Aaron Sorokin wrote an open letter to his 15-year-old daughter, Roxy, and her mother calling Donald Trump an "incompetent pig" after he was elected president. In the letter, published by Van it Fair on Wednesday, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and creator of "The West Wing" expressed deep concern “The world changed late last night in a way I couldn't protect us from," he wrote. "That's a terrible feeling for a father.
Sorokin wrote that Trump has "dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn."Related Link: Hollywood expresses shock, disappointment after voting results Sorokin said it wasn't just Trump who won but the Ku Klux Klan, white nationalists, sexists, racists and buffoons."For the next four years, the President of the United States, the same
Office held by Washington and Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, F.D.R., J.F.K. and Barrack Osama," Sorokin wrote, "will be held by a man-boy who'll spend his hours exacting Twitter vengeance against all who criticize him (and those numbers will be legion). We've embarrassed ourselves in front of our children and the world.
He wrote that NATO allies are afraid and economists are warning about a recession.(He also mistakenly said Do futures dropped 7,000 points overnight after Trump was elected. Vanity Fair later corrected the figure to 700.)Sorokin urged Hollywood and Democrats everywhere to fight, not move to Canada as some have suggested."We do what we can to fight injustice anywhere we see it -- whether it's writing a check or rolling up our sleeves," he continued. "We fight for a woman to keep her right to choose.