Trump’s massive losses last week should rightfully embarrass anyone and everyone who is still somehow remaining loyal to him, but the MAGA faithful is doubling down on Lame Duck Donald despite never getting the winning — or anything else — it was promised.
If the Blue Wave wasn’t enough to wash away the remnants of Cult 45/47, the weekend’s Dana White Debacle really should’ve pushed them over the edge and into calling for the 25th Amendment.
Instead, we’re seeing a lot of that MAGA Bully False Bravado of “He’s still your President!” while still claiming a UFC fighter who beat his wife is the right person to face the press from an official White House position.
Someday we’re going to find out just how much the paid MAGA influencers have earned over the last decade of pushing Trump’s Putin-backed propaganda. There are just too many people whose loyalty can be bought. But what about those who were already rich and famous, or at least had some sort of celebrity, during Trump’s first administration and are still loyal to him to this day?
There’s an ever-growing list of celebrities who are fine with having their names — and, therefore, their careers — tied to Trump for the rest of their lives.
As Rick Wilson famously said, “Everything Trump touches dies.” What do the famous get out of still supporting Trump, who has a track record most people would run from, because guilt by association is a real thing?
When Trump first ran in 2015, the first celebrities to publicly support him all seemed to have something in common: they were men whose acting careers had long since peaked in one way or another. Some had had great successes, some were one-hit wonders, but most of them were in the “where are they now?” area of pop culture awareness thanks to their own shady behaviors, and many of us piled on them as we rightfully dragged them for aligning with a loser when their careers were already in the toilet.
Jon Voight. Mel Gibson. Dean Cain. Scott Baio. James Woods. Roseanne Barr. Kid Rock. Lee Greenwood. The list goes on to this day, while they jealously mock any liberal celebrities who still have flourishing careers.
It was astonishing at the time to watch them throw their lives away for such an obvious and slimy con man. Every time we learn another celebrity went full MAGA, be they A or D-list, we mock and cancel them, which makes them just puff themselves up even more with that MAGA false bravado they copied from Trump.
The men were bad enough, but what about the famous women who have stood with Trump, from the ones who’ve been loyal for more than a decade to the more recent ones who have decided that negative attention is better than no attention at all? Trump’s decades-long disgusting behavior towards women is well-documented, yet millions of women willfully ignore it all. Those women were fine with the Access Hollywood tape, don’t want to believe any of the accusations in the Epstein Files, and still won’t accept that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll, even though he’s paid her the $5.8 million he owed her.
They don’t mind that Trump has been married three times and cheated on all three of his wives. They wouldn’t even vote to save their own bodily autonomy and the right to basic healthcare.
Caitlyn Jenner is one such example. After finally transitioning to live her truth, Caitlyn didn’t join the Democrats, who have always fought for LGBTQ+ protections. Nope, she remained a staunch Trump-supporting Republican, even after MAGA had mocked her amid their disgusting transphobic comments about bathrooms and girls’ sports.
Make any of this make sense, please.
I just can’t wrap my brain around throwing away an established career for a con man owned by Putin, but my extensive and rapidly growing list of MAGA blocks on Twitter has always included just as many women as men. I’ve earned those badges of honor from the likes of Ivanka Trump, Roseanne, the recently resigned Harmeet Dhillon, Mercedes “Mrs CPAC” Schlapp, Katie Miller, Paula White, Jenny McCarthy, and Cheryl Hines, just to name a few. I enjoyed all of them, but my most recent trophy is a great big one.
Just ask Donald Trump.
For some reason, rapper Nicki Minaj has decided that hanging out with Donald Trump is a great idea, and he rewarded her by admiring her posterior from a rally stage. Imagine if Barack Obama sexualized a woman who appeared anywhere with him, let alone on camera in front of a rally crowd who then cheered him for it.
Minaj, who was born in Trinidad, isn’t an American citizen, but rather a “lawful permanent resident,” having secured her Green Card status at the age of five, when her family relocated to the U.S. This means she can’t vote. Yet there she was on stage with Trump in Michigan, decked out in Gucci (so relatable!), and used her substantial, um, platform to platform for him — again, even though she can’t vote for him.
Nicki’s open support for Epstein’s Bestie is harder to ignore, because she’s trying to get pardons for her husband, who’s a registered sex offender, and her brother, who’s been serving a sentence of 25 years to life since 2020 for repeatedly raping his then-11-year-old stepdaughter.
I let her know a few of my thoughts. She wasn't too happy.
This is the MAGA mentality. This is nothing to admire. Blocking the truth you don’t like doesn’t make it any less true, no matter how rich and famous you are. Anyone aligning with Trump should rightfully be banished from society — or at least the modern version of being cancelled on social media.