The world is mourning the death of country music icon Dolly Parton at age 80, a beloved figure who remained largely neutral in the culture wars. She embraced inclusivity, and earned a very devoted following in the LGBTQ+ community. She became a national treasure as she built libraries, while Trump built a ballroom.

Still, to hear Trump tell it, she liked him.

Donald J. Trump’s attempt to pay tribute to Dolly Parton quickly became less about the legendary singer and more about reassuring everyone that she really liked him.

After admitting that Parton wasn’t particularly political, Trump nevertheless managed to characterize her as “opinionated” before wandering into a bizarre aside about the “50 percent” of fans who supposedly need to “lose” — a figure he immediately revised downward to 20 percent.

He then returned to praising Parton as a “great person” and “nice person,” reiterating that he liked her a lot before explaining that he thought lowering the flags was “a natural thing.”

Because apparently even a tribute to Dolly Parton must somehow circle back to Donald Trump.

"We all knew her so well," Trump told Glen Beck. "I knew it a little bit. She wasn't a very political person"

"She really liked me," the President insisted. "I will tell you, but she also wanted to say, very, you know, she was uh... opinion, you know, the fifty percent who need to lose."

"I don't think it's fifty; I think it's probably twenty percent of the fans, okay, not fifty, but she was a great person, that she was a nice person, you know, like her a lot, and I thought it was a natural thing to lower the flags," he added in his rambling tribute.

Honestly, I can't even translate that gibberish. The man can turn a moment of silence into an incoherent campaign speech.