Celebrities tweet the darndest things.
Just ask Joss Whedon, who further dinged his credibility by predicting the Trump administration would soon round up, and kill, gay people if we didn’t stop him first.
Not to be outdone, actor John Cho rose up Monday with a Tweet that could be just as inane. Cho is best known for the “Harold and Kumar” trilogy as well as playing Lt. Sulu in three “Star Trek” features.
It’s clear he’s part of The Resistance, too. That rag tag band of liberals aghast at Donald Trump’s presidency may not want to claim him after this Tweet.
It’s hard not to see a connection between the environment Trump has created and what happened on that @united flight.
— John Cho (@JohnTheCho) April 10, 2017
Naturally, Twitter users piled. It’s what happens when you don’t thoroughly think through a social media message before hitting ‘send.” The results weren’t pretty. Some, though, were rather funny. Consider the following 13 responses as being either snarky, comical or just plain withering.
So Trump is responsible for the actions of a United Airlines decision and the actions of a Chicago (run by Democrats) police officer? RLY? – @bob_owens
Trump is an incompetent dolt and can alter the behavior of private airline employees AT THE SAME TIME.- @hale_razor
You just pulled the rare “Double Sulu” maneuver. It’s like the Triple Lindy of tweeting. I stand in awe – @G130J
Did you warm up before you made that stretch? – @TimBowers62
And here I was, ready to blame @WilliamShatner, but I apparently had it all backwards! – @SantasTavern
But of course…of course. For a minute there I thought you were going to do the typical liberal thing and blame it on #climatechange..phew! – @2_legion
What about Putin? Are you sure he had nothing to do with it? – @ostriana
It’s hard not to see a connection between the environment the Klingons created and what happened on the Death Star – @rnavarro2003
This is the nonsense that destroys the credibility of legitimate opposition to Trump. – @LtningSams
shorter: my hatred for Trump can be seen from space – @amadora2700
Great career move John u just hacked off 50% of trek fan base to be hip, out of touch, divisive and political. #liberallogic #maga – @HuttonPulitzer
It’s hard not to see a connection between dumb things actors say & what movies I won’t be watching – @StarFortress
It’s hard not to see a connection between your tweet and the Internet mocking you – @exjon
It’s a shame because he’s such a good, cerebral actor that I wouldn’t expect him to make such an unreasonable comment. I particularly loved him on FlashForward.
Acting cerebral is not the same as being cerebral
A good actor, yes. But remember he just parrots line someone else writes.
It took 5 writers to make him look cerebral. All he contributed was emotion.
and faked emotion at that.
Acting is what you do between reciting someone else’s words. Wis I could remember who said that.
Oh, my.
Hollywood actors should be seen and not heard.
But heavily taxed.
Most of them shouldn’t even be seen
I don’t go to the movies, so I don’t see them.
Yes let’s repeal the Hollywood tax cuts. Restore the 20% federal excise tax on movies plus downloads and all of other revenue sources.
We will call it the John Cho diversity fairness Tax Act. We will use it to find healthcare let’s say. Starting with the veterans.
I like it.
Obscene and not absurd.
You mean go back to silent films? 🙂
And lets not forget the other guy that played Sulu is a filthy bigot.
Yes, when the headline mentioned Sulu I thought they were talking about the old one, now it looks like the new Sulu is just as screwed up.
Trump is going to MAGA whether you like it or not.
He thinks “United” is short for United Federation of Planets, so it’s relevant.
I blame the character.
I see a connection between being cast as Sulu and becoming mired in bigotry and hatred.
I skipped Gay Trek and Estrogen Ghostbusters and once again am validated.
A lot of times it’s not even the actor who actually send these things. It’s some genius who works in the publicity and promotion department of his agency. He’ll likely never even see the replies. Whoever sent this one will be quietly sacked.
If that’s true he bears a lot of responsibility for hiring an idiot to represent him.
..agreed and also for not paying attention to what they’re doing.
“Set phrasers to dumb, Mr. Sulu!”
Why doesn’t he ACT like he has a brain?
Because he does not have one. The tweet is proof.
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Space Socialism is getting a bit boring and formulaic.
Well, he may have a point.
Trump has said he is going to enforce the law. He was a self-proclaimed law and order candidate. And, he had support of many police when he ran for President.
So, maybe those cops thought that “Hey. We are enforcing the law. This person is refusing to obey a lawful command by a police officer.” They could have tased him like the white guy in Penn station was tased yesterday. Instead, they just pulled him out of his seat and he resisted. I do not see how he has any complaint against the police or the airlines. The airlines should sue him. The guy has a very troubled past.
The internet outrage is just a big fart in my opinion.If this went to trial with a jury of white men, he would lose. A jury of Asians, he would win. A diverse jury would be a hung jury.
Diversity sucks. If he were white, there wouldn’t be any uproar.
What law and order demands the knocking out of a passenger who has committed no crime!
Ouch
Seems like Whomever plays Sulu ends up being an assclown. Sad.
One more movie franchise to dump. There’s not much coming out of Hollywood that I watch, anymore.
Even Takei doesn’t like this Sulu.
He said that Sulu was NOT gay.
True, at least the old Sulu respected his character, and left his gay inanity off screen.
I swear to God, I wish these people would just STFU already. I barely have anything left that I can watch, because I refuse to fund these people’s stupidity by watching their shows.
I agree with Sulu. Trump inspired the passenger to challenge Obama’s soldiers.
Next time we want your opinion we’ll beat it out of you! Oh, gosh. Sorry I got that from the Liberal Playbook.
An Asian fag who makes a living pretending he’s someone else. Tell me again why I give a f@ck what this loser has to say…