Alyssa Milano
She made her name on “Melrose Place,” but now she’s making a name for herself in politics. While she’s still appearing on TV in shows including “Mistresses” and “Insatiable,” Milano has also been active in protests in support of left-wing policies. In 2007, for example, she appeared in advertisements for PETA, and in 2015, she publicly endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders in his presidential run. Recently, her protests have focused on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Drawing from “A Handmaids Tale,” Milano and many other women protested in red-and-white dresses with bonnets around the Capitol Building, demanding that senators vote against the nominee.
Ted Nugent
The ultra-conservative rock star was one of the first celebrities to visit Trump at the White House. In his concerts, he said that former President Barack Obama could “suck his machine gun,” and he even said that Hillary Clinton should be hanged. After the Congressional baseball shooting, he briefly stopped his harsh rhetoric. “Is this America’s breaking point?” he asked on CNN. “It’s my breaking point. We’ve got to end this.” Nugent came under heavy criticism after writing a column for a conservative website in which he described Trayvon Martin as a “17-year-old, dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe.”
Jimmy Kimmel
Like most late-night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel has been openly left-leaning for years. However, he has said that the reason for this is that the job “requires a measure of intelligence.” For example, he gave a monologue in May 2017 in support of the Affordable Care Act (commonly called Obamacare) after his son had open-heart surgery. In March, he told Oprah that “According to polls I’ve seen, it’s cost me commercially.” However, he’s also told CBS, “if they’re so turned off by my opinion on health care and gun violence, then I don’t know. I probably wouldn’t want to have a conversation with them anyway.”