friend whose refugee buddy s dad was turned away because of president trump s executive order. so i posted a screen shot of what he had texted me and i said this is unamerican. this is not who we are and one of the comments on that was, well, you shouldn t be in this country. and i love where i was born and raised and i feel like i m not the only one. so i set up a crowd rise page that said in this dude s name, let s see if we can raise 2500 bucks for syrian refugees because i feel like we re better than that. and then i did nothing after that. the thing just took off. it s actually up to almost $700,000 tonight. it s still taking donations. if anyone is inclined, go to krout crowdrise/kal. folks know, i ve gotten e-mails from soldier friends of mine overseas who i ve met on osu tours. people are getting together and
states, 44 countries, everybody has a voice. you have people participating in the women s march, people congregating at airports to support the folks being detained over the weekend. it s a beautiful thing an an opportunity for everybody, whether a celebrity or not, frankly, to raise your voice and make sure we don t stand for what s happening in our names right now. kal, what s your message out there to, as you said eloquently earlier, people who look like me who say, wow, they hate me in this country, they really do believe i m a terrorist and that s it, just a function of my faith. that s it. i don t care how they word it. that s what s going on. what do you say to them? well, it s not true. that s not the america i grew up in and not the america we have. if you look at mentioning kind of this donor page alone, most of the donations were small dollar donations from, like i said, all 50 states. these are americans coming out and saying i want to show with ten bucks that this is
good evening fellow members and everyone at home and everyone at airports that belong in my america. this immigrant ban is a blemish and un-american. this story is about what happens when we put our differences aside and we come together as a human race. a lot of people are saying right now that actors shouldn t express their opinions when it comes to politics. but the truth is actors are activists no matter what because we embody the work and humanity of all people. kal, what do you think about that? does it help or hurt when privileged celebrities take a stand on these awards shows? i don t know. a reality tv celebrity tweeted about a supreme court pick. i feel like that conversation has shifted significantly now that we have one as a president. but i think everybody should speak out. if you just go back to as an actor, setting up this crowd rise page for syrian refugees, we have people from all 50
hillary clinton he was actually going business in saudi arabia too. it is what the clintons are doing. exactly. i want to say i think there is double standard americans see. it is a hype threat kal. if this same scene unfolded in 2008 with president-elect obama do you believe this cast, would they have lectured him at the time he was against same sex marriage. would they have lectured him in the same manner may lectured mr. pence? i think it s part of why we won this election. let s take a look at started night live also got under donald trump s skin this weekend. this is part of the opens sketch with alec baldwin as trump.
of trump supporters racist, sexist, home foebs, irredeemable. which of those two quotes has cnn used more often? you are con florida stating the rigging of an election with media bias and that is something let me finish now because i ve been fair to you. that s something that donald trump has done without being challenged on it. you reference in your current piece the clinton cable. i assume that s a shot at cnn with regard to the way in which we covered trump s statement in the debate the other night. let me show you the wall street journal. the wall street journal is not clinton cable. here is what the journal, a republican or kal said that again is mr. trump s ego talking, a man who doesn t like to lose refusing to take responsibility for his campaign, voters on the right and left want to have faith in the elect torl system. that s my argument. you re setting the stage for people to wake up on november 9 and question the legit masy if it s hillary and if she s won