After the re-election of Donald Trump, many personalities from cinema, music and literature confided their bitterness on social networks.
“We have to wake up and fight.” Actress Jamie Lee Curtis, like many celebrities who supported Kamala Harris during the American presidential campaign, expressed her anger and bitterness after the re-election of Donald Trump on Tuesday.
“Many fear their rights will be denied,” she wrote on Instagram. “A lot of people from minorities and young people are going to be afraid. Gays and trans people are going to be afraid. We know that a lot of women are going to have difficulty accessing contraception. But a lot of people will be there to help them. Me too .”
“We have to wake up and fight,” she added. “Fighting for women and their children, to secure their future, to fight against tyranny, every day that God makes. One fight at a time. One protest at a time. This is what it means to to be an American. Always and for eternity, no matter what happens.”
Cardi B also reacted strongly on X to the election of Donald Trump by openly criticizing the people who had voted for the new president. “This is why some states are going to be hit by hurricanes,” she said in a video deleted minutes after being posted online.
If the rapper did not directly cite the states she was thinking of, The Associated Press announced a few moments before the video that the states of Florida, Louisiana, Texas and North Carolina had overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump. Florida was recently devastated by a hurricane.
“Abandon” the Democratic Party
Adam McKay, director of successful political comedies like The Big Short et Don’t Look Upfor his part called on X to “abandon” the Democratic Party. “I believe it is time to abandon the Democratic Party,” wrote the filmmaker, who made his name in the 2000s with satires of the Bush administration.
Adam McKay also criticized the Democratic strategy. “Who would have thought that lying about Biden's health for two years, refusing to organize a Convention to choose a candidate (…) and massacring children in Gaza for a year would be the winning strategy? I believed that the trick of liberals was to be smart? That's not the case?”
“Why? Give me a reason!!!”, exclaimed in turn on X Christina Applegate, the star of the sitcom Married, two children. “My children are crying because their rights as women may be taken away. If you don't agree, you can stop following me.”
The novelist Stephen King has finally used on of a metaphor to denounce the re-election of Donald Trump. “There is often a sign in stores that sell beautiful and fragile objects: 'if you break it, you pay for it.' The same can be said of democracy.
