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‘Yellowstone’ Boss Warns Dems Are Playing With Fire By Defying POTUS

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Taylor Sheridan
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“Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan says America’s loss of trust has made it vulnerable to a dangerous new problem where people ignore federal authority when they don’t like who’s in charge.

The TV hitmaker went on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and said the fight over President Donald Trump isn’t just normal political arguing anymore, but part of a bigger loss of trust in institutions.

Sheridan opened the warning by tying the moment to distrust that lingered long after the pandemic.

“I think in 30 years when they look back, like — we are still suffering from a society from COVID like still, and not so much from the disease itself, but from our faith in the institutions around us,” Sheridan told the titular host.

“Whether it’s government, whether it’s the media, whether it’s pharmaceutical companies and the way that it was manipulated to gain power for a political group, and it was effective and so when something’s effective then people just keep doing the same thing until it’s no longer effective right?”

To make his point, Sheridan used a simple comparison, saying the U.S. has struggled in more recent conflicts to win over people the way it once did.

“So our government, and it’s so dangerous what we’re seeing,” Sheridan cautioned.

He then spelled out the precedent he feared is already happening across the nation.

“You can like Trump or not like Trump,” he said, noting that, “People are going to like presidents and dislike presidents, but now defying the rule of law because he happens to be the head of the federal government and openly defying the federal government.”

“The repercussions of that are going to be, ‘Okay, fine. You can’t stand this man. You think he’s a terrible president, and you’re not going to follow his laws. But that’s the new normal now,’” he warned.

He argued that the pattern would not stay confined to just Trump.

“So when a president gets in that you do support, then the other side, because we’ve established this precedent, they’re just not going to follow his laws either,” Sheridan remarked. “And now we’ve eroded the rule of law, and then what happens?”

Rogan pushed the warning toward deportation tactics, saying even immigration enforcement he broadly supports could normalize militarized policing in public life.

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“The slippery slope is very dangerous,” Rogan replied, pointing out that while he is not thrilled about illegal immigrants being in the United States, he worries that making heavily armed policing a normal part of everyday life could eventually be used by left-wing leaders if they regain power.

He acknowledged that mass deportations may require hard tactics after the border surge, but still worried about what future leaders could do with the same precedent.

“You’re setting a weird precedent, you’re setting a precedent that can be used in other ways,” he pointed out.

Sheridan agreed that both parties are playing a short-sighted game.

“It’s slippery. It is slippery. And again, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” he said.

“And these politicians right now who are doing all of us a tremendous disservice in Washington, I feel, our elected officials, because they’re not thinking beyond this next election. And maybe they never have,” Sheridan answered. “But they were better at hiding it, maybe.”

The same combative streak showed up when Sheridan talked Hollywood.

On “The Bill Simmons Podcast,” Sheridan acknowledged baiting critics on purpose while discussing “Landman,” the oil-field drama he debuted in 2024.

The “Landman” creator said he began writing with a simple mission: avoid copying what everyone else was already doing.

“I knew when I started writing [I wanted] to simply not do what everyone else was doing,” Sheridan recalled.

He pointed to Demi Moore’s smaller first-season role on “Landman” as the kind of choice he knew would set critics off before the payoff arrived later.

“The critics are going to come after me. I’m underutilizing [Moore], can’t write for women, all this nonsense. Then I’m going to kill your husband and you’re going to have to run the oil company,” he told Simmons.

“The critics and me … I don’t care what they think, and it annoys the sh*t out of them that I don’t care. I’ll be the first to tell you that there are things that I do that rage-bait them a bit, and this is one of them. F*ck ’em, honestly.”

Sheridan also framed himself as a storyteller for regular viewers, not awards voters.

“You’re not going to win no Emmys with me, but I’m not trying to win Emmys. That’s not my goal,” he remarked.

“My goal is to sit somebody on their couch and move them, make them think, make them laugh, scare the sh*t out of them, excite them. That’s what I want to do, because that’s what I want from a show.”

He also revisited Kevin Costner’s “Yellowstone” exit, two years after the actor’s departure became one of the biggest off-screen dramas surrounding the series.

Costner, 71, played John Dutton before the character was killed off in a staged suicide during the show’s fifth season.

Sheridan said the original plan never required Costner to stay for the full run of the series.

“That was in his contract. In my mind, that’s when his youngest son takes over [on the show]… But the network was so scared of not having Kevin be a part of it, even though Kevin was ready,” Sheridan recounted.

“He was ready to go. He had other things he wanted to do but he stayed on for another two seasons,” he continued.

Sheridan framed the extension as a network decision driven by the size of the hit.

“And that was just because the show was such a behemoth. It was such a huge hit. The notion of giving up a hit before it had run out of juice to squeeze is very foreign to a network. “

Sheridan said Costner eventually reached the point where he needed to move on.

“He’s like, ‘I gotta go do my own thing,’” Sheridan recalled.

“But we originally conceived it together that it was three seasons and then the baton is handed. … Because we had to tread water for a bit there. I think it was pretty evident.”

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