{"id":583688,"date":"2017-02-02T06:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T12:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=583688"},"modified":"2017-02-03T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:48:34","slug":"matthew-mcconaughey-time-to-embrace-fact-trump-is-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=583688","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey: Time to Embrace Fact Trump is President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/mm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/02\/mm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-583701\" \/><\/a>HOLLYWOOD (AP) &#8211; Matthew McConaughey says it&#8217;s time for Hollywood to &#8220;embrace and shake hands&#8221; with the fact that Donald Trump is president. The Oscar winner, formerly from Longview, tells the BBC that Trump&#8217;s rise to power is &#8220;as divisive of an inauguration&#8221; as there has ever been. When asked by interviewer Andrew Marr if Hollywood&#8217;s elite should give Trump a break, McConaughey replied, &#8220;They don&#8217;t have a choice now, he&#8217;s our president.&#8221; McConaughey is promoting his new film, &#8220;Gold,&#8221; in which he plays a businessman who discovers the precious metal in the jungles of Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLLYWOOD (AP) &#8211; Matthew McConaughey says it&#8217;s time for Hollywood to &#8220;embrace and shake hands&#8221; with the fact that Donald Trump is president. The Oscar winner, formerly from Longview, tells the BBC that Trump&#8217;s rise to power is &#8220;as divisive of an inauguration&#8221; as there has ever been. When asked by interviewer Andrew Marr if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=583688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matthew McConaughey: Time to Embrace Fact Trump is President<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":583701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 16:05:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583702,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583688\/revisions\/583702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/583701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}