Aaron Sorokin wrote an open letter to his 15-year-old daughter, Roxy, and her mother calling Donald Trump an "incompetent pig" after he was elected president. In the letter, published by Van it Fair on Wednesday, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and creator of "The West Wing" expressed deep concern "The world changed late last night in a way I couldn’t protect us from," he wrote. "That’s a terrible feeling for a father. Sorokin wrote that Trump has "dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn."Related Link: Hollywood expresses shock, disappointment after voting results Sorokin said it wasn’t just Trump who won but the Ku Klux Klan, white nationalists, sexists, racists and buffoons."For the next four years, the President of the United States, the same
Office held by Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, F.D.R., J.F.K. and Barrack Osama," Sorokin wrote, "will be held by a man-boy who’ll spend his hours exacting Twitter vengeance against all who criticize him (and those numbers will be legion). We’ve embarrassed ourselves in front of our children and the world. He wrote that NATO allies are afraid and economists are warning about a recession.(He also mistakenly said Do futures dropped 7,000 points overnight after Trump was elected. Vanity Fair later corrected the figure to 700.)Sorokin urged Hollywood and Democrats everywhere to fight, not move to Canada as some have suggested."We do what we can to fight injustice anywhere we see it — whether it’s writing a check or rolling up our sleeves," he continued. "We fight for a woman to keep her right to choose. We fight
for the First Amendment and we fight mostly for equality — not for a guarantee of equal outcomes but for equal opportunities. We stand up Before Ronald Reagan became a symbol for the Republican party, he was a former actor whose charisma paved the way for him to become Governor of California in 1967.He had no experience governing. But people knew him from TV and movies (he also served as president of the Screen Actors Guild).Sound familiar? Of course Reagan, who died from pneumonia in 2004, went on to serve as President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.His story as a celeb leaping into politics feet first is resonate of our President-elect, Donald Trump
He was 83.Vaughn had been ill with acute leukemia and was receiving treatment in recent months in New York. The superstar singer has been Cher-ing all her feelings via Twitter this election season. She wins the award for the furthest declared destination if the real estate magnate prevails. If he were to be elected, I’m moving to Jupiter," she tweeted last year. Singer and one-half of the musical duo Sonny and Cher, Bono had only registered to vote the year before when he ran for mayor of Palm Springs, California in 1988 and won. Bono was
Popular with his constituents and served until 1992. Part of his legacy was Festival. That same year, he ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for United States Senate. In 1994, he was elected to represent California’s 44th Congressional district in the US House of Representatives, where he served two terms. When he died in 1998 from injuries sustained during a skiing accident, his CNN obituary noted that he was viewed "as a competent politician known for his sense of humor and approachability." Ventura was a true Trump forerunner, shocking folks when he went from being a reality star to public office. Trump isn’t the only reality star to try politics Born James George Janos, Ventura has had a full resume as a professional wrestler, actor, shock jock, and, of course, politician. He served as Mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota from 1991 to 1995.But even he was surprised when in 1998 he ran for Governor of Minnesota as part