Looks like actor Rob Lowe isn't going to let pop darling Ariana Grande off the hook after she said "I hate America" in a donut shop over the Fourth of July weekend. Lowe tweeted his opinion on the singer's "lame" apology for her unpatriotic remark, Entertainment Tonight reports.
"As my [sic] granpa would say: 'Yeah, sure. Pull the other leg, it plays jingle bells!,'" the former "Parks and Recreation" star wrote, retweeting TV Guide's article about Grande's apology statement.
After leaked video surveillance from the Wolfee Donuts shop in Lake Elsinore, Calif., showed Grande licking unpurchased donuts, making out with her backup dancer and saying "I hate America" and "I hate Americans," the singer was forced to release an apology statement, as previously reported by HNGN.
"I am EXTREMELY proud to be an American and I've always made it clear that I love my country," Grande said in a statement to Us Weekly.
She went on to explain that her comment was taken out of context and she meant it in response to her frustration with the high childhood obesity rate in America, what she associates with Americans' poor eating habits.
But Lowe isn't buying Grande's health food advocate stance as the reason behind her unpatriotic statements. He compared her comments to the ones country band Dixie Chicks made at a concert in 2003 when the band's anti-war statements were viewed as anti-American.
"Cannot wait for the new Arianna Grande/Dixie Chicks jam to drop!" he tweeted, adding the hashtag #IActuallyLoveAmerica at the end.
See Lowe's tweets about Ariana Grande below.
As my grandpa would say: "Yeah, sure. Pull the other leg, it plays jingle bells!" #Lame https://t.co/4rnj6e4ZYa
— Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) July 8, 2015
Cannot wait for the new Arianna Grande/Dixie Chicks jam to drop! #IActuallyLoveAmerica — Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) July 8, 2015
