Emmy-winning actress Drea de Matteo informed Donald Trump Jr. in a podcast interview that many distinguished celebrities like herself are in opposition to Biden’s agenda however are afraid to talk out.
De Matteo, who rose to fame in HBO’s “The Sopranos,” spoke with former President Trump’s son on a latest episode of his “Triggered” podcast.
De Matteo has a historical past of slamming cancel tradition, even beginning a streetwear model referred to as “Ultrafree” that helps “promote free speech.”
De Matteo spoke about how she has modified her opinions on sure points similar to unlawful immigration, and that whereas she beforehand voted for Biden based mostly on sympathy for unlawful immigrants, the chaos at the border has modified her thoughts.
After displaying off a cap from her buddies’ firm, Sloppy Tease, that learn “Shut the border you moron,” they mentioned the mass unlawful immigration of able-bodied, fighting-age males. “I simply don’t know that they’re right here to help the American individuals,” de Matteo mentioned.
Trump Jr. famous that he had met a few of de Matteo’s former co-stars in New York and instructed, “I don’t really feel like a number of these guys had been leftist liberals,” but even so, he didn’t wish to out them as non-liberals till they needed to come back ahead themselves.
He then requested de Matteo if she had observed different Hollywood actors additionally query trendy leftist coverage, however who don’t fairly “have the center to do what you’re doing.”
Whereas de Matteo nonetheless considers herself a liberal in a sure sense, she mentioned she has been in opposition to trendy far-left tendencies for a very long time, even when she has been open about it solely lately. “I actually did wish to combat, however I didn’t assume I had, A, the voice, B, the balls,” however mentioned every little thing modified as soon as she “obtained thrown to the wolves.”
She added, “And as soon as I used to be on the market, I used to be like, ‘I’m out right here, what am I going to do? I’m out of my cage.’ Like, I’ll as nicely simply, you realize, do what I obtained to do.”
After noting she has been supported by her boyfriend, God, and her kids, she mentioned, “they imagine in what we imagine in, which is freedom and unity the best method, not unity the best way this administration was making an attempt to push. That was bulls—t.”
She continued to slam the Biden administration, arguing, “They took each social agenda and used that and used these social points as pawns to additional their administration, did nothing however divide individuals.”
“This administration has simply been hammering all of these items,” she argued, “and folks in Hollywood are petrified. What, are you going to talk out in opposition to race, and intercourse, and all of that stuff? Persons are afraid to have these conversations, as a result of to start with, you by no means win with a liberal, you’re simply by no means gonna win.”
