‘White Lotus’ Star: I Couldn’t Be Friends with a Trump Voter
Carrie Coon's confession puts HBO Max show's viral moment in stark relief
“The White Lotus” served up plenty of shocking moments in its third season.
Guest star Sam Rockwell’s sexually-charged monologue comes to mind. So does the brother-to-brother buss between co-stars Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola.
Perhaps the most outrageous sequence? A 40-something woman, played by Leslie Bibb, confesses she voted for Donald Trump to her presumably liberal friends.
The sequence must have been challenging for co-star Carrie Coon. She played Laurie, part of a galpal trio including Bibb’s character and Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan).
Why? It turns out the talented Coon suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome in real life.
The 44-year-old actress recently told “The View” co-hosts how she’d handle having a close friend who happened to be MAGA. Short answer? Friendship over.
“There was a time when it was possible to have conversations about it. But when you’re in an authoritarian slide, it becomes a closed system. The leader is the source of information—that’s not penetrable. When you’re inside of that circular information system, then it’s very hard. It’s very hard to talk about anything because there’s no basis in fact.”
It’s one thing to have friends with different views, she said. It’s another to enjoy the company of a Trump supporter.
“I believe in science … there’s no middle ground there.”
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Coon is far from alone in celebrity circles. The obscure band Red Jumpsuit Apparatus just announced it doesn’t want any Trump voters to attend their shows.
“If you voted for Donald Trump, do not come to my shows — forever, not just like these four years … Don’t come to my shows because you’re going to hear a lot of woke propaganda, and you’re going to hear the actual words of Jesus, and you’re going to see a lot of acceptance from all areas of life and races, and you’re just going to see a lot of harmony. OK? That’s not what you’re about, OK? Don’t come. Refunds are available. Forever, don’t come. Goodbye.”
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin said late last year that she wouldn’t invite a Trump voter to Thanksgiving dinner.
“I really do feel that this candidate, you know, President-elect Trump, is just a different type of candidate, from the things he said and the things he’s done and the things he will do, it’s more of a moral issue for me and I think it’s more of a moral issue for other people,” she said. “We’re just — you know, I would say it was different when, let’s say, Bush got elected. You may not have agreed with his policies, but you didn’t feel like he was a deeply flawed person, deeply flawed by character, deeply flawed in morality.”
Stars like Eminem and Seth Meyers shared similar thoughts during President Trump’s first term. The now 52-year-old rapper put his feelings into song back in 2017, demanding Trump fans stop listening to his music.
The far-Left Meyers echoed that sentiment from his NBC perch.
“Get off the fence. Do you support him or do you support this show, that constantly mocks and denigrates everything about him? I know it’s a tough call, but the time has come to make a decision. Now, I’m not much of a rapper, but here it goes. My name is Seth and I’m here to say, if you like Trump, then go away.”
Why do BORING SCUM LEFTIST IDIOTS WHO DON’T KNOW WHAT A G-DANGED WOMAN IS, always think everybody wants to be in their company? I FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT THEM It’s the stupid weak punk “conservatives” on MY SIDE who have “CONSERVED” us all the ay to trans kids, 80 million dead babies and an entire generation of complete MORONS who no longer know WHAT A VAGINA IS FOR OR WHO HAS THEM, who are the problem. The founders of this country who WENT TO WAR OVER A G-DANGED TAX WERE MEN OF STRONGER METTLE than the LICKSPITTLE REPUBLICANS we are forced to have as our leader. Is there any doubt that Mitch McConnell AND Mike Johnson would PERFORM A HOMOSEXUAL ACT ON TELEVISION before they’d pick up arms against liberals for TEACHING THAT FILTH TO OUR CHILDREN?????
Ms. Coon, and all the other TDS sufferers, your proposal is acceptable.
Who?
CoeXiSt
None of these “stars” has any right to take a position based on morality. As far as I know, not one of them condemned the George Floyd, BLM or more recently the anti-Ice riots where rioters destroyed property and hurt innocent people. Not one.
By making these statements against President Trump and his supporters, they reveal their racism and fundamental hatred.
The picture at the top of this article is just A.W.F.u.L.
Affluent White Female Liberals
Yuck.
“If you voted for Donald Trump, do not come to my shows ….you’re going to hear the actual words of Jesus, and you’re going to see a lot of acceptance from all areas of life and races, and you’re just going to see a lot of harmony. ” Does this imbecile even listen to himself? It is the hateful, hate-filled, intolerance of Liberals that has created the situations we live under today. They are the ones who riot. They are the ones who murder. They are the ones who beat up children, elderly, and disabled people they disagree with.
I don’t know who Coons is but the name is apropos. KMWA.
The non-judgemental and tolerant left hah!