Trump Decries Debra Messing’s ‘McCarthyism’ … While Calling on NBC to Fire Her

Colby HallSep 5th, 2019, 9:32 am
 

President Donald Trump seemed to exhibit a bit of the “do as I say, not as I” strategy, in a strange combination of tweets that at once called out actress Debra Messing for McCarthyism, and then suggested that she should be fired over her comments.

Following news of an upcoming Hollywood fundraiser to support Trump, Messing publicly demanded a list of attendees so that the anti-Trump entertainment industry knew who to avoid working with. The Will & Grace actress drew the president’s ire, and also got called out by traditionally political spectrum opposites including Fox & Friends and The View hosts. Joy Behar expressed her disagreement with listing individual contributors, and Whoopi Goldberg followed suit.

Trump insulted “bad ‘actress’ Debra The Mess Messing”  by noting she is in “hot water” for creating a “blacklist” of Trump supporters, which he deemed “McCarthyism.” Joe McCarthy created his own blacklist decades ago for privately naming members of the entertainment industry who were also members of the Communist Party, much of which were false allegations.

Trump tweeted:

The idea of McCarthyism is to keep people from working due to ideological differences. So Trump calling on NBC to fire Messing over her ideological difference is the very example of the thing he is criticizing Messing for.

Again, “do as I say, not as I do” or “the best defense is a good offense.”

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Colby Hall is the Founding Editor of Mediaite.com. He is also a Peabody Award-winning television producer of non-fiction narrative programming as well as a terrific dancer and preparer of grilled meats.