Joan Baez is holding true to her activist roots.

The folk legend and lifelong social justice champion addressed the dire state of American politics while appearing on the premiere episode of the new Netflix talk show “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney” on Wednesday night.

Before going into a story about what a “funny person” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was, Baez took a second to set the anecdote into today’s “context.”

“You said I could say anything I want out here,” the “Diamonds and Rust” singer told Mulaney. “We’re all here to be silly and have fun, and as long as we recognize the fact that our democracy is going up in flames. We’re being run by a bunch of really incompetent billionaires.”

While Baez didn’t mention any particular mega-moguls by name, it’s almost certain her comment was a callout to President Donald Trump and his high-profile supporters like Elon Musk. The unelected White House insider has been at the helm of federal budget-slashing efforts under the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

In another anecdote, Baez recounted her brief but bad experience owning a car made by Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla.

“I hated that thing,” she said. “But I thought I was supposed to like it. So I drove off in it.”

Just 45 minutes later, Baez said, she “smashed it into an oak tree on my property.”

“I was thinking, ‘That’s a sign,’” she mused.

The musician has never been shy about speaking truth to power.

During her time in the San Francisco folk scene, her music became a staple of the 1960s protest movements. She was arrested during demonstrations against the Vietnam War and was a staunch ally to the Civil Rights Movement from its start.

“Nonviolent action was what I was born for. I knew that I belonged there,” she said in the 2023 documentary “Joan Baez: I Am a Noise.”

In more recent years, she’s continued her advocacy as a supporter of environmental justice, prison reform, anti-imperialism and LGBTQ+ rights.