They didn’t mean it
Those celebrities who promised they’d leave the country if Donald Trump was elected president now say they didn’t mean it.
Entertainer (or whatever she is) Miley Cyrus, who threatened to “move out da country,” said she “accepted” Trump as president.
Actor Bryan Cranston, who said he would “definitely move” even though a Trump election is “not real to me that that would happen,” now says he’s staying. “Although shocked and disappointed by the outcome,” he tweeted, “I hope the pres-elect will work to unify our wounded country. I sincerely wish him success.”
Comedian Amy Schumer promised to move to London if the businessman won. Now she says she was kidding and, sort of, took those who said such things and meant them to task. “First of all the interview where I said I would move was in London and was said in jest,” she said in an Instagram post. “Not that anyone needs more than a headline to count something as official news. Anyone saying pack your bags is just as disgusting as anyone who voted for this racist homophobic openly disrespectful woman abuser.” Maybe she’ll change her mind, after all.
And for those who thought we were finished with race-baiter Al Sharpton, think again. “All of us said that,” he told a TMZ cameraman about leaving. “That was said in jest. We’re not going anywhere. Clearly, it was said in jest. If that’s the comfort they got, they might as well get ready for an uncomfortable ride.”
How can we go on?
If this went on at institutions of higher learning across the country, God help our future. But last week at Yale University, supposedly one of the top schools in the country, students in one class were allowed to skip their midterm economics exams if they were too upset from the trauma of a presidential election in which they weren’t happy with the winner.
The managing editor of the Yale Daily News tweeted an image of an email in which the professor said he had been getting “heartfelt notes from students who are in shock over the election results.” The ones the professor found “most upsetting” were from “those who fear, rightly or wrongly, for their own families.” At the time, he was considering postponing the exam.
In the end, he decided to make the exam optional and weight the grades differently whether or not the students decided to take the test.
Apparently, the econ students weren’t the only Yale students who were suffering so mercilessly. One student wrote his biology professor that “the majority of the student body will be emotionally distraught and distracted tomorrow, and our performance on the midterm will be hindered massively.” Could the midterm be postponed, the student wondered, to “preserve the sanctity and mental health of students in the class?”
The biology student got a “no” from his professor, which at least briefly makes us believe there is some sanity left at Yale.
Madam President
Newsweek is blaming the error on its distributor, but about 125,000 copies of the magazine with the cover photo of Hillary Clinton and the words “Madam President” were sent out for sale.
Editors tweeted late last week that two editions of the magazine had been produced, one with Clinton on the cover and one with now-President-elect Donald Trump. It was distributor Topix Media that made the boo-boo, the magazine editors said.
“Like everybody else,” Topix Chief Executive Officer Tony Romando told The New York Post, “we got it wrong.”
Here’s part of the editorial Newsweek had decked up for Clinton’s coronation: “President-elect Hillary Clinton ‘went high’ when her opponent and his supporters went ever lower ” and so it transpired that “on election day, Americans across the country roundly rejected the kind of fear and hate-based conservatism peddled by Donald Trump The highest glass ceiling in the western world had finally shattered.”
Romando, perhaps thinking his magazine was about to have “Dewey Defeats Truman” infamy, said all wholesalers and retailers were asked to return the errant copies because they were just sure the Trump issue would sell 150,000 copies.
“We expect it to sell very well,” he said, “as there is obviously a great demand.”
Perhaps Clinton can get a copy of the “Madam President” issue for her scrapbook.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was not a happy camper after the presidential election of Donald Trump.Sour justice
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wore what’s become known as her “dissent jabot” the morning after Donald Trump’s presidential victory.
The justice, who despises Trump and had said it might be time to move to New Zealand if he won, explained to Yahoo News in 2014 that she wears the collar when she issues dissenting opinions. Court observers said since no court opinions were read on Wednesday she undoubtedly was dissenting about Trump.
“For the country, [a Trump presidency] could be four years,” she told The New York Times in July. “For the court, it could be – I don’t even want to contemplate that.”