The 22-year-old shared a photo of her dog on Facebook next to a plate of food and it went viral — but not just because her dog is really, really cute. In the caption, Wiseman made a powerful statement about sexual assault, using her dog, and the plate of food, as a metaphor.
To the people that say women get raped due to the way they are dressed. This is my dog. His favorite food is steak. He… Posted by Bree Wiseman on Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Wiseman wrote:
To the people that say women get raped due to the way they are dressed. This is my dog. His favorite food is steak. He is eye level with my plate. He won’t get any closer because I told him no. If a dog is better behaved than you are, you need to reevaluate your life. Feel free to share, my dog is adorable.
So far, over 325,000 people have shared the post. And thousands have left comments, most of them in full support of both the message, and the dog.
Wiseman told the Huffington Post she decided to share the post to take a stand against victim-blaming, in part because of her own experiences with sexual assault. She said:
The only person to blame in a rape offense is the rapist. It was their decision to rape. People shouldn’t have to worry about what they chose to wear for fear of rape. I want people to see that this is a problem, and to stand together against victim-shaming.
She continued:
If a 4-year-old pit bull understands the word no,’ even though he is looking at something he wants so bad he is literally drooling, then adults should understand ‘no,’ no matter how the other adult is dressed… How is it that a simple-minded animal has the ability to understand better than a large part of the adult population?
Good question. Although we already knew dogs are better than people. That being said, kudos to Wiseman for speaking up, and to her dog, for being such a good boy.
This article was originally published by our partners at someecards.
This story was originally published on The Mighty and originally appeared here on 07.21.17
Most people imagine depression equals “really sad,” and unless you’ve experienced depression yourself, you might not know it goes so much deeper than that. Depression expresses itself in many different ways, some more obvious than others. While some people have a hard time getting out of bed, others might get to work just fine — it’s different for everyone.
To find out how depression shows itself in ways other people can’t see, we asked The Mighty mental health community to share one thing people don’t realize they’re doing because they have depression.
Here’s what they had to say:
1. “In social situations, some people don’t realize I withdraw or don’t speak much because of depression. Instead, they think I’m being rude or purposefully antisocial.” — Laura B.
2. “I struggle to get out of bed, sometimes for hours. Then just the thought of taking a shower is exhausting. If I manage to do that, I am ready for a nap. People don’t understand, but anxiety and depression is exhausting, much like an actual physical fight with a professional boxer.” — Juli J.
3. “Agreeing to social plans but canceling last minute. Using an excuse but really you just chickened out. It makes you think your friends don’t actually want to see you, they just feel bad. Obligation.” — Brynne L.
4. “Hiding in my phone. Yes, I am addicted to it, but not like other people. I don’t socialize, I play games or browse online stores to distract myself from my negative thoughts. It’s my safe bubble.” — Eveline L.
5. “Going to bed at 9 p.m. and sleeping throughout the night until 10 or 11 a.m.” — Karissa D.
6. “Isolating myself, not living up to my potential at work due to lack of interest in anything, making self-deprecating jokes. I’ve said many times before, ‘I laugh, so that I don’t cry.’ Unfortunately, it’s all too true.” — Kelly K.
7. “When I reach out when I’m depressed it’s ’cause I am wanting to have someone to tell me I’m not alone. Not because I want attention.” — Tina B.
8. “I don’t like talking on the phone. I prefer to text. Less pressure there. Also being anti-social. Not because I don’t like being around people, but because I’m pretty sure everyone can’t stand me.” — Meghan B.
9. “I overcompensate in my work environment… and I work front line at a Fitness Centre, so I feel the need to portray an ‘extra happy, bubbly personality.’ As soon as I walk out the doors at the end of the day, I feel myself ‘fall.’ It’s exhausting… I am a professional at hiding it.” — Lynda H.
10. “The excessive drinking. Most people assume I’m trying to be the ‘life of the party’ or just like drinking in general. I often get praised for it. But my issues are much deeper than that.” — Teresa A.
11. “Hiding out in my room for hours at a time watching Netflix or Hulu to distract my mind or taking frequent trips to the bathroom or into another room at social gatherings because social situations sometimes get to me.” — Kelci F.
12. “Saying I’m tired or don’t feel good… they don’t realize how much depression can affect you physically as well as emotionally.” — Lauren G.
13. “Answering slowly. It makes my brain run slower, and I can’t think of the answers to the questions as quickly. Especially when someone is asking what I want to do — I don’t really want anything. I isolate myself so I don’t have to be forced into a situation where I have to respond because it’s exhausting.” — Erin W.
