Choosing patriotism over Hollywood pettiness, Cheryl Hines was seen fitting in with MAGA peers at an event headlined by First Lady Melania Trump.
On the campaign trail in 2024, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a key backer in building President Donald Trump’s push for unity against the radical left. Since Kennedy became Health and Human Services secretary, increased ostracization from the celebrity crowd found his actress wife, Hines, an exemplar of MAHA’s mesh with MAGA, as was the case at a Monday event honoring military families.
Led by the first lady and Second Lady Usha Vance, the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star was seen smiling with spouses of other cabinet secretaries while sporting an all-white outfit that included a turtle-neck sweater adorned with an American flag, while filling care packages for military families in partnership with the American Red Cross.
Cheryl Hines embraced as MAGA wife during Melania Trump’s public appearance after being ditched by Hollywood pals pic.twitter.com/RAA8zSD2jw
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Her jovial demeanor with the likes of Kathryn Burgum, Lisa Collins, Marlo Greer, Jennifer Hegseth, and Liz Wright comes as the Daily Mail reported in October how sources insisted Hines was “unrecognizable” after a so-called MAGA transformation.
While the change was marked as “beyond comprehension,” those not suffering from full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome could readily see the difference in treatment.
Last month, Hines appeared with comedian Bill Maher on his “Club Random” podcast and expressed, “The Republicans have been very kind to me from the beginning. Even from the beginning, when Bobby was running as a Democrat, they weren’t mean. And they never have been. And I can’t say that for the Democrats.”
While she went on to refer to them as “very mean,” Maher remarked about the change from the “Democrats we grew up with. And that’s the difference that people don’t, I think, see. They’re like, ‘Why did you turn on the Democrats?’ Well, first of all, I didn’t. Like I said, we voted for the same person. But I’m not going to pretend I don’t notice how different they are. How mean they’ve become.”
Prior to that, Hines joined Tucker Carlson for an interview where she recounted how her husband’s White House bid had impacted her work.
“It was hard ’cause it made me sad. Because I had been working on this show for a long time, and it was always pure joy,” she told Carlson. “And I mean, even when the vaccines of it all were introduced, there started to be an element that made its way into conversations at work that, up until that moment, had — like I said — only been pure joy.”
Confirming that politics had begun to “divide [her] friendships,” similar ostracization could be seen during an October appearance on ABC’s “The View” where she was made to defend her husband’s role in the Trump administration aiming to restore gold standard science as Hines also reminded after a detraction from co-host Whoopi Goldberg on Kennedy’s résumé, “… just to be clear, 90% of secretaries of HHS have not been doctors.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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