President Donald Trump reacted to news of Dolly Parton’s death by claiming that the country music icon secretly “really liked me” and that her death feels like losing “a member of the family.”
“I knew her a little bit, she wasn’t a very political person,” he said in an interview with Glenn Beck on Wednesday, a day after the “Jolene” singer-songwriter’s death sent shockwaves around the world.
“She really liked me, I will tell you,” he went on, while claiming she never expressed this publicly because she didn’t want to lose some of her fanbase.
“She was of the opinion, the 50%, who needs to lose?” he said. “I don’t think it’s 50, I think it’s probably 20% of the fans, OK, not 50. But she was a great person, just a nice person. I liked her a lot.”
Dolly Parton at the 2022 Rock & Roll H... 
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