There was another mass shooting in Texas this weekend, and the East Coast braced itself for the landfall of Hurricane Dorian. But of course one of the biggest stories ended up being… Donald Trump’s feud with Debra Messing. Debra Messing is a longtime Democrat and supporter of many progressive causes. Mostly, Debra just beefs with Susan Sarandon, which is kind of funny and weird in its own way. But this story, like everything in the Trump Era, is pretty bonkers. It all started when the Trump re-election campaign announced that they would be doing a fundraising swing through California this month. Trump will be part of massive fundraisers in San Francisco (ick) and Beverly Hills, right around the Emmys. So Debra Messing was curious – who in the Hollywood community would actually attend a Trump fundraiser and donate thousands of dollars to this fascist?
Please print a list of all attendees please. The public has a right to know. https://t.co/YV4UoxrPHI
— Debra Messing (@DebraMessing) August 31, 2019
I am proud to be a donor when I contribute to a campaign. I am happy to be listed when I attend a fundraiser. I am assuming anyone who donates to Trump’s fundraiser would feel the same. Why wouldn’t they?
— Debra Messing (@DebraMessing) September 1, 2019
On one side, it does make me uncomfortable to think that people would be “targeted” for abuse and public shaming for donating to a political campaign. On the other side, it IS public information and if you donate to Trump, you absolutely deserve to be publicly ridiculed. Debra makes a good point – if you’re so proud to align yourself with white supremacy, misogyny, hatred and putting babies in cages, surely you wouldn’t mind your neighbors and coworkers knowing that about you too? But of course Trump had to respond.
I have not forgotten that when it was announced that I was going to do The Apprentice, and when it then became a big hit, helping NBC’s failed lineup greatly, @DebraMessing came up to me at an Upfront & profusely thanked me, even calling me “Sir.” How times have changed!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 1, 2019
What’s tragic is that he tweeted this after the Texas mass shooting. And clearly, he was deeply involved with hurricane preparedness for the Southeastern coast. So involved that his mind wandered and he just had to attack Debra Messing. Also: I love how everyone pointed out that Debra Messing has won Emmys and Trump never did. LMAO.
Anyway, Debra loved it and she’s now using the added attention to fundraise for all of her favorite causes and all of her Hollywood friends are sending her love and support. Meanwhile… are we ever going to see the list of Trump donors??
Now that I know I have your attention @realDonaldTrump, please read this thread— a PARTIAL list of souls lost to preventable,devastating gun violence. America wants universal background checks. The majority of Americans want assault weapons ban. Take Action and I’ll call you Sir. https://t.co/BnaS9zgNps
— Debra Messing (@DebraMessing) September 1, 2019
In the name of God, shut your racist, incompetent, incoherent yap. A baby was shot in the face. Jesus. https://t.co/3jPbzUPufn
— Bradley Whitford (@BradleyWhitford) September 1, 2019
Photos courtesy of WENN.
No, I assure you, he was not deeply involved in hurricane preparedness. He was golfing the entire weekend whenever he wasn’t incoherently tweeting. I assume you were being sarcastic.
https://twitter.com/semjax0116/status/1168372011825008640?s=21
PS. I love Bradley Whitford.
I adore Bradley Whitford. His recent exchange with Randy Rainbow was a delightful distraction from the insanity of this weekend.
Ooh, I need to find that. I love, love, love Randy Rainbow.
Check out Randy’s new “Cheeto Christ, Superstar”. It’s his best yet! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE RR!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW2SEpWWqXM
@TheOrg@Jan we grew up with the Jesus Christ Superstar cast album constantly blasting in my house and all of singing along at my mom’s insistence so Randy’s version was quickly circulated among my siblings. It’s absolutely brilliant.
I love Bradley Whitford and Randy Rainbow as well. RR’s videos are so well done!
I also love Bradley Whitford and read his tweet in Josh Lyman’s tone.
I have just started the first episode of The West Wing. I love Josh and President Bartlet!
The Dream Administration! Enjoy.
Enjoy- it’s SUCH an excellent show. Makes you wish there was still decorum in politics. Also makes you sad that 20 years later, we are still fighting many of the same
Fights from that show.