14. “Sometimes I’ll forget to eat all day. I can feel my stomach growling but don’t have the willpower to get up and make something to eat.” — Kenzi I.
15. “I don’t talk much in large groups of people, especially when I first meet them. I withdraw because of my anxiety and depression. People think I’m ‘stuck up.’ I’m actually scared out of my mind worrying they don’t like me, or that they think I’m ‘crazy’ by just looking at me…” — Hanni W.
16. “Not keeping in touch with anyone, bad personal hygiene and extremely bad reactions to seemingly trivial things.” — Jenny B.
17. “Being angry, mean or rude to people I love without realizing it in the moment. I realize my actions and words later and feel awful I had taken out my anger on people who don’t deserve it.” — Christie C.
18. “Purposely working on the holidays so I can avoid spending time with family. It’s overwhelming to be around them and to talk about the future and life so I avoid it.” — Aislinn G.
19. “My house is a huge mess.” — Cynthia H.
20. “I volunteer for everything, from going to PTO meetings to babysitting to cleaning someone else’s house for them. I surround myself with situations and obligations that force me to get out of bed and get out of the house because if I’m not needed, I won’t be wanted.” — Carleigh W.
What can we learn from letting seventh graders take the SAT?
In the 1960s, psychologist Julian Stanley realized that if you took the best-testing seventh graders from around the country and gave them standard college entry exams, those kids would score, on average, about as well as the typical college-bound high school senior.
However, the seventh graders who scored as well or better than high schoolers, Stanley found, had off-the-charts aptitude in quantitative, logical, and spatial reasoning.
In other words, they were gifted.
In the 1970s, Stanley and his team launched a full-scale study, identifying many of America’s gifted kids and tracking them throughout their lives.
The study, called the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth never ended and is now nearly 45 years in the making. It has followed countless kids from middle school into their careers as some of America’s top politicians, scientists, CEOs, engineers, and military leaders.
Stanley passed away in the mid-2000s, but psychologist David Lubinski helped bring the study to Vanderbilt University in the 1990s, where he now co-directs it with Camilla P. Benhow.
It’s not a stretch to call this the biggest and most in-depth study on intellectual “precociousness.” The results of the study thus far are equal parts fascinating and genuinely surprising — a deeply insightful look into the minds and lives of brilliant children.
1. Some of what we used to think about gifted kids turned out to be wrong.
Ever heard the saying “early to ripe, early to rot”? It basically means doing “too much” to foster a kid’s special talents and abilities at too young an age could actually cause harm in the long term.
That’s not even remotely true, at least not according to Lubinski.
That might be an outdated example. But Lubinksi says there are plenty of other misconceptions still alive today, like the idea that gifted kids are so smart that they’ll “find a way” to excel even if those smarts aren’t nurtured and developed.
Not so fast. “They’re kids,” he explains. “They need guidance. We all need guidance.”
2. Intelligence is not the same as passion.
Quick, what’s the “smartest” career you can think of. Doctor? Scientist?
While you do have to be pretty brilliant to work in medicine or science, those are far from the only career paths gifted kids choose later in life.
“Quantitatively, gifted people vary widely in their passions,” Lubinski says. Many of the students in the study did end up pursuing medicine, but others went into fields like economics or engineering. Others still were more gifted in areas like logical or verbal reasoning, making them excellent lawyers and writers.
“There are all kinds of ways to express intellectual talent,” Lubinski explains.
When it comes to doing what’s best for a gifted student, it’s just as important for parents and educators to know what the student is passionate about rather than pigeonholing them in traditionally “smart” fields and registering them in a bunch of STEM courses.
3. Hard work definitely still matters.
Measuring a student’s aptitude, their natural abilities, is only one part of the equation when it comes to determining how successful they’ll be in life. Aptitude scores can identify a particularly strong natural skill set but tell us very little about how hard that person might work to excel in that field.
Effort, Lubinski says, is a critical factor in determining how far someone’s going to go in life. “If you look at exceptional performers in politics, science, music, and literature, they’re working many, many hours,” he says.
(And for the record, there are a lot more important things in life than just career achievement, like family, friends, and overall happiness.)
4. Regardless of aptitude, every kid deserves to be treated as though they were gifted.
The study’s focus is specifically on kids within a certain range of intellectual ability, but Lubinski is careful to note that many of its findings can and should be applied to all students.
