Why Jennifer Lawrence won't bash Donald Trump anymore

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Jennifer Lawrence attends the “Die My Love” premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on Nov. 1, 2025 in New York City. Photo by Arturo Holmes /Getty ImagesArticle content

Jennifer Lawrence is going to keep her political opinions to herself.

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After criticizing Donald Trump during his first term, Lawrence, 35, told The New York Times’The Interview podcast that she will no longer speak out against the U.S. president.

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“I don’t really know if I should. The first Trump administration was so wild … I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off. But as we’ve learned, election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for. So then what am I doing? I’m just sharing my opinion on something that’s going to add fuel to a fire that’s ripping the country apart. We are so divided,” Lawrence said.

Back in 2015, Lawrence predicted that if Trump were to become president, he would be a disaster.

“If Donald Trump becomes president, that will be the end of the world. I genuinely believe that reality television has reached the ultimate place where now even things like this might just be for entertainment,” she told Entertainment Weekly at the time.

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Lawrence also penned an essay for Broadly in which she urged voters to protest against Trump after he was elected in 2016.

“Do not let this defeat you — let this enrage you!” she wrote. “Let it motivate you! Let this be the fire you didn’t have before. If you are an immigrant, if you are a person of colour, if you are LGBTQ+, if you are a woman — don’t be afraid, be loud!”

In 2020, she admitted she grew up “a little Republican” and “voted for John McCain.” But she turned away from the party after “Donald Trump got elected.”

“This is an impeached president who’s broken many laws and has refused to condemn white supremacy, and it feels like there has been a line drawn in the sand. I don’t think it’s right … it just changes things for me,” she said during an appearance on the Absolutely Not podcast, according to PEOPLE.

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Doesn’t want to turn people off

Now, following Trump’s return to the White House, the Oscar-winning actress says that she doesn’t want to be in a position where she’s “turning people off.”

“I think I’m in a complicated recalibration because I’m also an artist,” Lawrence told the Times. “With this temperature and the way things can turn out, I don’t want to start turning people off to films and to art that could change consciousness or change the world because they don’t like my political opinions.”

Lawrence said she wants her movies to be a two-hour escape for audiences.

“I want to protect my craft so that you can still get lost in what I’m doing. And if I can’t say something that’s going to speak to some kind of peace or lowering the temperature or some sort of solution, I don’t want to be a part of the problem,” she said. “I don’t want to make the problem worse… You watch these actors’ faces who have had incredible careers and made incredible contributions and then one half of the Internet doesn’t want to see their face anymore. I get so upset for those people and it feels so wrong.”

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When The Hunger Games star was asked if she had any regrets about her past behaviour, Lawrence said she regretted “everything I’ve ever done or said.” But Lawrence said that Trump’s resounding victory in 2024 over the Democratic nominee she supported — Kamala Harris — meant she and some of her Hollywood contemporaries were out of step with the electorate.

“The second term feels different. Because he said what he was going to do. We knew what he did for four years. He was very clear. And that’s what we chose,” she said.

Asked Robert Pattinson about Trump’s rant

Elsewhere during her press tour to support her new thriller Die My Love, Lawrence has revealed that she asked her co-star, Robert Pattinson, how he felt when Trump weighed in on the cheating scandal involving him and his then-girlfriend Kristen Stewart in 2012.

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“Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart,” Trump wrote at the time. “She cheated on him like a dog & will do it again — just watch. He can do much better!”

In another post, Trump urged Pattinson to “be smart.”

“Everyone knows I am right that Robert Pattinson should dump Kristen Stewart,” Trump said.

“It was, like, three days after the photos came out with her with, you know, whatever. Young people make mistakes,” Lawrence recalled during a recent appearance on The Graham Norton Show. “And Donald Trump was like, ‘He better leave her. He can do better than her,’ going on a huge rant … If you think I didn’t ask him about Donald Trump tweeting about the breakup with Kristen, obviously.”

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