Far-left leaning model Chrissy Teigen fears former President Donald Trump could come after her if he wins the White House again in November, joining other left-wing celebrities who have voiced their concerns about Trump’s potential revenge.
Teigen is particularly worried because she once called Trump a “pu**y a** b***h” during a very public spat on social media in 2019.
The online war of words erupted after Legend appeared on MSNBC to speak about criminal justice reform at the time, and neither he nor interviewer Lester Holt acknowledged that Trump had signed the First Step Act into law the year prior.
“Guys like boring musician John Legend and his filthy mouthed wife, are talking now about how great it is – but I didn’t see them around when we needed help getting it passed,” Trump tweeted at the time.
the absolute best part of his tweet is I literally didn't speak in the special, nor was I mentioned. I'm cackling at the pointless addition of me because he cannot not be a bitch pic.twitter.com/9ZkV7bh4FA
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) September 9, 2019
That’s when the Grammy winner clapped back on X, formerly Twitter at the time, urging the First Lady to step in and wrangle Trump.
“Imagine being president of a whole country and spending your Sunday night hate-watching MSNBC hoping somebody–ANYBODY–will praise you,” he tweeted.
“Melania, please praise this man. He needs you,” he added. “Your country needs you, Melania.”
Your country needs you, Melania
— John Legend (@johnlegend) September 9, 2019
Teigen chimed in to complain that Trump did not tag her in his post, but said it was an “honor” to be publicly dragged by him.
“The absolute best part of his tweet is I literally didn’t speak in the special, nor was I mentioned,” she added in a follow-up post.
“I’m cackling at the pointless addition of me because he cannot not be a bi**h.”
Five year’s later and Teigen said during an interview on the podcast “On with Kara Swisher,” that she was afraid of what retribution her “filthy” mouth could cause if Trump comes back into power.
“It’s also kind of scary, because it’s, ‘Oh, he’s aware of me’,” Teigen remarked. “What could really happen because of that? We obviously know he’s unhinged but could he actually come after you in other ways? It’s a weird feeling.”
Her husband, John Legend, was also present during the interview and is backing Biden, said that’s one reason he hopes Trump doesn’t “come within a mile of the White House again.”
“We’re going to be active. We’re going to the White House on the way home from here and we’re going to support President Biden,” Legend added.
Teigen also admitted that her political activism might harm her consumer brands.
“When you’re a name attached to your own thing, anything you say or do can affect the company or take it down for who knows how long,” she said according to Deadline.
“[Grocery] stores aren’t used to the world of celebrity partnerships. Paul Newman [with his salad dressing] isn’t going to get in trouble anymore… but if they’ve been saturated with phone calls because I spoke up about health care or women’s rights… it puts a lot of fear into them.”
Teigen is the latest in a line of liberal Hollywood figures voicing concerns about Trump’s potential for retribution.
Robert De Niro, who has become a celebrity spokesman for the Biden campaign, stated that Trump “will come looking for me” if he retakes the White House.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has also voiced her worries, saying she fears Trump’s return to power could mean her own detainment in “camps” intended for illegal immigrants.
The primetime host told CNN last week that she was “worried about the country broadly if we put someone in power who is openly avowing that he plans to build camps to hold millions of people, and to ‘root out’ what he’s described in subhuman terms as his ‘enemy from within.’”
“For that matter, what convinces you that these massive camps he’s planning are only for migrants?” She asked host Oliver Darcy. “So, yes, I’m worried about me — but only as much as I’m worried about all of us.”
“I think there’s a little bit of head-in-the-sand complacency that Trump only intends to go after individual people he has already singled out. Do you really think he plans to stop at well-known liberals?” She questioned.
During an appearance on “The View” co-host Joy Behar expressed her own concerns that Trump might remove both her ABC talk show and Maddow’s MSNBC show, from television if he becomes president again.
Joy Behar fears Donald Trump could pull The View and Rachel Maddow’s show off the air in a second term.
The propaganda wing of the tyranny is panicking…🤷♂️
pic.twitter.com/ZpzQvi46p1— Andre Nuta 🇺🇲 (@andre_nuta) June 18, 2024
“So you said recently that you thought that you, as an outspoken critic, could be a target yourself. Some people think that sounds overdramatic, but I’m right there with you,” Behar told Maddow.
“I think that he is so vindictive that he will go after, however he has to, through the IRS maybe, or even through sponsors, to get us off the air maybe, or you,” she theorized. “How seriously should we be taking that?”
Maddow reiterated that she wasn’t anymore worried about what Trump could do to her personally, than she was about his impact on the rest of the nation.
“I think it’s bad to have somebody saying, ‘Give me as much power as you can in this country so I can use it to go after other Americans, so I can use it to go after these subhuman internal enemies and I will destroy them,'” she said about Trump.
“That’s just not a good system for anybody, and I don’t think anybody is safe if that’s the sort of basis on which he wants to get more power,” Maddow noted.
She said that herself, Behar, and all the other liberal celebrities that could potentially be targeted by Trump would be okay because of their “resources.”
“But I think there’s a pattern where he picks out individual people and effectively terrorizes them,” Maddow concluded.
Behar also drew comparisons to former President Richard Nixon’s “enemies list,” suggesting it was an accomplishment to be on it.
“That was a proud moment for some people, when they were on the enemies list. Maybe we have to turn it around like that,” Behar commented.