Justine Bateman said this week that the cancel culture connected to President Donald Trump‘s 2016 victory and beyond has become “fucking unbearable.”
“I don’t remember a time in my career where there was an absence of criticism of me,” Bateman told Megyn Kelly during a pre-recorded interview that will appear on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show on Thursday. “There’s always been somebody, at least one person, and I say that sarcastically, like more than one person, who’s got a problem with me or something about my presence pushes their buttons or they don’t like that I haven’t done anything to my face.”
Bateman is a well-known supporter of Trump, and frequently speaks out against those in Hollywood who criticize her for expressing her conservative views. In November, after Trump’s recent victory, she wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that she was “decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.”
To Kelly, she elaborated on the statement, saying she was glad the election ended “that mob mentality momentum” because “the last eight years, and most acutely last four years, were fucking unbearable. Unbearable. I never want to go through anything like that again in my life. I truly don’t. It was the most un-American situation I’ve ever been in. And I’m 58.”
After Kelly agreed with the Family Ties actress, Bateman continued: “To say that people can’t say, can’t ask questions, can’t say what they think, can’t ask that there be some research on this or that. It was absolutely awful. It was just like revenge of the hall monitors. It was the fucking Debbie Downers, the Party Poopers.”
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