In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times, Jason Aldean was an open book about why he has “nothing but good things to say” about Donald Trump and why he decided against receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. But he was also a decidedly closed book — one with missing pages and smudged ink — about his stance on the election fraud narrative around Joe Biden’s presidency.
Asked whether he believes Biden was legitimately elected president, Aldean first says that it depends on who you ask, then offers: “I feel like that’s just old news at this point. And regardless of if he was or wasn’t, he’s been the president for the last three years.”
We’re approaching another presidential election year, and the country musician wouldn’t mind seeing Trump back on the ballot as the Republican party’s nominee. “It wouldn’t hurt my feelings. I like Trump. Hung out with him a couple times — been very cool to me,” he shared. “I have nothing but good things to say about the guy.”
The politics around Trump and Biden in particular split Aldean down the middle enough to deter him from being vaccinated. “This was a vaccine that Trump was pushing at the end of his office and Biden was saying, ‘Oh, don’t do it — it’s too soon,’” he explained. “Then as soon as Biden gets in: ‘Everybody get the shot.’”
Biden’s phrasing, in September 2020, was: “I trust vaccines. I trust scientists. But I don’t trust Donald Trump. And at this point, the American people can’t, either.” But Aldean added that he already “felt like I’m a healthy guy,” anyway, and decided: “I don’t really know what’s going on here, so I’m just gonna stay away from it. That’s what I decided to do, and I’m very happy with my decision.”
The musician often sides with the politicians who side with him, like the conservatives who backed his polarizing song “Try That in a Small Town” and its accompanying music video. “I appreciated that they understood where I was coming from on the song. I think it resonated with middle America, working-class America,” Aldean said.