For example, the kids in the study who were given an opportunity to take more challenging courses that aligned with their skills and interests ultimately went on to accomplish more than the students who were not afforded the same opportunity.
“You have to find out where your child’s development is, how fast they learn, what are their strengths and relative weaknesses and tailor the curriculum accordingly,” Lubinski says. “It’s what you would want for all kids.”
It may sound a bit like a pipe dream, but it’s a great starting point for how we should be thinking about the future of education in America.
If you’d like to learn more about the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, check out this short film on the project created by Vanderbilt University:
Quick Learners; High Achievers: Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth
Damian Lillard etched his name further into the NBA record books on Sunday night, as he became the eighth player in league history to score 70 or more points in a game, as he poured in 71 on Houston in a 131-114 Blazers win at home.
Lillard had it going early and never relented against the young Rockets, piling up an outrageous 41 points in the first half, setting a new career-high for 24 minutes of action, drilling eight threes in the first two quarters.
He would add nine points in the third quarter to reach 50 going to the final frame, but Houston was hanging around, which proved to be a gift to all of us. There, in the fourth quarter, Lillard painted his masterpiece, helping keep Houston at arm’s reach as he buried bucket after bucket, starting with his 10th three of the game shortly after checking back in.
Dame checks back in and gets his 10th triple of the night! He’s up to 53 PTS
Later, he’d knock down his 11th three of the game and the most surprising highlight of his night, an and-1 dunk that had the Moda Center crowd losing its mind.
59 PTS
Damian Lillard with his 11th triple and the and-1 slam to extend the @trailblazers lead in the fourth!
Lillard’s final stat line read 71 points on 22-of-38 shooting, 13-of-22 from three-point range, with 6 rebounds and 6 assists, and with the Rockets cutting the lead down to single digits in the fourth, the Blazers needed most all of those before eventually running away with a comfortable win. He is now third on the NBA’s all-time list for 60-point games in a career with five, behind Kobe Bryant (6) and Wilt Chamberlain (32, lol).
It was an incredible night and one that Blazers fans will remember for a long time, as one of this era’s great scorers authored the best game of his career to date.
The Mavericks pulled off something no team had all season on Sunday against the Lakers, as they became the first to blow a 27-point lead, as all other teams were a combined 138-0 when taking a 27-point advantage this year.
It was a dreadful second half performance from Dallas, which is still trying to figure out how everything is supposed to work in the post-Kyrie Irving trade world. At times, the Irving and Luka Doncic pairing looks sensational, but when those two aren’t firing on all cylinders, the remaining roster issues can rear their ugly head as they did Sunday when Anthony Davis dominated the small Mavs frontcourt to lead the comeback bid.
What’s been almost as fascinating as the Mavs’ play on the court recently is the commentary of head coach Jason Kidd, who has outright said they’re not going to be very good defensively and will need to outscore teams to win most nights. However, after their fourth loss in five games, this time in rather historic fashion, Kidd shifted the blame almost completely to the guys in the locker room.
Jason Kidd looked me in the eye and said “I’m not the saviour here… I’m watching, I’m not playing, I’m watching just like you guys. Us as a team we have to mature… We have to grow up if we want to win a championship.” pic.twitter.com/8ka9VhYCHp
It’s not often you see a coach toss the whole team under the bus like this, but it’s also not exactly the first time Kidd’s chosen to go this route of calling out his team, as that was part of his “tough love” method in Milwaukee as well. The problem with that method is, of course, that it’s the coach’s job to get players to do play the right way, compete on the defensive end, and close out games, otherwise, there’d really be no reason to pay someone what Kidd makes to just sit and watch the game, as he put it.
Each week, we’ll recap the biggest moments of HBO’s The Last of Us before placing bets on the odds of survival for our favorite characters – like the sick, twisted, soulless monsters we are.
There’s a trend happening when it comes to love stories on HBO’s The Last of Us, and we can’t say that we like it. While Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett got their happy ending earlier in the season, in episode seven’s “Left Behind,” we get Ellie’s until-now murky backstory, and let’s just say that it’s devastating.
There are doomed romances and then there’s the Queer post-apocalyptic version of Romeo and Juliet with fungal zombies added in.
All this to say, please prepare yourself before hitting play (on the episode and this recap).
