After keeping it incognito for several months following his ex-wife accusing him of being a philanderer who simply pays lip-service to feminist causes, director Joss Whedon is having another Twitter tantrum. While not nearly as bad as him joking about raping House Speaker Paul Ryan with a rhino’s horn, it’s still signature Whedon.
Whedon’s tantrum came after the GOP passed the tax bill, which President Trump signed into law on Friday as his Christmas present to America. First, the “Buffy” creator hit at House Speaker Paul Ryan, saying he had “blood on his hands.”
Whedon also lamented on how President Trump is seeking to “expunge Obama’s legacy.”
“History will remember President Obama as better than he was because of YOU, @realDonaldTrump,” Whedon tweeted at the president. “Your desperate need to expunge Obama’s legacy has helped ensure it. This makes me laugh when little else does.”
Then he got nostalgic, saying how he now misses King George III, from whom America declared independence over high taxation:
Whedon projected himself as the model of “male feminism,” and has been awarded with several feminist accolades. He also promotes Planned Parenthood as a salvific institution. That “male feminist” image was shattered earlier this year when his ex-wife, Kai Cole, publicly accused him of sleeping around with multiple women and admitting to it after the fact.
“I want to let women know that he is not who he pretends to be,” she said. “I want the people who worship him to know he is human, and the organizations giving him awards for his feminist work, to think twice in the future about honoring a man who does not practice what he preaches.”