{"id":3114,"date":"2025-07-12T02:32:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3114\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T02:32:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T02:32:03","slug":"dumb-people-think-ron-swanson-is-a-trump-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/3114\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb People Think Ron Swanson Is a Trump Voter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNick Offerman<\/a> said in an interview with IndieWire<\/a> while promoting his film \u201cSovereignty\u201d that only \u201cdumb people\u201d think Ron Swanson, his beloved \u201cParks and Recreation<\/a>\u201d character, is a Donald Trump<\/a> supporter. Offerman played Ron on all seven seasons of the NBC sitcom, which ran for 126 episodes between 2009 and 2015. The actor said that MAGA supporters think Ron \u201cmust be one of us\u201d just because he has a shotgun or something.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDumb people insist that Ron Swanson would\u2019ve voted for Trump. And I don\u2019t deign to answer myself,\u201d Offerman said. \u201cI take it to Mike Schur, the main creator of Ron, and he said, \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

\n\t\u201cHe would think he\u2019s an absolute idiot,\u201d Offerman continued about Ron\u2019s thoughts on Trump. \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

\n\tOfferman has always been protective over Ron since \u201cParks and Recreation\u201d wrapped. Earlier this year, the actor defended the LGBTQ+ community<\/a> against homophobic hate on X after Michael Flynn Jr., son of retired Army lieutenant general and Trump\u2019s former U.S. national security advisor Michael Flynn, attempted to use a clip of Ron Swanson to denounce Pride Month.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJust wanted to post how I feel about \u2018pride\u2019 month,\u201d Flynn Jr. wrote on X accompanied by a \u201cParks and Rec\u201d clip showing Swanson throwing a rainbow flag into a dumpster. Only the clip was doctored to make it appear as if Offerman\u2019s character was homophobic. The real scene, from the fourth season episode \u201cThe Trial of Leslie Knope,\u201d sees Ron throwing his computer in the trash. The edit Flynn Jr. shared on X replaced the computer with the rainbow flag.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRon was best man at a gay wedding you dumb fuck,\u201d Offerman fired back on X. \u201cHappy Pride.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOfferman was referring to the \u201cParks and Recreation\u201d series finale, \u201cOne Last Ride,\u201d where Ron serves as the best man to his hairdresser, Typhoon (Rodney To).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Offerman said in an interview with IndieWire while promoting his film \u201cSovereignty\u201d that only \u201cdumb people\u201d think…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,12,88,3713,3714],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-nick-offerman","tag-parks-and-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","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=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}