FEDRA Flashbacks
As cruel as it was to leave fans on a cliffhanger last week, the show doesn’t keep them dangling there for long. In fact, episode seven opens with an answer to the question on everyone’s minds: “Did Joel survive?” He did, but he’s not doing so hot, something that becomes apparent when the camera focuses on the bloody trail left behind after Ellie dragged him to an abandoned house before trying to tend to his stomach wound. He’s bleeding and convulsing and begging her to leave him to die when bouts of consciousness strike, a directive she almost follows. It’s only when Ellie goes to actually leave her gruff and grizzled guardian do we get a glimpse of how she’s become so hardened, so tough, and so walled off from the people around her.
Growing up in the FEDRA foster care system is all military drills at dawn and firearms training and things no child should be exposed to so young. The kids under FEDRA’s care are raised to become soldiers and when a cow is meant for slaughter, you don’t go naming them and treating them like a pet. Even in this unforgiving juvenile detention facility, Ellie is an outlier. She’s bullied by her peers – girls named Bethany deserve stitches, tbh — and punished severely (and often) when she steps out of line. She’s told it’s because she’s too smart for her own good – and maybe that’s true. She’s certainly disillusioned by the life intended for her and she’s grown restless from her lack of options. Still, even if she isn’t a FEDRA acolyte, she can understand the need for law enforcement in a place like the Boston QZ, and having a higher-ranking mentor who earnestly believes that chaos would reign down if FEDRA were to fail puts a healthy amount of fear in her.
Maybe the officer is right. Maybe things would go to hell without law and order. Or maybe he just knows that hypothesizing doomsday scenarios is enough to scare a rebellious teenager into complying with his rules. Either way, one thing is clear, FEDRA’s way of governing isn’t working for the regular civilians of Boston or the young recruits meant to carry out its orders which is why Riley (Storm Reid), Ellie’s only real friend in this hellhole, spilt a few weeks prior.
The runaway sneaks back into her old barracks to surprise her friend with a night on the town, one Ellie’s initially hesitant to accept. But even in the post-apocalypse, teenagers are going to teenage and teenage girls are going to want to hit the mall.
A Night Out
If you’ve been wondering just how f*cked up childhood would be were you to grow up in a fungal dystopia, the early adventures of Riley and Ellie’s girls’ night escapades are a good meter to judge against. After Riley admits to joining the Fireflies and Ellie berates her for being so idyllically stupid as to believe she could actually make a difference, the pair squash any talk of revolution by running rooftops and avoiding FEDRA patrols and giggling like schoolgirls when they pilfer a liquor bottle from a corpse. It’s not the first dead body they’ve seen, but it’s still a macabre moment that illustrates the differences between someone like Riley – who had parents and watched them die – and Ellie, who’s only ever known the life FEDRA has given her.
Talk will inevitably return to those “fascist dickbags” but not before Riley introduces Ellie to the four five wonders of the Mall – a sealed-off underground mecca with enough working electricity to leave the girls rightfully in awe. Bella Ramsey has been terrific all season but she gives a masterclass in acting here, successfully convincing us that escalators are an invention of divine ingenuity and carousels aren’t creepy spinning wheels of death but instead, magical modes of romantic escapism. Even their disappointing photo booth shoot seems cute. The girls have what is possibly the most swoon-worthy time at a mall that we’ve ever seen. (It sure beats the awkward “hangouts” over shared greasy pretzels of our own youth.) But nothing this sweet and innocent lasts forever. Ellie eventually discovers that Riley has been posted here by the Fireflies to watch over their stash of homemade bombs – bombs that have been blowing up FEDRA officers which is what she’s training to become. Riley tries to make her understand why she made the choice to join the cause. Unlike Ellie, she was due to graduate from FEDRA’s program soon and her assignment was going to be sewer duty. She was trapped, doomed to do grunt work for the rest of her miserable life.
What’s worse, she wasn’t wanted. She had nowhere she belonged until Marlene saw value in her and invited her to join the Fireflies. For someone who had a family and remembers losing them, that recognition and acceptance are more important than any kind of liberation movement.
Ellie nearly abandons her friend, especially when Riley reveals she’s been assigned to the group leaving Boston for Atlanta, but eventually turns back, meeting Riley in a Halloween shop where things take a horrifying turn.
We Keep Going
Anytime a show like The Last of Us treats fans to moments of genuine happiness amidst the backdrop of terrible circumstances, don’t trust it. Be especially on guard if those moments include the following: dancing (of any kind), slow-mo shots of characters smiling, laughing, or generally enjoying themselves, music that evokes a sense of nostalgia, a spontaneous kiss between two characters who have been actively ignoring their chemistry over the course of the entire episode, a declaration of love, a feeling like maybe, just maybe, this one will have a happy ending.
