“Transparent” creator Jill Soloway speaking to reporters backstage compared Trump to Hitler saying, “the most risky monster to ever approach our life time”.
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The Emmys were a time to celebrate diversity on television – but many celebrities also utilized the awards show as a forum to bash Donald Trump. She said, “Any moment that I have to call Trump out for being an heir to Hitler, I will”. The topic came because the second season of “Transparent” features the Pfefferman family in Berlin during the rise of the Nazis in Germany, according to Vulture.
“Holy crap!” she said as she stepped up to the microphone.
Adding to its slew of Emmy awards in 2015, the cult fantasy TV series Game of Thrones on Sunday took 12 awards in 24 categories. “I get to make my dreams come true”.
She went on to describe him as: “the most unsafe monster to ever approach our lifetime”. He blames Muslim and Mexicans for our problems. We found out! Um, so I want to thank you, my sweet Jeff Bezos, because you changed the world, and you invited me to do this thing that these people call television, but I call a revolution. He makes fun of disabled people. Right now Donald Trump is doing the same thing.
Soloway concluded: “It has been used in our history before to start and win wars”. Backstage, Soloway called the Holocaust-related storyline “incredible” timely given our current political climate.
“Thanks to Mark Burnett, we don’t have to watch reality shows anymore”, Kimmel said. In her speech, Cox echoed Tambor’s thoughts (if we can find the video we’ll post it) about trans actors.
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David Mandel, who serves as executive producer on the HBO program, said it’s hard to write comedy these days-because the truth is stranger than fiction. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton tweeted congratulations to out lesbian Kate McKinnon for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on Saturday Night Live, which includes playing Clinton.
