Welp, it looks like Trump is one step closer to having his Hollywood Star removed from the Walk of Fame. He better start changing his tune on Climate Change!
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER – West Hollywood City Council has voted “unanimously” to approve a resolution urging Los Angeles City Council and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to permanently remove Donald Trump’s Walk of Fame star.
The council considered the removal of the star at a meeting on Monday evening. The agenda item read: “The City Council will consider adopting a resolution urging the Los Angeles City Council and Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to remove President Donald J. Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, due to his disturbing treatment of women and other actions that do not meet the shared values of the City of West Hollywood, the region, state, and country”
Following the meeting, a council rep emailed The Hollywood Reporter: “At this evening’s regular City Council meeting, the West Hollywood City Council voted unanimously to approve the Resolution.”
The staff report for the resolution lists numerous reasons for the matter, including the separation of children from their parents at the border, the denial of the impacts from climate change on the word, Trump’s treatment of transgendered individuals and the denial of findings from the intelligence community of Russian interference in the 2016 election, among others.
Despite the vote and the unanimous urging of the West Hollywood City Council, there’s no guarantee that it will be removed:
The approval of a resolution urging the removal of Trump’s star, however, does not necessarily mean that L.A. City Council and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce will follow through. In December 2015, there were widespread calls for the removal of Bill Cosby’s star from the Walk of Fame amid multiple sexual assault claims leveled against the comedian. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Leron Gubler emailed THR that the chamber did not remove stars over public backlash and cited historical landmark status.
Gubler stated: “The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a registered historic landmark. Once a star has been added to the Walk, it is considered a part of the historic fabric of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Because of this, we have never removed a star from the Walk.”
A unanimous vote by the jerks in Hollywood? Big surprise.
So now I guess it’s up to the Hollywood Chamber at this point. If they are as rigid as they sounded in their response to the Cosby backlash, then I think Trump’s star is pretty safe.
But never let past precedent and rigid guidelines stand in the way of a liberal TDS moment. I say there’s no telling what they’ll do with this request. The might just agree to it and shoot his star out of the sky!
As a side note, earlier tonight I mistakenly confused the Hollywood Chamber with the West Hollywood City Council when making a point about hypocrisy. There was no hypocrisy based on the content of the article, just stupidity at West Hollywood having this vote in the first place. Just wanted to clarify that.