Happy endings do not exist on shows like The Last of Us, and though Ellie and Riley eventually admit their feelings for each other with both girls promising to stay together and figure things out, their ride off into the sunset is quickly ruined by a clicker who’s been lurking in the background the entire episode. The girls try to fight him off with Ellie eventually lodging her picket knife in its skull, but not before it takes a chunk out of both her and Riley’s arms. Their realization that they’ve been marked for death is heartbreaking and completely different. Ellie rages against it while Riley tearfully and quietly resigns herself to it. Each performance is devastating and we dare anyone to say this love story isn’t as impactful or memorable as the one Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett gave us a few episodes back.
We never see what happens to Riley – though we can guess – because that final memory quickly fades back into the present where Ellie decides that she’s not going to leave Joel to die. She’s going to hold his hand just like she did Riley’s and fight for him in a way she couldn’t for the girl that she loved. Joel’s fate is still left in the air by the end of the episode but there’s a sense of determination and focus about Ellie that wasn’t there before, one that makes us think not saving him is an impossibility at this point.
Survival Odds
Ellie (10 to 1 odds)
Ellie has evolved from a smart-mouth wayward runaway to a bonafide survivor over the course of this show and the skills she’s learned from Joel and the other adults in her life are finally paying off. Not only did she drag her guardian’s blood-drained carcass to safety, but she also managed to find something sharp to sew up the hole in his stomach with, and she kept her cool while doing it. She’s could’ve left Joel as he asked, but she toughed it out and made a choice to stand by her friend. No notes.
Joel (6 to 1 odds)
They’re gonna kill Pedro Pascal, aren’t they?
HBO’s ‘The Last Of Us’ airs Sundays at 9:00pm EST.
[This post contains potential spoilers for future episodes of The Last of Us]
Earlier this season on The Last of Us, Ellie cracked a code that Joel set up with Bill and Frank (RIP). “The radio’s a smuggling code, right? ’60s songs, we don’t have anything new, ’70s they’ve got new stuff. What’s ’80s?” she asked before tricking Joel into the answer. “Gotcha. ’80s means trouble,” she grinned. “Code broken.” Depeche Mode’s “Never Let Me Down Again” meant trouble on the radio, but during episode seven, another ’80s classic soundtracks Ellie and Riley’s visit to the mall that’s full of joy — and then things turn tragic.
As Riley shows Ellie the full capitalist wonders of the Boston QZ mall, “Take on Me” by a-Ha begins playing. A tingle of recognition was felt down the spines of every The Last of Us viewer who also played The Last of Us Part II video game; the song holds special significance to Ellie and a character who may have been introduced last episode (and through an acoustic guitar, Joel).
I won’t spoil the moment, but you can watch it here.
Interestingly, “Take on Me” — which connects Riley and a future important person in Ellie’s life — played during the first trailer for the show, but it’s since been removed. “HBO re-edited The Last of Us official trailer to remove a-ha’s ‘Take On Me,’ replacing it with generic background music,” The Direct reported. “As a result of this change, some fans have voiced their disapproval on Twitter, noting that the trailer got worse after the removal.”
Those same fans were conflicted upon hearing the song in “Left Behind.”
When the Atlanta Hawks announced they had fired Nate McMillan after two-plus seasons as head coach, the timing signified they already had someone in mind. It turned out that was indeed the case, as it didn’t take long for reports to tie them to Quin Snyder, formerly the head coach of the Jazz and an assistant for a year in Atlanta under Mike Budenholzer.
Over the weekend, talks became serious and Snyder was widely expected to be named head coach sooner than later. On Sunday, we got word from Adrian Wojnarowski that the Hawks are hiring Snyder on a 5-year deal, including this year, where he will coach out the season as a rare in-season coaching hire from the outside. Snyder could take over the Hawks, who have won back-to-back games under interim Joe Prunty, as soon as Tuesday when they host the Wizards.
ESPN Sources: Quin Snyder has reached agreement on a five-year deal — including the rest of this season — to become coach of the Atlanta Hawks. Snyder is expected to be on sidelines as soon as Tuesday vs. Washington. pic.twitter.com/ZYLx7y4v9V
Snyder’s track record in Utah speaks for itself, as he helped turn the Jazz into a perennial West contender — albeit one that fell short of expectations at times in the postseason — and he is widely respected around the league for both his work as a tactician and in navigating player relationships. The Hawks are in need of his expertise in the latter tremendously, as there have been numerous reports of some internal discord this season, and Snyder’s work with Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert proved he could keep a locker room together even when tensions were high.
