Actress and director Justine Bateman praises President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House as a liberating force for all those who value freedom of speech and expression.
She said it feels like a cloud has lifted with President Trump's landslide victory.
“I feel good. In fact, I feel great,” Bateman said on FOX News Digital. interview.
“It feels like there was a suffocating cloud hanging over us…Any member of the public who questioned the decisions that were being made was subtly or overtly threatened into silence. And I feel like that has been broken and that kind of oppression has been broken.”
Bateman is best known for playing Mallory Keaton on the hit 1980s sitcom family tiesrecently made headlines for noting that the past four years have been a “very un-American time” for freedom of expression, with only “sanctioned positions” accepted by those in power.
“My belief is that everyone should be free to live their life the way they want, but not infringe on the ability of others to live their lives freely the way they want.” Bateman told FOX News Digital.
The actress also noted that during the Biden administration, and even before, America has become stifled as a nation once built on the very foundation of unconditional free speech.
of new york post memo She said the concept of mob rule on social media has flourished under the Biden administration, even on hot-button topics from Gaza to trans athletes in women's sports and all forms of social justice. , all opinions, all likes and dislikes,” he warned. — “We were held to a very limited list of ‘permitted positions’ to assess acceptability.”
“Oh, we've got ourselves a '1984,'” she said. post With an exasperated sigh. “Report surveillance and monitor each other. Come on. Why? Don't you want to relax? Do you always want to feel like you're the one testifying? Someone taping evidence to be brought into court? Do you always want to feel like you are there? Why do you want to live like that?”
Bateman, whose younger brother, “Ozark” actor Jason Bateman, was upset by Kamala Harris' election, was in Washington, D.C., on the night of Nov. 5, watching as states swung in favor of Trump. was.
“I was surprised when I physically felt that my body had become lighter,” she recalled to the media. “I didn’t realize how uncomfortable the past four years had been until I felt the balloon deflate.”
