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Movie Star Politics: Tales of Hollywood 19

Is Chris Pratt a Trumper?

Elizabeth Sobieski
ILLUMINATION
Published in
2 min readOct 2, 2024

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Actor Chris Pratt in a black T-shirt speaking at Comic Con, San Diego, in 2016 about his film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
Chris Pratt, 2016, speaking at Comic Con International, San Diego, for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2,” Gage Skidmore, Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Sometimes I stare at that creep Trump on MSNBC or CNN. Maybe I should like him, as a fellow fat man.

I mean, we haven’t had a fat president since William Howard Taft, who served from 1909–1913.

I should identify with Trump for his lack of pulchritude but I don’t. I truly hate the man.

He makes my father look like an intellectual giant and a font of morality. And what is he hiding between those garish and attenuated ties? Probably not much.

I wonder what Robert Downey Jr. thinks of him?

I am suspicious of Downey’s politics because there is a rumor online that he is secretly a Republican.

Chris Pratt has become my new role model, a fatty who transmogrified into a superhero, but I’ve also heard he’s a Trumper. But I didn’t hear it from him, so it may just be a rumor.

I’ve been studying Pratt’s career. He had been an athlete too, a high school wrestling champion, and he was fat on “Parks and Recreation,” but lost it to play a professional baseball catcher and first baseman in “Moneyball.” And then a Navy Seal in “Zero Dark Thirty.”

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Elizabeth Sobieski
ILLUMINATION

Elizabeth Sobieski @TheMaskedHatter on Instagram, has written for various publications and is the author of “The Masked Hatter-Pandemic Style", Penser Press.