Whether that can pay immediate dividends or not with the roster as constructed remains to be seen, but the Hawks are hoping for a similar bump to the last time they fired a coach in-season and made a run to the East Finals under McMillan. That task seems much more difficult given the strength at the top of the East this season, but improving on last year’s performance where they were not particularly competitive with Miami in a five-game exit in the first round would at least be a start.
The Dallas Mavericks looked like they were going to cruise to a win in the first half of ABC’s doubleheader on Sunday, as Luka Doncic and company seemingly could not miss in the early going, hitting 10 of their first 17 threes while the Lakers started 0-of-14 from beyond the arc.
The Mavs led by as many as 27 in the second quarter, and the good vibes of the new-look Lakers were suddenly getting a major test. However, they began chipping away at the deficit, cutting it to 14 at halftime and all the way down to three going into the fourth quarter, thanks to a 12-0 run in the third.
A 12-0 run from the @Lakers helps them cut into the Dallas lead!
Leading the way in the comeback on both ends of the floor was Anthony Davis, who started quietly but eventually began to dominate the small Mavs frontline. Davis would finish the afternoon with 30 points, 15 rebounds, four assists, three blocks, and one steal, and served as the catalyst for the Lakers down the stretch, doing a bit of everything to push the Lakers in front.
Late in the fourth, after Dallas had regained the lead by one on Kyrie Irving free throws, it was Davis who secured a big offensive rebound in traffic and threw down a big dunk to push the Lakers back in front for good.
He followed that up with another big bucket in the final 30 seconds as the Mavs had cut the deficit to one but ended up with Doncic on a switch on Davis, who took him into the post and drilled a fadeaway to push the lead back up to three.
The 27-point comeback was the biggest in the NBA this season, as teams were 138-0 entering Sunday when holding a 27-point lead at any point in a game. The Lakers became the team to change that in a game that is critical for their push for the postseason, as they pull to within a game of New Orleans in 10th and are just 2.5 back of Dallas in sixth.
Given how passive Davis has been at times this season, battling through injuries again, seeing him take the lead in a game where he was the biggest mismatch on the floor is a big deal for the Lakers. That isn’t always the case, but on this night he made the Mavs pay for a small frontcourt and no one capable of defending him or keeping him off the boards. Three other Lakers joined Davis in double figures, as LeBron James finished with 26 points, Dennis Schröder added 16, and Jarred Vanderbilt scored 15 and pulled in 17 rebounds as he continues to prove a big addition for the Lakers on both ends of the floor.
After their scorching start, the Mavs came back to earth a bit, shooting 40.8 percent from three on the game (10-of-32 to close). Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving likewise struggled to keep it going in the second half, combining for 47 points but needing 44 combined shots to get there, while the rest of the Mavs starters scored six points each. For a team that’s admittedly skewed towards the offensive end, that’s not getting it done and their cushion for a guaranteed playoff position gets considerably narrower, as they fall to just a game-up on the three-way tie behind them for seventh.
Few are as thin-skinned as Donald Trump, and his history of being mad at comics who belittle him is well-documented. Or so people thought. As per Rolling Stone, this one’s new: In the early days of his presidency, Trump was so steamed that Jimmy Kimmel kept mocking him on his late night show that he pressured the White House to go after him.
As per the report, Trump directed his staff to call up Disney’s top execs to “complain and demand action.” There were at least two separate calls, which occurred towards the end of his first year in office, where they saw if they could get Kimmel to tone down his rhetoric.
What made Kimmel worse than, say, Stephen Colbert? It’s unclear. (And maybe he demanded staffers ring up Paramount Global, which owns CBS.) But as per Rolling Stone, “Trump felt that Kimmel had, in the characterization of one former senior administration official, been ‘very dishonest and doing things that [Trump] would have once sued over.’”
And so staffers, who allegedly didn’t think calling up Disney to complain about jokes would do anything, were forced to repeatedly do so anyway. “It was doing something, mostly, to say to [Trump], ‘Hey, we did this,’” one staffer told Rolling Stone.
Clearly it didn’t work. As per the report, Disney execs were more confused than worried. Spoiler: Kimmel did not tone it down and remains on the air, whereas Trump eventually lost re-election.
Kimmel did have to fight to keep his Trump jokes on air. Last year it was revealed the late night host threatened to quit if he couldn’t keep doing what he still does to this day, such as when he dragged him for not liking Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show.
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