that always pops in my head too like that how do you do that like your husband just gets shot and that's some weird and you take a photo up by the coffin a video that was some that was so weird oh god all right rest in peace dolly you're an inspiration and what what a thumbprint what it what it what a beautiful life and what it all the footage of all the singing all of the wonderful songs but just her social justice advocacy is just incredible all right that's all we have like and subscribe we'll be back later with more news