Scott Baio I Dont Give a Shit if I Ever Work Again

In the wake of Donald Trump's failure to denounce neo-Nazis in Charlottesville rapidly or sternly enough to satisfy his detractors, Hollywood has become a no-go zone for supporters of the president. "Don't believe it? Attempt wearing a 'Brand America Great Over again' baseball game cap on a film shoot," quips one person who works in the manufacture.

THR reached out to more than l members of Friends of Abe — a private group whose membership is fabricated upward of conservatives working in Hollywood — to gauge their support, or lack thereof, for the president. Ninety percentage refused to speak on the record. "Too hot. No way," said 1 filmmaker. "No upside," said another. Asked 1 thespian, "Are you trying to get me killed?" Another said, "I'm staying away from politics for the foreseeable future."

Actor Scott Baio has no such hesitation. "I don't give a shit most Hollywood liberals," he tells THR . "They're gonna hate the guy no matter what. If he cured cancer, they'd exist on him for putting oncologists out of business." Baio, who became arguably entertainment's highest-profile Trump supporter after speaking on his behalf at the Republican National Convention, says his support hasn't waned and that everyone in his circle of acquaintances feels the same way, all the more than and so since Charlottesville — largely considering of what they come across as relentless attacks coming from late-night hosts, stars and the press.

"All this does is help Trump considering people have had it. Conservatives in Hollywood accept had it," he says. "We know who Trump is, and we don't believe the propaganda, and I don't think nigh of the land does, either. The media is almost irrelevant. It'southward anticipated and boring. I want the man to get his calendar through, and everything else is a sideshow."

Trump supporters in Hollywood "uniformly believe he is being attacked from all sides and that his quotes are existence taken out of context," says producer Frank DeMartini, who'south considering a run at unseating California Congresswoman Maxine Waters. "I've heard no ane at all lose organized religion."

The controversy in Charlottesville, where a adult female was killed past an declared white supremacist, went into overdrive later Trump condemned both sides — alt-left and alt-right — and Hollywood was incensed. "Equating neo-Nazis to those protecting civil rights is disgraceful & crazy," tweeted Barbra Streisand. Americans "shouldn't have to shame or pressure the president into saying Nazis are bad," Seth Meyers said on TV. And that'due south simply scratching the surface on the amount of outrage.

ButJustified actor Nick Searcy says many of his left-leaning colleagues in Hollywood are playing fast and loose with the president's words. "Trump didn't say some nice people were Nazis; he said there are some overnice people who don't want monuments torn downwards. This movement to erase the history of the Democrats' support for the Confederacy and the KKK is ridiculous."

Searcy says his ain political opponents often take him out of context, and then he knows what it's similar for Trump. "I'll say the communist 'Antifa' is bad, and they'll twist it to say, 'Nick Searcy defended Nazis.' They're so self-righteous," he says. "It'southward not that they disagree, it's that they're better people. They're not better than me because they voted for Hillary Clinton."

Searcy says he's not certain whether he's already lost work because of his politics, since no one alerts him when he's eliminated from casting decisions. "Information technology's never been rubber to declare you're not a Democrat," he explains before joking: "If you lot apply my quotes, yous're going to take to support me — I mean by sending me coin!"

That the president'due south support has actually (mostly silently) increased since Charlottesville was a theme amidst Hollywood conservatives. "It has grown as the unhinged nature of the left has become desperate and hysterical," says Evan Sayet, a erstwhile author on Politically Incorrect who has helped write speeches for Trump.

"Compare the media coverage of Charlottesville to when President Obama failed to condemn terrorists," says Sayet. "I even think Obama trying to cover up for Islamic terror by dubbing the murders in Ft. Hood nothing more than 'workplace violence.'"

Mell Flynn, an actress who was a Trump delegate at the Republican convention, says the president has more supporters in Hollywood than many realize. "Hollywood conservatives are very hesitant to speak out in support of Trump considering they fear that they will never work once more," she says. "In that location's a lot of truth to that."

She adds: "1 producer told me Trump was right to telephone call out the leftists who attacked the white supremacists since the latter had a permit and the former did not, but if he says this out loud, he'd never work again." [Note: Trump's merits that counterprotesters didn't have a permit was rated "pants of fire" by Politifact, who published a copy of the permit.]

Baio is undeterred. "I don't give a shit if I always work once more," he says. "My land comes beginning. I guess I'thou but an old, angry, successful white guy who stole everything he has from someone else."

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Haim Saban on Trump: "He's Not an Anti-Semite"

"I disagree with the president with what appears to be a moral equivalence existence fatigued between the Nazis, who are shouting, 'Kill the Jews,' and the protesters who came to counter that statement," says Haim Saban, the billionaire Univision chairman and Clinton backer. However, "I do not believe that President Trump is a Nazi or anti-Semite." Black Lives Affair, meanwhile, "is clearly an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel grouping," he tells THR, citing BLM's official platform that calls State of israel "an apartheid land" responsible for "genocide." — Tatiana Siegel

This story first appeared in the Aug. 23 outcome of The Hollywood Reporter mag. To receive the mag, click hither to subscribe.

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