OOooooo!!!!! I am pea green with envy that you have all of those delicious episodes to look forward to. ENJOY!!!!
But he was the only one warning Alabama about Dorian!
And I appreciate that. We evacuated the entire state. Good luck, Mississippi!
https://twitter.com/martini__shot/status/1168878681650946051?s=21
Bradley Whitford FTW!
I know he was democratically elected but I’m really sorry for the world he’s USA President he makes so many of your previous ones look better in hindsight — that’s a bar set low enough for cockroaches. Between Hong Kong, Brexit and Italy it’s like an endless nightmare, please 2020 be the year the world wakes up.
He wasn’t, though. Russia hacked select voting machines in key areas to tip the electoral college in his favor.
Unfortunately he’s still the US President, there are some advantages to living in a country that has compulsory voting, makes that kind of manipulation more difficult. (Doesn’t mean you get the party you want though)
This. It is regretful that he got any votes at all, but I will go to move grave secure in the belief that the actual outcome was precisely what the polls showed: a landslide victory for the Democrats.
I’ll go one further and repeat my hunch: the GOP has been stealing elections for almost 20 years. Evidence of the his was found in the Russian hack of the GOP’s emails and this is why they do whatever Russia asks.
Sadly I can’t edit out the democratically elected – I don’t disagree that there is corruption and interference in the US election, the point was the current abuse of power the world is facing and the depressing push to the right.
Clinton won by almost 3 million more votes. Ugh, this country is a mess.
He picked the wrong one. Debra isn’t having it. Hahahahhahahahaha
LOL!!!
She is right. People need to put in more thought into who and what they support politically. And after they do, they should support only the causes they are willing to put their name to.
On a side note, I think in his little empty racist head he still understands that if he stayed in showbusiness he would still be willing to get away with so much and could still enjoy some of that pretend esteem people around him used to show him.
She’s absolutely right. It’s extremely telling that people would feel the need to keep their support of Trump secret. Shame on them.
I cannot stand DM, bur she has a point. Aside from being a loser and a pri**, DT, is a narcissist f**k!!!!!!!!!!
I can’t stand DM either.
Good for her. Also Dump seems to be getting fatter and more orange every time he’s seen in public. I wonder who is embarrassed to be photographed with who?!?!
Cheeto, who is as big as a blimp, (and getting bigger by the day) finds the forgotten daughter, Tiffany, to be too overweight to be seen with now. Apparently, in his demented mind, he is a “perfect specimen” 🤢🤮
Bradley Whitford is a gift. That is all.
And to think that just a few years ago, I was watching episodes of VEEP, thinking it was a tad unrealistic.
I just watched the last two seasons of Veep for the first time, and I felt they didnt go far enough, Trump’s seasons in the WH have been much wilder.
I am two seasons behind and I solely Parmesan Putin and his nightmare of an administration for that. I have a hard time watching the show, knowing what’s going on in the real White House.
Let me guess who’s going, chachi, Kanye, Jon voight, and dean cain, to name a few.
Clint Eastwood, Kelsey Grammar, John O’Hurley, James Woods.
Antonio sabato Jr. and the Duck Dynasty people, too.
it’ll be a veritable who’s who of “who’s that?”
It’ll be a Veritable Who’s Who of Who’s That is the name of my new band. DIBS!!!!
LOL
“Who’s who of who’s that”. OMG BEST comment! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
LMAO dying
I think we got COTW right here.
Someone on Twitter said Clint Eastwood and his chair! Can the chair donate?
For the record, ALL political contributions over ~$200 are public listed on the FEC website(s). It’s campaign finance law.
The only way around this – if people donate to political PACs which take dark money and/or political parties.
This.
I know there is paper trail of my political contributions and I know I can sleep at night not being ashamed of them when I am asked about it.
But but Susan Sarandon.
Twitter needs to ban Trump and shut him down.
Reason? He should be at his desk at work as POTUS, listening to his advisors.
Jumping frogs, Trump is a complete failure in every way.
The Right Wingers don’t understand that the rest of us will never forget their support of this administration as long as we live.