MAGA TV host rants about ‘woke’ and ‘racist’ Wicked before calling Ariana Grande ‘Hispanic’

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy MAGA media personality Gina Loudon claimed that blockbuster movie Wicked is “offensive” and “racist” against white people, shortly before incorrectly describing its star Ariana Grande as “obviously Hispanic.” Loudon, who was a member of the 2020 Donald Trump campaign’s media advisory board and is a patron at Mar-a-Lago, said she was “kind of sick” of Hollywood storylines that portrayed white people as “dumb and evil.” She discussed the movie, in which Grande appears opposite Cynthia Erivo, on Tuesday during a show on the far-right cable network Real America’s Voice. open image in gallery Loudon incorrectly described Wicked star Ariana Grande as ‘Hispanic’ shortly after calling the movie ‘racist’ against white people “The racism and the racial appropriation I just thought was offensive, frankly. All white people aren’t dumb and evil, and I just get kind of sick of that storyline and I feel like that’s where it started, and it kind of lost me there and it was three hours long.” Singer-songwriter Grande, 31, is in fact Italian-American on both sides of her family, not Latino or Hispanic. open image in gallery Gina Loudon made the remarks during a show on conservative network Real America’s Voice on Tuesday As well as her platform as a conservative media commentator and Trump advisor, Loudon was also co-chair of Women for Trump 2020.