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Ellen Tweets About Trump's Anti-Muslim Ban As He Screens Finding Dory 

Ellen DeGeneres Tweets About Trump's Anti-Muslim Ban As He Screens Finding Dory at the White House

Ellen DeGeneres Tweets About Trump's Anti-Muslim Ban As He Screens Finding Dory at the White House

The leader of the free world saw fit to screen Finding Dory even as thousands protested his hateful anti-Muslim ban, and Ellen did not sit by for it. 

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Airports across the country were jammed with protesters expressing outrage at Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim immigration ban on Sunday. Meanwhile, he was busy with hosting his first big movie event at The White House – a screening of Pixar’s animated blockbuster Finding Dory, a film about families reuniting voiced by the world’s most famous lesbian, Ellen DeGeneres.

Theatrically released films have been made available to presidents reaching back to the dawn of the moving image when Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. Griffith’s 1915 love letter to the Ku Klux Klan, The Birth of a Nation, according to The Hollywood Reporter

While the original The Birth of a Nation would not be out of place in Trump’s White House, the current administration had put out requests for Finding Dory and the raunchy comedy Why Him? starring Bryan Cranston and James Franco, THR reports.

While the leader of the free world (for now) was cozying up to an animated children’s flick in the White House family theater, according to his press schedule,  protesters continued to swarm airports in response Trump’s executive order banning entry to the United States by people from seven different predominantly Muslim nations.

Finding Dory,  the long-awaited sequel to 2003’s Finding Nemo, was released this year and became an instant blockbuster. In the film, Dory (voiced by Ellen), travels the world in search of her parents (an ironic choice of a plot from a man whose Muslim ban has the ability to ostensibly separate countless families).

Not one to shy away from difficult, important political topics despite the light nature of her talk show, Ellen Tweeted at the White House about the ban upon learning of the screening, according to THR. And, as usual, she got her message across in a way that is both light and deadly serious.

 

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Tracy E. Gilchrist

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.

Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.