Cheryl Hines joined forces with first lady Melania Trump and second lady Usha Vance on Monday \u2014 and not everyone is happy about it.<\/p>\n
The actress, 60, met with family members of deployed servicemen and women at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George\u2019s County, Md., as part of an American Red Cross program for military families. Wearing a turtleneck sweater embroidered with an American flag, she was photographed helping assemble care packages to send overseas.<\/p>\n
Hines\u2019 appearance alongside fellow political wives isn\u2019t surprising given that she\u2019s married to US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> However, her Hollywood friends are reportedly dismayed and stunned<\/a> by the actress\u2019 transformation from liberal to conservative \u201cMAGA\u201d views.<\/p>\n Cheryl Hines made a public appearance Monday alongside first lady Melania Trump and second lady Usha Vance. Getty Images<\/p>\n The political wives took part in an American Red Cross program for military families at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George\u2019s County, Md. Getty Images<\/p>\n The Daily Mail reported in October <\/a>that one of Hines\u2019 longtime friends said they don\u2019t talk politics with her because it \u201cjust goes south.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like she\u2019s gone MAGA, or at least MAHA, which is just so\u2026beyond comprehension to me,\u201d they told the outlet.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so hard to make sense in my head because she was so liberal before,\u201d another source shared. \u201cAnd now, she\u2019s married to a member of the Trump administration and she\u2019s literally defending his ridiculous s\u2013t on\u00a0\u2018The View.’\u201d<\/p>\n The actress helped put together care packages. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n Hines appeared friendly with the first lady at the event. Getty Images<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The source brought up Hines\u2019 tense moment on \u201cThe View\u201d<\/a> in October, when she responded to co-host Sunny Hostin ripping Kennedy as \u201cthe least qualified Department of Health and Human Services head that we\u2019ve had in history.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm\u201d alum shot back, \u201cHe has spent his career studying toxins, studying people\u2019s health, fighting for one guy who was using Roundup for his job.\u201d<\/p>\n Hines was referencing her husband\u2019s former job as an attorney. Kennedy represented a school groundskeeper who claimed his use of Roundup weed killer resulted in a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma. The client was ultimately awarded $289 million in the case in 2018.<\/p>\n Vance was also photographed signing holiday cards. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n The \u201cCurb Your Enthusiasm\u201d alum was dressed in all-white. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n Hines recently talked to Page Six about her tougher times<\/a> in the spotlight, including her husband\u2019s headline-making sexting scandal with\u00a0journalist Olivia Nuzzi<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI went through a lot of darkness and not only because of politics,\u201d Hines said. \u201cI lost my nephew in the last year and it was heartbreaking. And to deal with that loss while this other chaos was going on, there were dark times.\u201d<\/p>\n She added, \u201cBut I am definitely in a new chapter that I could never have predicted I would be in.\u201d<\/p>\n Hines has reportedly lost a lot of her Hollywood friends for sticking by her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., due to his controversial views as US Secretary of Human and Health Services. Getty Images<\/p>\n After first distancing herself from his views, she has since supported him. Getty Images<\/p>\n She also reflected on why she has stood by her husband of 11 years.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s extremes on both sides to Bobby \u2014 and being his wife \u2014 because there are a lot of people who absolutely love and support him. And then there are people who, no matter what he accomplishes, are still going to criticize him,\u201d Hines said, noting that she \u201cthought it was important\u201d for her to say, \u201cThis is why I love him,\u201d in her \u201cUnscripted\u201d memoir.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is who he is as a person and this is who we are to each other,\u201d she continued. \u201cIf I\u2019m just telling the truth about what I\u2019ve been through ,,, it makes me feel better because they\u2019re my own words and you can\u2019t misconstrue them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cheryl Hines joined forces with first lady Melania Trump and second lady Usha Vance on Monday \u2014 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,362,12888,75,714,348],"class_list":["post-320607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-cheryl-hines","tag-entertainment","tag-politics","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}