It’s the end of the world as we know it. Just when lefty celebrities thought the world couldn’t get any worse, President Donald Trump stabbed Mother Earth in the heart.
On March 28, Trump rolled back the Obama Administration’s suite of oppressive environmental regulations. In addition to eliminating “federal overreach,” the president announced that the rollback would "start a new era of production and job creation." But in Hollywood, there was wailing and gnashing of teeth. Celebrities lost it on Twitter, condemning the move as “plain evil.”
“There are no 2 sides to this issue,” wrote Beauty and the Beast actor Josh Gad. “This is so disturbing 4 anyone who inhabits this planet. Unless u r an oil exec today, u should be sick.”
Actress Bette Midler denounced the executive order as “short-sighted, dim witted and PLAIN EVIL.” Celebrity environmentalist and anti-fracking activist Mark Ruffalo agreed, citing a study by Energy Innovation predicting that the rollback would result in 120,000 deaths per year.
Filmmaker Michael Moore could have been standing on a street corner wearing a placard “The End is Nigh,” when he tweeted to nearly 4.4. million people: “Historians in the near future will mark today, March 28, 2017, as the day the extinction of human life on earth began, thanks 2 Donald Trump.”
Early the next day, Moore posted an uncaptioned photograph of a gloomy graveyard.
Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane used a similarly grim visual, tweeting the picture of a dry and shriveled earth surrounded by the words, “There are no jobs on a dead planet.”
Some used the opportunity to suggest the president’s ouster.
“He is so old and out of touch,” Grey’s Anatomy actress Ellen Pompeo tweeted. “Really time to put him out to pasture.” A couple hours later, she urged: “#impeachthedinosaur.”
