Jack Osbourne says he'll be voting for Donald Trump in November after previously saying that the former president needed a "slap."
During Tuesday's episode of The Osbournes Podcast, which sees Sharon, Ozzy, Jack and Kelly Osbourne catch up on current events, the family discussed the recent assassination attempt on Trump, the Republican nominee for president.
A gunman opened fire while Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13, injuring the former president, killing one attendee, and leaving two others wounded. The suspect, identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, was shot and killed by the Secret Service.
Now, Osbourne says he wants to vote for Trump because of how he handled the assassination attempt.
Newsweek reached out to Osbourne and Trump's spokespersons via email for comment on Tuesday.
"But I got to say it's probably not going to be a popular statement amongst mainstream, but like I'm, I'm voting for him after that because I look I, I—" Osbourne said before Sharon interjected: "He's as strong as an ox."
Osbourne continued: "Yes and like, I look at, I look at—all right, a president should be...but I look at it like this, a president should be a leader, a president should be strong, a president should be able to kind of walk through anything. He gets shot in the ear, stands up, raises his fist while they're trying to drag him off the stage.
"He doesn't want to leave the stage, and I'm like, OK, like he might not be totally full of s*** because someone who's full of s*** if they get shot, the f****** facade fades real quick, and you start seeing someone's true colors."
Osbourne's comment is miles away from what he's previously said about Trump.
In 2015, he appeared on Meghan McCain's radio show to talk politics in Hollywood. He was asked his thoughts on the 2016 presidential election between Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Osbourne and McCain discussed Trump saying that her father, the late Senator John McCain, who was held captive during the Vietnam War, was "not a war hero" at an event on the campaign trail.
"I was like, 'OK, dude, you need to get slapped,'" he told McCain.
However, Osbourne didn't show his support for Clinton in the episode either, saying: "She's the Evil Empire to me."
While Osbourne has occasionally publicly expressed his political opinions, he has never confirmed whether he is a Republican, a Democrat, or aligns with any other political party.
Elsewhere in Tuesday's episode of The Osbournes Podcast, Osbourne discussed the assassination attempt against Trump in further detail.
"I didn't realize, um, with the shooting, the shooter got off 13 shots. Did you know that? Thirteen shots, and it wasn't the people—everyone sees the shot of, like, Trump at the podium; it wasn't anyone behind Trump that got shot; it was to the side. You can see the bullet in air."
Kelly Osbourne added: "You can also see that if he didn't turn his head at the last second, he would have been killed."
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