- Music
- 05 Oct 15
Stars take aim at Presidential candidate
Jennifer Lawrence has led a charge against Presidential hopeful Donald Trump, speaking out against the overt racism, bigotry and conservative views of the Republican candidate.
“If Donald Trump becomes president, that will be the end of the world,” Lawrence told Entertainment Weekly. “I genuinely believe that reality television has reached the ultimate place where now even things like this might just be for entertainment. It’s either that or it’s Hillary’s brilliant idea.”
She added acerbically, “I was watching him on the campaign trail and one guy said, ‘I love Donald Trump because he’s saying everything I’m thinking and I just can’t say it because of the PC factor.’ And I’m thinking, ‘You are absolutely right. That’s who I want representing my country, somebody politically incorrect. That will just be perfect.’”
Lawrence isn’t the only celebrity using their platform to speak out against Trump. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, longtime lefty Matt Damon lambasted Trump for his plan to build a $6.4 billion wall between the U.S. and Mexico to keep out immigrants, saying, “When people are talking about putting a wall up, I just can’t take them seriously. I can’t. It seems so un-American. We have people running for the highest elected office talking about putting a wall up that would keep my wife and her family out of the country, you know?”
George Clooney also addressed Trump’s racist comments about Mexicans at a Toronto Film Festival press conference, saying “Clearly, what he said is idiotic, of course it’s idiotic. Anybody who says as intolerant words as those should be laughed at and that’s pretty much [what] I think eventually history will do.”