Ariana Grande—who’s Italian-American—discovered herself in the midst of one other weird MAGA race assault.
Gina Loudon, host of far-right cable community Actual America’s Voice, referred to as the pop star “obviously” Hispanic in a failed try to show Hollywood was attacking white individuals within the extremely anticipated launch of “Wicked.”
“I should have known, it’s ‘Holly-weird,’” Loudon started.
“I should have known they’d try to make it ‘woke’ in the ways that they could think of. Let’s just start with the fact that they have Ariana Grande, who is obviously a Hispanic woman, playing the part of a ditzy, blonde, white… really villain when it comes right down to it.”
Loudon, who was a member of the 2020 Donald Trump marketing campaign’s media advisory board, additionally blasted the movie for “racism” and “racial appropriation,” explaining that it was “offensive” for the filmmakers to make a villain a “ditzy, blonde, white” girl.
Each day Kos reached out to Grande’s representatives for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.
Social media customers have been fast to note the inaccuracy in Loudon’s bizarre accusations, with one Bluesky consumer calling the MAGA pundit “confidently stupid” for her remarks.
One other consumer mentioned Loudon’s statements have been “totally ignorant,” including that her racism claims have been “reminiscent of the last regime”—referring to the bias usually expressed by Trump cronies throughout his first time period in workplace.
It’s potential that the outspoken MAGA supporter nonetheless holds a grudge in opposition to the pop star for her vocalized assist for Kamala Harris following the election.
“Holding the hand of every person who is feeling the immeasurable heaviness of this outcome today,” Grande wrote through her Instagram Story earlier this month alongside a slew of hyperlinks for LGBTQ+ assets.
Grande additionally has a historical past of exhibiting assist for the transgender neighborhood, donating upwards of $1.5 million to organizations in 2022 to assist transgender youth.
As for Loudon, her “othering” of somebody based mostly on race to unfold hatred is harking back to Trump’s rhetoric on the marketing campaign path when the felon-elect insisted that multiracial Harris was solely “of Indian heritage.”
In entrance of the Nationwide Affiliation for Black Journalists, Trump mentioned he “didn’t know [Harris] was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black.”
