Thursday, 23 February 2017
Read his write up below...
The Oscars are nearly upon us and tension is building. No, not for who might win the big awards on Sunday night, but over which star can win the most coveted prize for Best Celebrity Trump Hater on the Planet.
They’ve
got live TV, a billion or more people watching around the world, and a
room full of 3,500 largely like-minded souls all waiting to roar on
every Trump-bashing speech from the podium.
All
eyes, of course, will be on Meryl Streep, the Queen of Tinseltown and
self-designated Chief Trump Hater, who has spent most of this awards
season making ever more dramatic denunciations of her President. I have
no doubt that Ms Streep is beavering away right now on some more
headline-grabbing anti-Trump bile.
But
it’s worth remembering her words at the Golden Globes: ‘The instinct to
humiliate when it’s modelled by someone in the public platform,’ she
said, tearfully, ‘filters down to everybody’s life. Disrespect invites
disrespect. Violence incites violence.’ Does it, Meryl?
OK,
well forgive me if I don’t now examine the way your fellow stars have
used their own public platforms when it comes to discouraging disrespect
and violence in relation to the President?
This
week, Judd Apatow, high profile producer of movies like 40-Year-Old
Virgin and Knocked Up, told a Los Angeles audience that after election
night he felt ‘like a person about to get raped but I didn’t know how
bad it would be. Now, I feel like I’ve just been raped. I just don’t
know if I’m going to get murdered.’ The crowd wildly applauded.
Many
of them, I suspect, had been on the recent Women’s March. Yet they were
happy to cheer a sickening rape analogy from a man who has repeatedly
attacked Bill Cosby over claims that he raped women, and who just 18
months ago was even honoured by the Rape Foundation.
The
audience cheered again when Apatow crudely mocked Melania Trump: ‘Every
day she’s not in the White House, is a day she’s not getting f***ed by
Donald Trump.’ And they whooped yet again when Apatow turned his
tormenting turrets on Trump’s 10-year-old son, Barron: ‘He f**ing gets
it. He knows his dad’s a f**ing a**hole!’ Nice stuff, right? Going after
a president’s wife and young child in such a foul-mouthed, deeply
unpleasant manner is, I’m sure, exactly what Michelle Obama had in mind
when she said, ‘When they go low, we go high..’
During
the recent disgraceful riots at UC Berkeley, just as protestors were
seen on TV smashing windows, throwing smoke bombs and flares and setting
fires alight, Apatow tweeted: ‘This is just the beginning. When will
all the fools who are still supporting Trump realise what’s at stake?’
The coward then deleted his tweet, explaining: ‘I never support
violence..’ Yes, you do, Mr Apatow. Just as you use rape as a shameful
prop for your vile humour. He wasn’t the only celebrity encouraging
violence on the night of the Berkeley riots.
Comedian
Sarah Silverman called for a coup, tweeting: ‘WAKE UP & JOIN THE
RESISTANCE! ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US FASCISTS GET OVERTHROWN. MAD KING
& HIS HANDLERS GO BYE BYE.’ Indeed, violence seems to be a running
theme of these ‘peace-loving’ celebrity liberals. At the Women’s March
in Washington DC, Madonna shrieked: ‘Yes I’m angry, yes I’m outraged.
Yes, I have thought a lot about blowing up the White House!’ Robert De
Niro has repeatedly said of Trump: ‘I’d like to punch him in the face.’
Last
night, at the BRIT awards in London, Katy Perry had two giant skeletons
of President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May dancing on
stage and then set them on fire.
‘Rise
up! The Revolution is coming!’ Hillary-adoring Ms Perry tweeted after
the election. I think we can now see how that revolution would manifest
itself. Many celebrities have raced to brand Trump the new Hitler, one
of the world’s worst genocidal dictators who murdered 12 million people,
including six million Jews in the Holocaust.
