Singer Jelly Roll cries on Jimmy Kimmel show after Trump-joke backlash: 'I am a Christian'

Singer Jelly Roll cries on Jimmy Kimmel show after Trump-joke backlash: ‘I am a Christian’


Jelly rolls are meant to make people happy, not spout political messaging.

This might be why platinum-selling singer Jason DeFord, aka Jelly Roll, did not handle the backlash to his partisan jokes very well.

‘The American dream should be for everybody.’

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Tears of a clown

Jelly Roll finished his week as the guest host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Thursday, with a near-20-minute monologue addressing the blowback from his jokes about President Donald Trump’s weight.

While DeFord’s jokes did not approach the realm of egregious — although he remarked that the president likely couldn’t see his penis — he was seemingly unprepared for the responses a spot on the obviously liberal talk show would garner.

Jelly Roll spent most of his time trying to convince the audience he is neither liberal

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