Right After Tim Allen’s Trump Support Goes Viral, ABC Makes Shocking Move
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| President Donald Trump (left), actor and comedian Tim Allen (right) |
It’s no secret that proudly proclaiming your support for conservative
values or Republican politicians can cost you your career in Hollywood.
However, what ABC just did in the wake of actor Tim Allen’s support for
President Donald Trump going viral is quite shocking.
Allen, who describes himself as a fiscal conservative, infamously spoke
out against Hollywood liberals who are notorious for bullying Trump
supporters. Unfortunately, he has not walked away unscathed after taking
that stance.
ABC confirmed on Wednesday that Last Man Standing,
which stars Allen as the politically conservative and Christian
character Mike Baxter, is being canceled despite showing strong ratings.
Variety
reports, “Last Man Standing was ahead of the curve in the cultural
sense as Allen played a conservative-minded patriarch who runs a
sporting goods store and opines about the modern world, including
political topics such as Obamacare and environmental policy.”
It was considered the perfect sitcom for the Trump era, hitting ratings highs in its sixth season. But that didn’t save Last Man Standing from a cancellation today.
ABC has opted not to renew the longtime Friday 8 PM anchor for Season 7 despite the fact that the blue-collar sitcom was ABC’s second most watched comedy this season with 8.1 million viewers in Live +7, only behind flagship Modern Family (8.7 million). It was the third most watched ABC scripted series overall behind Grey’s Anatomy and Modern Family. [Source: Deadline]
Fans of Allen’s show have already taken to social media to express their contempt over the cancellation of Last Man Standing.
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live in March, Allen seemed to
foreshadow his own demise, saying, “I’m not kidding. You gotta be real
careful around here. You get beat up if you don’t believe what everybody
believes,” he continued.
“This is like ’30s Germany,” Allen added. “I don’t know what
happened. If you’re not part of the group, ‘You know what we believe is
right,’ I go, ‘Well, I might have a problem with that.’ I’m a comedian, I
like going [off] on both sides.”
