{"id":2475,"date":"2025-07-11T20:58:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/2475\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T20:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:58:03","slug":"nick-offerman-says-would-hate-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/2475\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Offerman says would hate Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Offerman is whole-assing his defense of Ron Swanson from the clutches of \u201cdumb people\u201d who insist the beloved Parks And Recreation libertarian would have voted for Donald Trump. It\u2019s a refrain he\u2019s repeated since at least 2017<\/a>, but notably pulled out in recent months to chide Michael Flynn Jr.<\/a>\u2014the son of former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn\u2014for using his image in a homophobic meme during Pride month. (\u201cRon was best man at a gay wedding you dumb fuck. #HappyPride,\u201d Offerman posted in reference to his hairdresser\u2019s nuptials in the series finale.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the unfortunate pattern in a recent conversation with IndieWire<\/a>, Offerman characterized Ron as \u201ca wonderful creation from much more brilliant minds than my own\u201d who people \u201chold up for the wrong reasons, and take their own reading of this true Libertarian who was cool with everybody.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey somehow say, \u2018Well, he had a shotgun, so he must be one of us,’\u201d the actor continued. When confronted with this argument, Offerman said he generally refers back to Parks And Recreation creator Mike Schur, who had the following to say on the matter: \u201c\u2018Swanson would\u2019ve despised Trump, because Ron loved capitalism. And Trump made the stupidest move you could make as a capitalist, which is to go into public service.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe would think he\u2019s an absolute idiot,\u201d Offerman continued, now in his own words. \u201cHe would also despise him because he\u2019s disrespectful to women and many others. And that\u2019s just an example of all the people and value sets that Ron would despise, because Ron is a good person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parks And Recreation crew finally share taste of legendary Philly Justice<\/a>Chris Pratt thought Parks And Recreation needed to lay off the Jerry jokes a bit<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite his entrenched beliefs, Offerman has played multiple characters whose ideals lean further right than his own, including the president in Alex Garland\u2019s Civil War<\/a> and sovereign citizen Jerry Kane in Christian Swegal\u2019s Sovereign, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in June. \u201cI don\u2019t seek out anything in this particular wheelhouse\u2026 I don\u2019t know the answer to [why people continue to want to see me in this] because I\u2019m not the discerning eye choosing me,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I do know that I\u2019m grateful to be given the opportunity, because the mistakes of our civilization are so frustrating on a daily basis\u2026 And so I feel like, if somehow because I played Ron Swanson, I can bring eyeballs to a project that wouldn\u2019t necessarily otherwise be there, maybe just slowly, that\u2019s part of the erosion of the bigotry in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Offerman is whole-assing his defense of Ron Swanson from the clutches of \u201cdumb people\u201d who insist the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}