Liberal actress and screenwriter Lena Dunham has some advice for her fellow Trump critics: Mocking the president’s physical features should be off-limits because it’s counterproductive.
“We have enough cogent, thoughtful, philosophical [arguments] to fill a bible, so why not use those instead of like, ’That orange piece of [expletive],’ ” Ms. Dunham said, Entertainment Weekly reported Thursday.
“It doesn’t reclaim our power to talk about him like he’s an object. It doesn’t reclaim our power [to] insult his physicality,” she told a New York audience gathered Wednesday for for “TimesTalks: A Final Farewell to the Cast of Girls.”
The talk, which cost $40 and was presented by The New York Times, promoted the upcoming sixth and final season of Ms. Dunham’s controversial drama “Girls,” which premieres on Sunday, Feb. 12, at 10 p.m. Eastern.
Ms. Dunham raised eyebrows last month with an anti-Trump poem that oddly described the women of America as President Trump’s “daughters,” explaining of the massive protest movement they are “[r]ebellious ones” who “steal the car keys and the wallet” and “don’t give a [expletive] what our daddies think[.]”
After significant pushback, Ms. Dunham deleted that post, reported Someecards.com, and, in its place put up an image lamenting being the recipient of online “abuse.”
• Ken Shepherd can be reached at kshepherd@washingtontimes.com.
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