Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\nBilly Ray Cyrus supports Donald Trump, citing upbringing rather than party loyalty. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n
American singer Billy Ray Cyrus has spoken about why he continues to stand behind Donald Trump, explaining that his approach to the presidency comes from the way he was brought up rather than any party loyalty.<\/p>\n
\n In a new Sky News interview, the 64-year-old was asked whether Trump should
\n try to be less divisive, but he avoided weighing in on the President\u2019s tone and instead pointed to advice he says he heard throughout his childhood.\n <\/p>\n
He said: \u201cMy dad was a Democrat and served in the Kentucky legislature for over 20 years, but my dad always said, \u2018When the President asks you to do something, you do it, son.\u2019 I can\u2019t speak to his voice \u2013 he\u2019s the President.”<\/p>\n
Cyrus went on to say that he has worked with leaders from both major parties over the course of his career.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cI\u2019ve had both Democratic and Republican Presidents. Served with Bill Clinton, with President Obama. Mr Bush, Mr Bush\u2019s dad. And Mr Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bang Showbiz 15 Apr, 2026 07:57 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1443,8239,23607,32319,4057,17466,11783,8608,13982,39167,2178,156,75387,37119,2082,71,692,4279,111,139,69,4762,165069,2572,37410,22393,4625,54894,14446,6100,131,1361,2179,3040,4276],"class_list":["post-380565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-about","tag-american","tag-approach","tag-backs","tag-behind","tag-billy","tag-brought","tag-comes","tag-continues","tag-cyrus","tag-donald","tag-entertainment","tag-explaining","tag-explains","tag-for","tag-from","tag-he","tag-loyalty","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-party","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-rather","tag-ray","tag-singer","tag-spoken","tag-stand","tag-still","tag-than","tag-that","tag-trump","tag-us","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}