Country music singer and “America’s Got Talent” finalist Benton Blount likes to post memes to Facebook “poking fun at politics,” but he never suspected he would lose a gig because of his conservative views.
“I don’t understand what’s going on,” Blount told The Greenville News.
Blount posted a picture to his Facebook page on Election Day that showed him eating a Chick-Fil-A sandwich, while wearing a Make America Great Again hat and wearing an “I voted” sticker, along with the message: “Someone reading this just got offended multiple times. My work here is done! #Vote”
Shortly after, Blount was banned from Facebook because the post allegedly “did not meet community standards.”
And that was just the beginning.
“I had to wait 24 hours and I got back out of (Facebook) jail,” Blount said in a video posted Wednesday. “I drove down here from Greenville, South Carolina to the venue (in Atlanta). I get a call from my friend from California who informs me that not only have I been banned from Facebook, as a result being banned from Facebook I was pulled off the Billy Gibbons tour, effective immediately.”