Well, it can’t be as embarrassing as the “I Pledge” video, can it? You may remember the creepy, statist statement of fealty to the Dear Leader celebrities put out at the beginning of the Obama administration. Well, now A-listers are putting out a video to mark the start of the Trump era and, in its way, it’s as gobsmackingly stupid and un-American as “I Pledge.”
According to The Hill, “A bevy of Oscars front-runners — including Emma Stone, Matthew McConaughey, Natalie Portman, Taraji P. Henson, Amy Adams and Chris Pine — has a message ahead of next week’s inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump: ‘I Will Survive.’”
They’re singing the 1979 Gloria Gainor song in a video produced by W magazine. It is, according to that illustrious publication “the kind of anthem we need now more than ever with the inauguration bearing down on us. With an impending Donald Trump presidency, I will survive.”
Trump is apparently never mentioned in the video. All the same, W tells readers is “ just the antidote for a still-grieving Hollywood, many members of which were outspoken Hillary Clinton supporters over the past year — and a few of whom have found themselves on the unfriendly end of Donald Trump’s Twitter account.”
Where to begin? Maybe with the fact that, like the rest of the left, they aren’t entitled to have their candidate win an election. You win some, ya lose some. Grow up.
Furthermore, taken as two sides of the same coin “I Will Survive” and I Pledge” are the work of people who take politics, not to mention themselves, way too seriously. Sorry if Donald Trump was mean to you on Twitter, and yes, you make your living being a drama queen, but get some perspective.
George Lopez promising to Barack Obama to use less gasoline was silly and superfluous. Emma Stone's statement of political defiance is just as useless. There's nothing to defy. Trump's not coming for her scripts or her $2.5M Beverly Hills shack. Matthew McConaughey pulls down a few million per movie, and another few for those insipid Lincoln ads he does. Is that going to change in the Trump era? Outside of maybe getting a fat tax break, McConaughey isn’t going to be effected one way or another. Ditto Amy Adams and Taraji P. Henson, whoever that is.
But these are same people who thought it was brave of Meryl Streep to tell a roomful of liberal colleagues what they wanted to hear about the coming Trump darkness. So perspective isn’t high on their list of attributes.
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