‘Family Ties’ Star Justine Bateman to Megyn Kelly: Trump Win ‘Long Overdue’
Justine Bateman gave her long winded thoughts about how Donald Trump’s election win “sets the stage” for the end of cancel culture on The Megyn Kelly Show.
The former Family Ties star and Jason Bateman’s sister told Kelly that she feels “great” about the future now that Trump has won.
“It was long overdue,” she said on the show, “just that mob mentality momentum that’s necessary to maintain an atmosphere where your job can be destroyed, your social standing can be destroyed, your children’s lives at their school can be destroyed. That momentum ended with the very large national pull of what people want, which is our national presidential election, kind of set the stage for that being over.”
Bateman expressed that sentiment in a post soon after the election, when she wrote to X that she was “Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years,” following the election results. What exactly Bateman wishes to say that would get her “canceled,” remains unclear, but she did seem to clarify that she was not aligning herself with the right.
“For anyone in the press trying to imply I’m on your ‘team,’ I do not care about political teams,” she also tweeted, in a rant about “Woke Oppression.” She continued her opining about this so-called “oppression” on Kelly’s show, which she feels “started with the #MeToo movement.”
“To say that people can’t say, can’t ask questions, can’t say what they think, can’t ask that there be some research on this or that. It was absolutely awful,” she continued to Kelly. “It was just like revenge of the hall monitors. It was the fucking Debbie Downers, the Party Poopers.”
Bateman’s brother Jason, however, has a different take on the election results, as an outspoken proponent of a Trump-less era for America. He hosted Joe Biden on his Smartless podcast in 2022, and narrated a comical ad for Kamala Harris via The Daily Show in August, in which he said that Trump couldn’t “finish a sentence” or refrain from “starting civil wars.” In the ad, he called both Trump and Biden’s terms “a sadistic circus in the eighth circuit of hell,” however, on account of Biden’s age.
As for where the siblings’ relationship stands amid their political differences, neither Bateman has shared much. Prior to Trump’s election either time, during a 2015 interview on WTF With Marc Maron, Bateman said he and his sister’s dynamic is “not traditional,” and “There isn’t that obligatory draw to call every Sunday, or visit where you live now.”