Cher,
who demanded Trump be ‘thrown in a volcano’, said his presidency would
be like ‘Germany was in the ‘30s.’ Louis C.K. agreed: ‘The guy is
Hitler.’ Richard Gere preferred a different dictator comparison: ‘He’s a
guy who’s obviously Mussolini.’ Yes, obviously – because Mussolini was
only responsible for 400,000 deaths. Some celebrities who profess to be
appalled by the disrespectful way Trump talks, have no such qualms when
it comes to their own rhetoric. ‘I think he’s the f**ing most vile
person on the planet,’ said model Chrissy Teigen.
‘A
monumental a**hole.’ Andy Cohen concurred, calling Trump a ‘f**ing
a**hole’. Margaret Cho said Trump was ‘like no ply toilet paper.’ Amanda
Seyfried called him a ‘snorting piece of garbage.’ The aforementioned
De Niro said Trump was ‘a punk, a dog, a pig, a con…a fool, a bozo.’
Miley Cyrus branded him a ‘f**ing nightmare.’ Elizabeth Banks said he
was a ‘fat old orange P.O.S.’ Rihanna stated he is an ‘immoral pig.’
Jennifer
Lawrence, who had apocalyptically warned, ‘If Donald Trump becomes
president, that will be the end of the world,’ now says the only two
words she’d want to say to President Trump if she meets him are, ‘F**K
YOU!’ Johnny Depp, with a comical lack of self-awareness, said Trump is a
‘brat’. Well you should know, Johnny boy! Much of the absurdly
hypocritical hysteria surrounding Trump is driven by the fact that all
these celebrities loudly backed Hillary Clinton and never imagined she’d
lose, so they’ve gone into some kind of anaphylactic shock.
John
Legend said before the election: ‘It’s pretty clear that Trump’s brand
of politics is not a winning brand of politics.’ That complacent
confidence turned into sneering arrogance, best summed up by Hillary
herself when she branded Trump supporters a ‘basket of deplorables.’ An
attitude that Chris Kelly, head writer for Saturday
Night Live, embraced with this stunningly offensive comment after Trump
landed the Republican nomination: ‘Donald Trump is winning because
everyone you’ve ever been on a bus with gets to vote too.’
In
the end, it wasn’t a bus these self-satisfied luvvies needed to worry
about, it was the Trump Train. Hillary and the Hollywood elites got run
over by a candidate who tapped into real America’s cares and concerns,
not the ones dictated from mansions in Malibu or the Hamptons. What is
truly laughable is that all these Trump-loathing stars would still have
you believe they stand for liberal values of fairness, tolerance, peace,
respect, equality and democracy.
Yet
when confronted with their preferred candidate losing, they’ve resorted
to exactly the kind of profane, ugly trash-talking and
violence-encouraging nonsense that they claim to hate in the guy who
won. And anyone who dares to say anything moderately favourable or
reasonable about Trump, even if they didn’t vote for him or particularly
agree with his politics, must be vilified, banned, boycotted,
firebombed and shunned into silence.
Their
faux outrage is…outrageously sanctimonious. Perhaps, though, the real
reason so many celebrities hate Donald Trump is that he is now more
famous than all of them put together. Yesterday, the New York Times drew
this conclusion after reporting evidence from data firm mediaQuant,
which counts all mentions of a particular brand or personality in just
about every outlet from mainstream media to blogs and Twitter, and then
estimates what those mentions would cost if someone were to pay for
them. In January, Trump broke mediaQuant’s records, receiving $817
million in coverage.
This
was more than the next 1000 of the world’s best-known figures -
including Hillary Clinton, Kim Kardashian, Vladimir Putin and Tom Brady -
COMBINED. (Their total came to $721 million.) Given the fact there are
now many people on the planet than ever before, and most of us now have
access to the internet and social media, the Times declared that Donald
Trump is now the most famous and talked about person in history.
So when Hollywood, the most fame-hungry, egotistical place on Planet Earth, rises to denounce him on Sunday night, just bear in mind that their fury might not be entirely unconnected to this one simple fact.
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