In the midst of a politically, socially and medically tumultuous 2020, 2016 seems like a much simpler time. So you couldn’t blame one Twitter user from doing some reminiscing. Rihanna fan @chillarystan tweeted two iconic photos of RiRi last week, one in which she’s wearing a shirt with then-Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on it. The second features the singer wearing a shirt with the first photo on it. “I’m with her. And her,” the crewneck reads. “i will never forget when @rihanna wore a shirt of herself wearing a hillary clinton shirt,” the Twitter user captioned the series of snaps, and the politician herself couldn’t agree more. “Me neither,” Clinton replied. See below. The meta shirt RiRi wore was designed by...
In 2016, Hillary Clinton became the first female presidential candidate to be backed by a major US party. Gender was not surprisingly a hot button issue throughout the Clinton vs. Donald Trump election, dividing households nationwide, but longtime film director Paul Feig believes that the vitriol against Clinton had a substantial impact beyond politics: he blames the anti-Hillary movement for the backlash he received for his female-led Ghostbusters reboot. Speaking on Jess Cagle’s SiriusXM show last week, Feig said, “I think some really brilliant author, researcher or sociologist, needs to write a book about 2016 and how intertwined we were with Hillary [Clinton] and the anti-Hillary movement.” Officially titled Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, the reboot hit theaters Summer 2016, just ...