Shania Twain's Trump Apology Don't Impress Me Much
Shania Twain's views on President Donald Trump aren't impressing anyone as of late. On Sunday, The Guardian published a profile of the acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter, where she stated she would've voted for Donald Trump, if she had been able to vote in the 2016 election:
"I would have voted for him because, even though he was offensive, he seemed honest. Do you want straight or polite? Not that you shouldn’t be able to have both. If I were voting, I just don’t want bullshit. I would have voted for a feeling that it was transparent. And politics has a reputation of not being that, right?"
Twain, who has a new tour beginning on May 3, quickly received backlash for her response, with a number of people tweeting with the hashtag #ShaniaTwainCancelled. The singer has consistently been seen as an ally to the LGBT community, so her support of Trump (who's backed a ban on transgender people from serving in the military and refused to recognize Pride Month) was particularly startling.
In a four-part thread on Twitter Sunday night, Twain apologized for her Guardian statement. She wrote, "As a Canadian, I regret answering this unexpected question without giving my response more context. I am passionately against discrimination of any kind and hope it’s clear from the choices I have made, and the people I stand with, that I do not hold any common moral beliefs with the current President." She wrote that she was trying to explain that she believed the President had "talked to a portion of America like an accessible person they could relate to," but that her answer doesn't mean she endorses him.
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