Clay Aiken Is No Longer Defending Donald Trump

He’s taking it back. Clay Aiken rescinded his support of President Donald Trump and apologized for having stood by him in the past.

“Remember all those times I defended @realDonaldTrump and believed he was not actually racist? Well… I am a f--king dumba--s. #imsorry,” the former Celebrity Apprentice competitor, 38, tweeted on Tuesday, August 15. “I’ve always thought he would be dumpster fire as a president and I was right about that. I just didn’t think he was racist #wrong.”

Although he holds membership in the Democratic party, the American Idol alum has outspokenly supported Trump, 71, in the past. “Anybody who discounts him is shortsighted,” he told Billboard in August 2015 of the business mogul’s bid for the presidency. “I don’t think anybody should discount him. Nobody thought that we would see him in the position he is in right now. He is certainly the front-runner with no signs of that fading.”

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Clay Aiken has also appeared in Sharknado 5: Global Swarming.