Former state rep Trillo (left) released a statement calling for a boycott of celebrities who "rant" against President Trump.
Former State Representative Joe Trillo, who served as Rhode Island’s Honorary Chairman of the Trump for President Campaign, has called for a boycott of entertainers who "rant against President Donald Trump."
Republican Trillo was first elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 2000, and served as Minority Whip before announcing he would not be seeking re-election in 2016.
"Have you had enough of the left wing liberals who call themselves Progressives telling you what is right for our country? Have you had enough of the elites’ political grandstanding from the safety of their gated homes, gilded podiums and Broadway stages?
I call upon all Trump supporters to join me in sending a message to Hollywood elites and Broadway pontificators. I am tired of the entertainment community trying to impose their political views on those of us who exercised our own political choices, choices that they simply don’t like and results that they certainly didn’t expect.”
We only look to entertainers for entertainment, not political guidance. They are no wiser for their craft and perhaps less so as compared with average Americans across our country who are working hard to make ends meet.”
Did you hear an outcry of embarrassment from these elites when Madonna, one of their own, opened her filthy mouth during her political rant from London, no less? I wonder how many children were in that crowd when she spewed her ugly words. Frankly, their silence was deafening.
I am tired of hearing stars that I used to enjoy watching, like Robert De Niro and [Meryl] Streep, speak out against our President. Yes, it’s time to boycott those people we may have enjoyed as entertainers but don’t respect for their political rants!
It is time to send the message that all we want from them is to ‘do your job,' in other words, shut up and entertain us! It is our money that funds them, so I ask that all Trump supporters remind them that political boycotts cut both ways.
Let’s teach the stars a lesson. Boycott any star who rants against our president for one full year. Don’t pay to go to their events, concerts, and movies. Don’t be a part of the studio audience of TV shows. Don’t help their Nielsen ratings by watching Late Night TV.
Boycott retail stores like Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Burlington. These stores made shopping political by dumping the Ivanka Trump line of retail products. Don’t shop there for at least one year!
The only way to teach these people and corporations a lesson is by hitting their bottom lines. Help them suffer financially because that is the only message they will ever understand.
So, Trump supporters, spread the word! Let’s use a boycott as a weapon and let’s fight back against Hollywood elitists and self-righteous Broadway actors!"
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"We don't really know what a Trump presidency means for the nation, never mind the smallest state. One of the unintended consequences of last night's results is that Sen. Jack Reed won't be chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Chalk that up as a loss for RI."
"Trump’s win means that his signature issue, illegal immigration, could have a big impact on RI, hopefully reversing our course as a sanctuary state and saving the state taxpayer millions of dollars. While we agree with his 'repeal and replace' Obamacare stance, we have no idea what that means to the RI debacle known as UHIP. It is not a stretch to believe that federal funding for this kind of system will be off the table so, will RI be stuck with this massively expensive system that still doesn’t work and that is expected to cost another $124 million to fix?
Trump's belief that there is significant fraud in the Food Stamp program and the policies that may come from that belief could have a negative impact on RI's local economy since there are businesses in certain cities that rely heavily on this program, fraud and all. On the upside, we may be able to ditch the UHIP program if there is significantly less need for processing welfare program requests (ie. Medicaid and food stamps) resulting from fewer illegal immigrants and less fraud. While we are ambivalent about his touted child care policies, if enacted, it may force our legislators to revisit the ever growing state cost of subsidies in this area and possibly reduce the fraud and abuse in this system."
"The RI congressional delegation just became even less powerful than it was. With unified government, Trump doesn’t need to quell Democrats’ concerns or acquiesce because he’s worried about a Democratically-controlled Senate.
His appointments will reflect that. His executive orders will affect that. And the conservative policy agenda he puts forward will affect that."
"Well there's a few things -- because there's not going to be gridlock, that's a big difference if it had been Hillary and a GOP Congress, in which nothing would got done. We'll at least get a half a billion in infrastructure that's going to pass which will have an impact.
I think you'll see there will be reduced reliance on government nationally -- and that's where we'll stick out like sore thumb. We've relied way too much on government -- and our government is highly inefficient and ineffective. Maybe, just maybe, in this who cycle of things we might be forced to be small and more efficient for once.
A couple of other things -- interest rates jumped. The one to follow is the ten year government bond rate -- which is tied to mortgages. It went from 1.7% to 2.05% in one day. The point is -- if the ten year stays high, mortgage rates will start going higher -- and in the short time people will run to re-finance.
That's the short term impact -- but then if rates stay hight, that will make mortgages more out of reach. And we just passed a bond issue to limit open space -- housing has limited upside here.
The next thing -- the Fed Reserve will go ahead with tightening next month. A strong dollar will hurt manufacturing. When the dollar is strong our exports become more expensive overseas.
Our goods production sector -- manufacturing and construction -- in the near term will do a little better, but as time goes on will be more limited. But something you won't hear, is there are lags in fiscal policy, of six months to year. So we won't really see the effects until the third our fourth quarter of 2017, going into 2018."
"As the unbelievable turned into reality this morning, it struck me that the presidential election was not really all about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. It was about a fed-up people, revolting against a corrupt system - the "beast" - that relentlessly favors insiders. Hillary personified the beast, while Donald personified the slayer.
Sadly, based on election results in our state, Rhode Island's version of the beast lives on. I fear our political class has not learned the lessons from the Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump movements - and will continue with their government-centric, anti-family, anti-business status quo."
"A Trump Presidency means the validation of the ugliest part of America. In RI, as with the rest of the country, the hammer of his hatred will fall hardest on minority communities. Being a blue state doesn't make us immune from this danger.
Trump won over 35% (39.5) of the vote here! We need to look in the mirror, and not lie about what the reflection shows us. No more hiding underneath a blue blanket. I expect those who claim Democratic values to be true to those values. The gulf between words and actions have turned into fertile ground for Trump's message to grow here in RI. If you call yourself a Democrat, if you claim to stand in opposition to Trump, now is the time to prove it. Show up and fight back."
