Oh joy. Oh rapture.
Hollywood celebrities have come together to produce yet another anti-Trump video.
This is the third PSA of its kind since Nov. 8, when Hillary Clinton managed somehow to lose the election, meaning we’re averaging one new star-studded anti-Trump message every 20 days.
Lucky us.
The latest from Hollywood’s politically involved features a gaggle of celebrities, including Emma Stone, Natalie Portman, Amy Adams and Chris Pine, singing Gloria Gaynor’s 1979 hit, “I Will Survive.” The PSA is, of course, set against a drab and lifeless backdrop, because that seems to be the modus operandi with these weird anti-Trump messages.
W Magazine, which published the tape this week, said the new video, “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.”
Oh, please.
As mentioned, the PSA released this week is the third of its kind since Election Day.
A handful of celebrities joined together shortly after Nov. 8 to produce a video encouraging members of the Electoral College to revolt and refuse to elect Trump. After that failed, celebrities banded together again to produce a video calling on Congress to refuse to certify the Electoral College vote.
These videos also come amid several individual moments of moral preening from Hollywood’s most outspoken characters, including Meryl Streep, because we are a blessed people.
Just a thought, but someone should let Adams, Pine and others know that “I Will Survive” doesn’t really work for what they’re trying to accomplish.
The pop tune is about a woman vowing never to go back to a dead-end, one-sided relationship. Unless these celebrities have turned libertarian suddenly, and are now declaring their independence from an abusive relationship with the highest, most powerful office in the United States, the only thing that works here is the song’s title.
