(NewsNation) — Country music superstar John Rich says he’s known Donald Trump since Rich won the fourth season of “The Celebrity Apprentice” in 2011.
“I describe him as a blue-collar billionaire,” Rich told NewsNation’s “On Balance” in an interview recorded during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
“He is a billionaire, and he has a lot of nice stuff. But his brain, and his heart and soul, is like any blue-collar guy you ever met.”
“I think we’ve all realized that politicians, for the most part, are a bunch of liars — on both sides of the aisle,” Rich asserted. “When Trump talks, he talks like a regular person talks. And we identify with that. We go, ‘That’s a regular guy right there.’”
Rich continued his praise of Trump as the opposite of what opponents feared when he took office in 2017.
“He’s the only president in decades that no wars were started under him. As a matter of fact, he caused peace to happen. Which was the opposite of what they said. They said, ‘If you put that crazy guy in there, he’s gonna start World War III.’”
Rich asserted that the mood of the country is shifting to the right thanks to what he called the acceleration of the liberal agenda in the past few years.
“They’re in your school building, they’re coming after your kids, they’re everywhere all the time. Even people on the left have had enough of that. Even they’re sick of it. The Frankenstein they built has now turned on them,” he said.
Despite his conversative stand, Rich said liberals and conservatives have much in common these days.
“Everybody has fentanyl in their zip code. Everybody has crime in their streets. Everybody is feeling the same pain at the same time. Isn’t it interesting that pain is the great unifier?”
And he agreed with the idea that more young men are turning toward conservatism.
“Well, they want to have a future, for God’s sake. They want to get married and start a family and have a business and have a career. They want to go exhaust their potential and do that little thing called ‘the right to pursue happiness,’” Rich said.
