This past Friday night Donald Trump rolled out his extremely controversial Muslim ban which subsequently caused a wave of impromptu protests all over the country throughout the weekend. While one would think Trump would make his best pitch to the general public about the plan, he reportedly had more pressing matters, as he spent part of Sunday afternoon holding a screening of Finding Dory.
If you really wanted to, you could point out that there have been lots of protests lately, but irrespective of that it still makes for an absurd visual to imagine the most powerful person in the world watching a kids movie about cartoon fish as a large chunk of the country angrily reacts to his directive.
On Tuesday afternoon Ellen DeGeneres, the voice of the main fish in Finding Dory, took to her show to openly hope that the movie's plot got through to the president. If you don't want spoilers, don't continue reading (oh, and also don't click 'play' on the video above—probably should've said that earlier). DeGeneres explained how the flick could apply to a certain someone's certain overreaching executive order.
"Dory lives in Australia, and these are her parents, and they live in America," DeGeneres told her way-too-quick-to-applaud-everything-she-says audience. "And I don’t know what religion they are, but her dad sounds a little Jewish. It doesn’t matter. Dory arrives in America with her friends Marlin and Nemo. She ends up at the Marine Life Institute behind a large wall. They all have to get over the wall, and you won’t believe it, but that wall has almost no effect in keeping them out.”
In case that explanation was somehow too understated, DeGeneres continued with even less subtlety. "Even though Dory gets into America, she ends up separated from her family, but the other animals help Dory. Animals that don’t even need her. Animals that don’t have anything in common with her. They help her, even though they’re completely different colors. Because that’s what you do when you see someone in need—you help them.
"So that is what I hope everyone who’s watching Finding Dory has learned. Tune in next week when I explain women’s rights, talking about the movie Mr. Wrong.”
DeGeneres isn't nearly the only celebrity who's spoken out against the ban, as you probably already learned when you signed onto social media this past weekend:
While it seems unlikely that most presidents would be tuning into a daytime broadcast, as we've seen in the past, Trump is most certainly not above just sitting around and tweeting about what he sees on TV. If he doesn't tweet about it by tomorrow, though, we think it's fair to assume he missed it.
