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Hollywood’s star power couldn’t sway the election—are they now left speechless?

It’s been a week since Donald Trump’s stunning victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, and the silence from Hollywood’s most vocal stars has been deafening.

Before the election, the usual celebrity suspects—Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez, George Clooney, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Leonardo DiCaprio—were out in full force, urging their legions of fans to vote for Harris.

These celebrities, whose collective social media following surpasses a billion, thought their influence could tip the scales in Harris’s favor. However, when the votes were counted, not only did Trump win the Electoral College, but he also secured a clear majority of the popular vote.

As Christian Dugan Ramirez reported for Fox News, PR expert Doug Eldridge suggested that this silence is strategic—a way for celebrities to avoid alienating their fans.

“Had it been closer, you might be hearing more fervent rebukes and calls to ‘resist’ from the celebrity class,” Eldridge explained.

But Trump didn’t just squeak by; he won convincingly. This time, celebrities face a harsh reality: a billion followers doesn’t translate into political power at the ballot box.

The Celebrity Ego Bruise

Think about it.

These people are used to being adored, worshipped, and even idolized. When they post on Instagram or X (formerly known as Twitter), their fans flood their feeds with likes, comments, and shares.

They’ve been convinced by the echo chambers of Hollywood and social media that they’re more than just entertainers; they’re thought leaders who can shape public opinion.

So, imagine the blow to their egos when their fans—who they thought were hanging on to their every word—ignored them in the voting booth.

For stars like Taylor Swift and Beyoncé, who can sell out stadiums in minutes and whose social media posts can reach hundreds of millions, it must be humiliating to realize that all that influence means nothing when persuading Americans to vote their way.

The Bubble They Can’t Escape

It’s clear that many celebrities live in a bubble, surrounded by sycophants who reinforce their worldview. When they endorsed Harris, they believed they were speaking for “the people.” But the reality is that they were talking to their own narrow circles of influence.

The election results showed that celebrities may dominate the cultural conversation but are increasingly out of touch with everyday Americans. They were forced to face an uncomfortable truth: they do not wield the power they think they do.

While celebrities like Roseanne Barr and Rob Schneider have been unapologetically vocal in their support for Trump, the Hollywood elite are hiding behind their PR teams, hoping that fans will forget their failed endorsements.

The irony is palpable. The same stars who lectured us about bravery, courage, and standing up for what’s right are now nowhere to be found.

Lessons Learned?

Perhaps Hollywood will learn a lesson from this election: having millions of followers doesn’t mean you have millions of loyal voters. Americans don’t want to be lectured by people who are insulated from the consequences of the policies they advocate.

They want leaders who understand their hardships, not celebrities living in million-dollar mansions.

So, as celebrities like Oprah, Beyoncé, and Taylor Swift remain as mum as a silent movie, maybe it’s time they recognized that their fans admire their talent, not their politics.

As this election has shown, the American people—not Hollywood’s elite—ultimately decide the future of this nation.

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In order to have a fully functioning society, we must have some common baseline of beliefs that join us together, whether it’s a fraternity, a church, or a political party. Without this commonality, belonging to a group or a society is impossible.

We hold these trues to be self-evident: the Earth is round, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, Barack Obama is the president of the United States, and if you are born with a penis you are a male. If you are born with a vagina you are a female.

Oh-oh! These last two are going to get me in trouble. Now I will be called homophobic, hateful, un-Christian, a divider, not fit for public service, unfit for management in corporate America, etc., but the question is, “Why?”

In God’s senility, he has become so old and feeble that he is making a lot of mistakes. He is mistakenly putting penises on girls and vaginas on boys. As the philosopher Protagoras argued, “Man has become the measure of all things.” This was the essence of the philosophy called relativism.

Many Christians and conservatives have willingly bowed at the altar of political correctness for political gain. Why do we feel the need to apologize for not wanting a man going to same bathroom as our 14 year-old daughter? Why do we feel the need to apologize for not wanting a woman going to the same bathroom as our 16 year-old son?

Spineless corporate America has never shown in any principles when it has come to issues of right and wrong. They respond only to profit and liberal orthodoxy. Why would a business oppose legislation describing those born with a penis as male and those born with a vagina as female?

These orbiters of “moral hypocrisy” have come out of the closet, literally, against the state of North Carolina because their governor, Pat McCrory, recently signed legislation codifying the biological principle of male and female.

How this bill, HB2, is being described as hateful and discriminatory is baffling to me. Singer Bruce Springsteen has made this his cause célèbre by cancelling his upcoming concert in Greensboro, North Carolina. Bruce seemed to have gotten laryngitis when it came to the lack of any Black actor nominees for the past two years for the Academy Awards, but I digress.

If the corporate community showed the same amount of outrage over the “real” discrimination towards the Black community, we would have more Blacks in the executive suites and on their corporate boards.

According to 2013 research by Richard L. Zweigenhaft of Guilford College, the board of directors of Fortune 500 companies are 87.2 percent White (about 75 percent male), 6.8 percent Black (5.3 percent male), 3.1 percent Latino (2.4 percent male), and 2.4 percent Asian (2 percent male).

Now let’s look at sports.

Based on 2013 research from Richard Lapchick, director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida, 19 percent of NBA players are White, but 98 percent of majority owners and 64 percent of the league office staff is White. In comparison, Blacks account for 76 percent of NBA players, and roughly 2 percent of majority owners and 18 percent of league office staff. In the NFL, Whites account for 30 percent of the players and 97 percent of majority owners. Even though 66 percent of NFL players are Black, not a single majority owner in the NFL is African American. When it comes to diversity in ownership, coaching positions and league office staff in the NBA and the NFL, Hispanics and Asians often fare worse.

Blacks account for 13.2 percent of the U.S. population, Hispanics make up 17.4 percent of the population and Asians account for 5.4 percent of the population. Homosexuals are estimated to be 3 percent of the U.S. population, but corporations are more aggressively seeking diversity based on sexual preferences than other measures of diversity.

Based on the above numbers, corporations, the NBA and the NFL should focus more on the lack of diversity among Blacks and Latinos on their corporate boards and the ownership and management of professional sporting teams;, not on this radical leftist agenda to allow confused people to go into bathrooms with people of the opposite sex.

The homosexual community has done a masterful job at the old art of bait and switch. They have portrayed their issue as one of equality, but their real goal is to obtain “legal status” as a protected class in order to get their radical agenda codified into law. All this other stuff is simply background noise.

Isn’t it amazing that former homosexual football player, Michael Sam, recently told Attitude Magazine, “It’s terrible. You want to be accepted by other people, but you don’t even accept someone just because of the color of their skin? I just don’t understand that at all. How are you saying that, “oh, I want people to accept me because I’m gay, but I don’t accept you because you’re Black or because you’re White or because you’re Asian.”

But yet, the corporate community throws millions of dollars at the white homosexual community despite their well-known discrimination of Black homosexuals. Can someone please reconcile this fact for me?

These same corporations that are criticizing HB2 in North Carolina are actively doing and pursuing business in countries that are the most repressive in the world in their treatment of homosexuals.

The NBA plays several exhibition games in China and spends millions of dollars advertising in this country. Google, PayPal, Facebook, Delta Airlines, Hilton Hotels, and Coca-Cola do millions of dollars of business in Saudi Arabia, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc.

So, if they are so concerned about the treatment of homosexuals, why do they do business in these repressive countries?

This has nothing to do with equality and everything to do with the politics. Homosexuals don’t deserve special treatment based on their sexual preferences, but they do deserve equal treatment based on their humanity.

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EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in Black Press USA.

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