Hollywood warned us.

If Americans choose Donald Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris it’ll be the end of democracy.

Never mind that Trump previously served as president and the nation didn’t collapse under his “dictatorial” regime. Nor that Harris’s ascension came without a single primary vote.

Now, the stars are cosplaying their worst nightmares since reality refuses to cooperate.

George Clooney joined this ignominious group while promoting “Good Night, and Good Luck,” the Broadway adaptation of his 2005 film. First, he guided Broadway superstar Patti LuPone away from the ledge during their Variety conversation.

George Clooney: “We’re going to get through [the Trump era].” 

Patti LuPone: “Do you think so?” 

Clooney: “I’m an optimist.” 

LuPone: “See, I’m a glass half empty girl.”

The “ER” alum still fears that President Trump might target him for saying such things, but he refuses to stand down.

“Sure. Everybody worries about it … But, you know, if you spend your life worrying about things, then you won’t do things. You know, we have, like everybody, a family, and we have a life, and we try to, you know, live and do things as the best example for our kids. And I want to be able to look at my kids in the eye and say where we stood and what we did at certain times in history. And I have no problem with that.”

Just like Clooney did when he saw a cognitively diminished President Joe Biden last June and waited weeks to share the news (after the leader’s poll numbers drooped).

Film and Broadway star Nathan Lane ginned up controversy for his new Hulu series “Mid-Century Modern” by claiming it could be canceled by the president at a moment’s notice. The sitcom follows three older gay men living their best lives.

The show has garnered modestly positive reviews but little cultural attention. Lane accidentally acknowledged that by suggesting the series could end tomorrow if a certain Hitler 2.0 learns about it.

“Is it going to change any minds? I don’t know about that. Trump, if he knew we were on the air, would probably try to shut it down, come after Hulu. But, I think it’s a great thing to have right now, in the midst of books being banned and, ‘Don’t say this and don’t say gay and don’t do that.’ I think it’s a perfect time for a show like this.”

Lane expertly wove Fear Mongering 101 with Fake News in that short paragraph. Impressive. Can someone tell him that Trump’s Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, is a gay man? So is longtime Trump ally Richard Grenell, now tasked with leading The Kennedy Center.

Rising comic star Nikki Glaser also weighed in with her own version of Orange Man Bad. The stand-up fears that her anti-Trump comments could cost her a return trip to the U.S. She recently performed in Canada and tweaked her apolitical routine to include Trump barbs. That left her shaken, she told Time Magazine.

“Oh my God. What if what I said gets recorded and sent out? Maybe I could not be let back into the country.”

As the first comic to ever poke fun at Trump, those fears are very justified.

Musicians are weighing in with similar fears. Take hypocritical rocker Neil Young. He shared a similar worry about his international touring schedule. The ‘60s legend warned that he might not be allowed back in the U.S. for attacking Trump.

“When I go to play music in Europe, if I talk about Donald J Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminum blanket,” Young wrote. “That is happening all the time now. Countries have new advice for those returning to America.”

The irony of him worried about free speech after trying to silence Spotify superstar Joe Rogan for his pandemic views remains lost on him.

One singer had a microscopic point about re-entering the U.S.

Canadian country singer Robert Adam claims to be non-binary and scrapped plans to tour America due to Trump’s passport decree. Transgender people must declare their biological sex in the documents, something Adam refused to do.

Actor Billy Porter played the Hitler Card in a new interview tied to Trump. Porter described his current project, the 2015 play “This Bitter Earth” as both an extension of the classic show “Cabaret” and a response to Nazi Germany.

Sadly, he said we’re living in America’s version of the Third Reich under Trump.

“[Cabaret] was written as a response to Nazi Germany, and it lived in that space for 60 years as a history piece, looking back on something that we have had moved through … and now we’re doing it and America is Nazi Germany. It’s not going to be Nazi Germany. It’s not becoming Nazi Germany. It’s not in fear of becoming [Nazi Germany]. It is Nazi Germany right now, and the Jews are Black people.”

We know that all of the above is a toxic stew of virtue signaling and fear mongering. President Trump’s critics are legion, especially within the Hollywood ranks. Stephen Colbert alone has spent nearly a decade savaging him in his “Late Show” monologues, much of it with Fake News gags tied to the Russian collusion hoax.

There’s no ICE-style army waiting outside his New York theater waiting to bring him in. The same holds true across the pop culture landscape.

Sure, Trump might send out a scorching Truth Social post mocking Kimmel, Colbert or even “Saturday Night Live.” It’s beneath the dignity of his office, but it always ends there.

Always.

The aforementioned stars didn’t say a peep about the Biden administration silencing dissent on pandemic restrictions, the Deep State suppressing Hunter Biden laptop saga or other First Amendment concerns. They didn’t decry “sensitivity readers” erasing words from books by Ian Fleming, Agatha Christie or Roald Dahl.

It’s why their fears of Dictator Trump should be treated with the same reverence as a made-for-streaming movie that the platform drops with zero fanfare.

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Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of HollywoodInToto.com. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News’ Big Hollywood. Follow him at HollywoodInToto.com.

The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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