The Trump Dossiers: Hollywood Cowards
Most of our industry leaders have cozied up to the president. Let’s not let them forget
Late yesterday, a remarkable thing happened — something akin to spotting Bryan Lourd driving a Winnebago down Wilshire Blvd. in these crazy times.
Chappell Roan, one of the biggest musicians on the planet, took an actual moral stand and announced she had left Wasserman. This after agency head Casey Wasserman showed up in the Epstein files looking, shall we say, not his best.
After a year of silence, it seems protest may be having its pop culture moment. Finally.
Roan’s decision came a few days after Bad Bunny’s MAGA-triggering Super Bowl halftime show and after the Grammys kicked off a wave of anti-ICE chic in the culture. Meanwhile, at the Winter Olympics, the vice president was roundly booed at the opening ceremonies, as no world leader has been in recent times.
Somehow, the Culture War has turned inside out to the point where the NFL and NRA are, for the moment, willing to antagonize Trump…
But still, there is one corner of our world where the elites are still cowering, terrified of speaking out. And still actively fawning over a leader who shared racist memes of Barack and Michelle Obama, and pressured Sen. Chuck Schumer to name New York’s Penn Station after him. And that is only in the past week.
Congratulations, Hollywood, you are the winner!
So, it’s time we named names. Not just the leaders who are too afraid to protest, but also those actively aiding and abetting an administration misaligned with 90 percent of creative people in this industry.
Let’s start: