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Jimmy Kimmel’s wife, Molly McNearney, recently admitted on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast that she has “lost relationships” with relatives who voted for President Trump, saying their votes felt like a personal rejection of her family. This was not a private lament but a public confession from someone who helps shape late-night messaging, and it shows how politicized even ordinary family ties have become.
McNearney explained that she’s pulled closer to relatives who share her views and that the votes felt like an attack on her husband, whom she says is “out there fighting this man.” Her remarks made clear she views political disagreement as moral betrayal rather than mere difference of opinion, and she admitted the feud left her “angry all the time.”
According to reporting, McNearney even admitted sending emails urging family members not to back Trump, and that her attempts at persuasion backfired as ties frayed. That level of intervention from Hollywood into family votes is revealing: elites pressing relatives to toe a political line, then acting surprised when people choose a different future for their country.
She framed her break with relatives in terms of “family values,” while criticizing the Republican Party for abandoning Christian obligations to care for the poor and sick. It’s striking to hear the head writer and executive producer of a major late-night program recast political choices as a litmus test for being worthy of family membership.
None of this comes in a vacuum — Jimmy Kimmel’s show was temporarily pulled earlier this year after a controversial monologue, a reminder that the entertainment class uses its platform to enforce ideological conformity and then invokes victimhood when pushback arrives. Hollywood’s power to amplify scolding and to try to cancel dissenting voices only fuels the wedge between ordinary Americans and the cultural elite.
Working Americans see through this. Millions who voted for lower taxes, secure borders, and safer streets did so because they want a better life for their families, not to earn the approval of late-night writers. Real patriotism looks like listening to neighbors and relatives, not shunning them because they disagree at the ballot box.
If liberals like McNearney want to reclaim the moral high ground, they should start by practicing the tolerance they preach: visit the aunt who voted differently, break bread with the cousin who chose liberty over celebrity scorn, and stop treating political choices as disqualifiers for family. America is strongest when families stay families despite disagreement, and conservatives will keep fighting for a country where hard-working citizens aren’t ostracized for wanting a safer, freer future.
