Country singer Jason Aldean relished celebrities’ renewed support for President Donald Trump since he’s taken office for the second time.

Aldean performed at the Liberty Ball on Monday evening. The country star has long supported Trump and endorsed him ahead of November’s election. Among fellow celebrities, he was in the minority.

“I do feel a little vindicated. My wife and I talk about this all the time. For the last, you know, four years especially, it’s just been taking a lot of heat for stepping out and kind of telling people how we feel about the state of the country and that regime that had been in office,” Aldean said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends on Tuesday. “But it’s cool to look here this week and see all the celebrities and people showing up that didn’t really speak out before. But, you know, it’s a good thing.”

Inauguration celebrations included a performance by the Village People on the eve of Inauguration Day. Trump often danced to the group’s “Y.M.C.A.” song while on the campaign trail. Other performers included Billy Ray Cyrus and Carrie Underwood. Aldean expressed his amazement at Underwood singing “America the Beautiful” a capella after her soundtrack failed during the ceremony. According to him, it’s “a hard song anyway.”

“When you’re supposed to be singing to a track, and you know that’s what gives you pitch reference for the song and to not have that … that’s a big move, and that’s a pro move on her part,” Aldean said. “I thought it was great.”

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“I think for the last few years, as much as a lot of the media has tried to make it seem like everything has been so great, it hasn’t. And so I think a lot of us knew that for a long time, and I think a lot of other people are starting to see it now,” he continued. “So to have President Trump back in office I think it gives everybody a sense of relief.”

Aldean also spoke at the Republican National Convention last year in the days after the assassination attempt against Trump.