Actor-comedian Jim Gaffigan admits to alienating some fans with his criticism of Donald Trump on social media but stands by his words.
Actor-comedian Jim Gaffigan has admitted that he alienated some fans for repeatedly attacking President-elect Donald Trump on social media for years, but added “I don’t regret it.” He said, “I regret that people think that I was criticizing people that support Trump. And that was never the intention. I regret— someone said like, now I can’t follow you anymore and I kind of said ‘F you’ to them,” the comedian said.
He later added: “I don’t regret it, but I also do acknowledge that there are true die-hard Trump fans who probably enjoyed my comedy, but because they feel so passionately will never forgive me.”\Gaffigan said he saw comments on social media, and there are still some. He said his 18-year-old son commented, ‘I liked him until he went on his Trump rant.’”following the Republican National Convention. The comedian fired off more than 15 five-alarm tweets in which he railed against the commander in chief as a “con man” and “rapist.” “To those of you who think Im destroying my career wake up. if trump gets elected, the economy will never come back,” he said in the epic tweetstorm. \In the Daily Beast interview, Gaffigan also spoke about the criticism from the left that he received for his recent appearance at the Al Smith Dinner in New York for the Catholic church. Trump attended the October event but Kamala Harris declined. “I was ‘normalizing a fascist,’ right? I knew going into it that I was going to get criticism from both sides. I’m not a roast comedian. I mean, I love politics, but I just don’t talk about it,” Gaffigan said. “So I knew that if I did jokes about either side that there was going to be some blowback. But I also thought it was worth it.
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