{"id":4044,"date":"2026-08-27T13:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=4044"},"modified":"2026-08-27T13:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:52:42","slug":"after-her-death-donald-trump-makes-claim-about-relation-to-dolly-parton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=4044","title":{"rendered":"After her death, Donald Trump makes claim about relation to Dolly Parton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton\u2019s passing at 80 has left millions clinging to every new detail about her final days and the legacy she chose to leave behind. Her nephew\u2019s heartbreaking video and her team\u2019s confirmation of a brief battle with cancer framed a farewell rooted in faith, family, and quiet dignity. Tributes poured in from around the world, but Donald Trump\u2019s response instantly stood apart, both in scale and in tone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ordering flags flown at half\u2011staff until 2026, he elevated her to a symbol of national mourning, then added a deeply personal twist. Claiming she \u201creally liked\u201d him, yet stayed silent to avoid alienating fans, he dragged Dolly\u2019s famously apolitical stance into the center of America\u2019s cultural war. In life, she declined the Presidential Medal of Freedom to avoid \u201cdoing politics.\u201d In death, she\u2019s being pulled into it anyway\u2014leaving fans to decide whose version of Dolly they believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolly Parton\u2019s passing at 80 has left millions clinging to every new detail about her final days and the legacy she chose to leave behind. Her nephew\u2019s heartbreaking video and &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-4044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4046,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4044\/revisions\/4046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}