Johnny Depp is Another Washed Up Celebrity Trying to Virtue Signal His Way Out of Irrelevancy

Actor becomes latest ageing has-been to spew violent rhetoric

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
June 23, 2017

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Johnny Depp’s “joke” about assassinating Donald Trump represents yet another lame attempt by a washed-up celebrity to virtue-signal their way out of onrushing obscurity.

“When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?” Depp asked a crowd at the Glastonbury festival in England. “I want to clarify: I’m not an actor. I lie for a living. However, it’s been awhile, and maybe it’s time.”

Depp is the 16th celebrity in recent months to have envisaged physical harm amongst Donald Trump. His comments were made just over a week after a crazed left-wing terrorist tried to massacre Republican lawmakers in Alexandria.

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the spectacle was the fact that the (almost exclusively left-wing) audience cheered and applauded.

Conservatives have been debating whether or not to call for a boycott of Johnny Depp’s movies, but it appears anyone other than children and their bored parents have been avoiding them for the last 10 years anyway.

His latest blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, was a ratings flop, achieving just 29% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Although his violent rhetoric is a reflection of how the left is forced to resort to hysteria because it has no rational arguments, Johnny Depp assassinating Trump is about as likely as the actor sobering up and becoming vaguely relevant again beyond lame Pirate films for kids.

Not very.

Depp appears to not understand that if he wants to be like John Wilkes Booth, he will have to attract people to come to the theatre in the first…

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