Tennis legend Martina Navratilova is fronting a new advert blasting Donald Trump’s “authoritarian presidency” and calling on Americans to “speak up.” In the video for advocacy group Home of the Brave, the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion, who grew up in communist Czechoslovakia before moving to the U.S., says, “I defected from a totalitarian regime, and like hell am I going to be cowed again. I’m so proud to be an American, but I’m embarrassed for what Trump is doing to our country.” Navratilova, 69, adds, “I am p----d as hell about people capitulating to Trump. This was the freest country in the world when I defected in 1975. If this was the situation for me now, I would definitely not choose to live here.”
<video id="zG5PgVCS" poster="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/zG5PgVCS/poster.jpg"><source src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/zG5PgVCS.mp4" type="video/mp4"></source></video>The group says the ad is part of a campaign highlighting harms it attributes to Trump’s second term and features first-person testimonies from ordinary Americans, alongside other high-profile figures speaking out.
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