Trump: Dolly Parton ‘really liked me,’ but ‘wasn’t a very political person’

President Trump said in an interview Wednesday that the late country music icon Dolly Parton liked him but was not “a very political person.”

“She was unique. She was amazing, and to lose her, it’s like losing a member of the family,” Trump told conservative talk show host Glenn Beck.

“We all knew her so well. I knew her a little bit. She wasn’t a very political person,” he continued.

“She really liked me, I will tell you,” he added.

Parton’s family announced Tuesday that she died at the age of 80 following a brief battle with cancer.

Tributes have since poured out for Parton on both sides of the aisle . Trump announced in a Truth Social post Tuesday that flags across the country would be lowered in her honor.

Former President Obama remembered Parton in a post on social platform X, saying “it’s hard to imagine many people having a bigger impact than Dolly Parton.”

Parton never revealed her party affiliation and veered away from public political endorsements. However, the singer was a vocal supporter of LGBTQ rights and publicly opposed a number of anti-transgender laws in her home state of Tennessee in 2023.

Parton also championed a number of other causes including childhood literacy and coronavirus research.

She repeatedly said in interviews over the years, “I don’t do politics.”

Parton turned down offers of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from both Trump and former President Biden.