Hollywood celebrities are pushing a false narrative that former President Donald Trump will ban elections if he makes a comeback to the White House.
Their baseless claim originates from a recent speech where the GOP presidential nominee urged Christians to vote in large numbers this November. The statement is being taken out of context from a 27-second video clip.
“Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore. In four years, you won’t have to vote again,” Trump said Friday to the crowd at Turning Point Action’s Believers’ Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Celebrities distorted Trump’s comments to suggest he intends to ban elections outright. In reality, Trump was advocating for a “landslide too big to rig,” emphasizing that a significant victory would allow a second Trump administration to reform election laws with voter ID requirements.
This, he argued, would lessen the need for massive voter turnout to address perceived fraud. The full context of his statement is as follows:
I will secure our elections. Our goal will be, as I said, one day voting with paper ballots, proof of citizenship, and a thing called voter ID. (Applause) You know, when you negotiate and I do that with the Democrats and I negotiate with them all the time on this. I say, look, we’re going to fix our laws with voting, we have to start with voter ID. Everybody has to — “No way!” — the discussion never even goes any further.
I say, we have to have voter ID. It’s called voter identification. “No, we’re not going to do it.” Now, there’s only one reason they do that. because they want to cheat. There’s only one reason.
You know, in their national convention, when they have their convention, they have a voter tag on them bigger than their chest, depending on who, whose, which chest we’re talking about. Bigger than this, I like this. It has their name, their serial number, it’s got the whole deal, middle name, past addresses, it’s got everything. Otherwise you can’t get into the Democrat National Convention.
But with voting, one of your most important things you can do, maybe in many ways your most important, they don’t want to approve voter ID. That’s because they want to cheat. But until then, Republicans must win. We have to win this election. Most important election ever. (Applause)
We want a landslide that’s too big to rig. If you want to save America, get your friends, get your family, get everyone you know, and vote, vote early, vote absentee, vote on Election Day. I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote.
And again, Christians — get out and vote! Just this time. (Applause) You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore. My beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians. I’m a Christian. I love you. Get out. You’ve got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good. You’re not going to have to vote.
Since Friday’s speech, pro-Kamala celebrities such as Rob Reiner, Mia Farrow, and Barbra Streisand have disseminated the Trump hoax to their millions of social media followers. Disney’s Doctor Strange director Scott Derrickson has also shared the false claim.
Scott Derrickson, the director of Disney’s Marvel superhero film Doctor Strange, falsley claimed that Trump “will remain in power until he dies.”
“Trump telling Christians he will fix the government so that, once in power, he will be a dictator who will not allow free elections. He will remain in power until he dies. He’s a fascist who intends to topple our democracy by promising Christians he’s got their back,” he wrote on X.
Mia Farrow also spread the lie, saying Trump will hold onto the White House forever.
Rob Reiner falsely claimed Trump “point blank said he will destroy our Democracy.”
Several other celebrities re-posted the hoax from other accounts, including John Cusack, Amber Tamblyn, and Nancy Sinatra.
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