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If Ellen and Dubya can pull it off, maybe there’s hope for the rest of us.
‘I’m friends with George Bush. In fact, I’m friends with a lot of people who don’t share the same beliefs that I have. Just because I don’t agree with someone on everything doesn’t mean that I’m not going to be friends with them. When I say be kind to one another, I don’t mean only the people that think the same way that you do. I mean be kind to everyone.”
Ellen DeGeneres, a self-proclaimed “gay Hollywood liberal,” was responding to the firestorm that erupted across social media when she was spotted sitting next to former president George W. Bush at a Dallas Cowboys game on Sunday.
“People were upset,” she said in a segment slated to air on Tuesday. “A lot of people were mad, and they did what people do when they’re mad: They tweet.”
Indeed they do. Twitter TWTR, -1.57% was filled with tweets like this:
DeGeneres explained that she and her wife, Portia de Rossi, were invited to the game by Charlotte Jones, the daughter of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
Here’s her full take on the backlash:
Last weekend wasn’t the first time the unlikely duo popped up on TV screens together. Here they are on DeGeneres’s show back in 2017:
