We’ll take “Anti-MAGA Celebrities” for $200, Ken.
On Wednesday, Ken Jennings obtained fairly spicy — at the very least by “Jeopardy!” requirements — when he printed a post on Bluesky that very clearly expressed his emotions about President Donald Trump’s “regime.”
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The sport present host’s candid take got here amid a reposting spree wherein he shared a number of posts that condemned the Division of Homeland Safety after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot and killed 37-year-old Minneapolis mom Renee Good that very same day. DHS has characterised Good as one of several “violent rioters” who had been blocking ICE officers throughout a focused operation, and that she “weaponized her car” in an try and run over an officer. Videos of the incident, nevertheless, point out that Good was attempting to reverse her automobile and flee the scene when an officer shot at her a number of instances.
“The ‘prosecute the previous regime at each degree’ candidate has my vote in 2028,” Jennings wrote.
Earlier within the day, Jennings additionally printed: “America is at all times like ‘okay however the NEXT regime change will work,’ like after I ‘lower out carbs’ briefly each January.”
Jennings additionally shared a number of different posts that implied that the ICE capturing was his tipping level.
Nestled between each Jennings’ scorching takes on his Bluesky account is a post by writer Kashana Cauley that reads, “They spent all that point complaining about crime in cities so they might implement their resolution of killing folks in cities.”
Different posts Jennings shared on Wednesday embrace one posted by Bloomberg’s Daniel Nichanian, which included a quote about Good from her mother. One other repost contains a screenshot of a Minnesota Star Tribune article about native baby care facilities reporting that ICE brokers had been displaying up at their services.
And though Jennings made his anti-Trump stance obvious, he additionally made his dislike for doom-and-gloom takes about the way forward for the U.S. clear as effectively.
On Wednesday, Jennings additionally shared one Bluesky user’s response to his post about whom he intends to vote for in 2028.
The person’s response was: “If there’s even an election in 2028.”
Jennings reacted to this sort of take as “tactically flawed.”
“‘No level discussing political opposition to fascism, there received’t be elections anyway’ cedes victory to your enemies. It’s defeatism and nihilism,” he said.
He added: “It’s completely comprehensible for those who’re dooming about any side of the American experiment proper now. So your emotions are ‘legitimate’ within the sense that they signify actual nervousness, and I get that. However to vent that nervousness in different folks’s areas is flawed…”
Jennings making his left-leaning ideology abundantly clear on-line could come as a shock to some, however the former “Jeopardy!” champ has a historical past of sharing his liberal stances on social media.
He’s expressed his support for progressive lawmakers like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). He also mocked an “awful MAGA grandma” on X, when it was Twitter, in 2018.
After former host Alex Trebek died in November 2020 — and Jennings’ identify started to be thrown round as a candidate for the subsequent host — Jennings attempted to apologize for a few of his “unartful and insensitive” tweets he printed over time.
Since officially getting the hosting gig in 2022, Jennings has been a lot quieter about politics on social media, however, contemplating that he shared another anti-Trump post on Bluesky Thursday, this may simply signify that he simply doesn’t give a rattling about being bipartisan anymore.
