{"id":2614222,"date":"2026-06-15T12:15:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/julia-roberts-tells-audience-to-keep-breathing-in-response-to-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:16:37","slug":"julia-roberts-tells-audience-to-keep-breathing-in-response-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/julia-roberts-tells-audience-to-keep-breathing-in-response-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Roberts tells audience to keep breathing in response to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjulia-roberts-tells-audience-to-keep-breathing-in-response-to-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2614222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actress Julia Roberts addressed her audience at the &#8220;Rise up, Sing Out&#8221; concert supporting the First Amendment, encouraging people to &#8220;breathe in all that hope&#8221; and &#8220;breathe out all that fear,&#8221; emphasizing the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >facing challenging news<\/a> to prevail. She appeared with other Hollywood celebrities at the event in New York City, which was organized in opposition to President Donald Trump&#8217;s UFC Fight at the white House, and was hosted by the Committee for the first Amendment, with anti-Trump organizations as partners.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts wore a T-shirt featuring Jane Fonda, who relaunched the committee in 2022, originally founded in 1947 by Fonda\u2019s father, Henry Fonda, in response to political blacklists. Fonda, who had previously been labeled &#8220;Hanoi Jane,&#8221; co-hosted the event alongside Robert De Niro, who made a humorous remark about ticket availability for the event.<\/p>\n<p>During her speech, Roberts highlighted Fonda&#8217;s activism, and Fonda appeared as a master of ceremonies. The event also featured comments from Robert De Niro, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/businessman-kevin-oleary-defends-free-speech-online\/\" title=\"Businessman Kevin O\u2019Leary defends free ... online\">defended free speech<\/a> and criticized political statements, including Trump&#8217;s recent remarks about Americans\u2019 financial circumstances and his stance on ending the Iran war, with De Niro responding directly with blunt language. The gathering underscored support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saudi-court-jails-womens-rights-activist-posing-challenge-for-biden\/\" title=\"Saudi court jails women\u2019s rights activist, posing challenge for Biden\">free expression<\/a> and opposition to political censorship and blacklisting.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actress Julia Roberts told her audience to \u201cbreathe in all that hope\u201d and \u201cbreathe out all that fear\u201d in an appearance at the \u201cRise Up, Sing Out\u201d concert for the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/first-amendment\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"881\">First Amendment<\/a> on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe all feel like \u2018I can\u2019t turn the news on, I don\u2019t want to hear it,\u2019\u201d the <em>Pretty Woman<\/em> star said. \u201cBut we have to hear it; we have to face it. But if we keep inhaling and exhaling, we will prevail.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4608608\/dana-white-white-house-ufc-fight-never-again\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Dana White on White House fight: \u2018We\u2019ll never do this again\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4608502\/rodeo-250-attraction-great-american-state-fair\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Rodeo 250 attraction announced for Great American State Fair<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4607206\/trump-turning-80-celebrates-age-ufc-birthday\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump, turning 80, celebrates his age with big UFC birthday bash<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roberts appeared alongside several other <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hollywood\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"133\">Hollywood<\/a> celebrities at the New York City <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/Uxap5XA61ng?si=t56S_EtLR7VrSylf&#038;t=5607\">event<\/a>, which counterprogrammed President Donald Trump\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4608327\/trump-mixes-sports-patriotism-ufc-freedom-250\/\">Freedom 250<\/a> UFC match at the White House. The Committee for the First Amendment hosted the event, with the anti-Trump advocacy organizations No Kings and Indivisible listed as partners.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roberts wore a T-shirt under her blazer with Jane Fonda\u2019s face on it. Fonda, who was a master of ceremonies at the event, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/3837625\/jane-fonda-committee-first-amendment-stakes-too-high\/\">relaunched<\/a> the Committee for the First Amendment last year. Her father, the quintessential Hollywood everyman Henry Fonda, founded the committee in 1947 in response to the rise of political blacklists in his industry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The younger Fonda gained the moniker \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/2419474\/former-pow-tries-to-forgive-and-forget-jane-fonda\/\">Hanoi Jane<\/a>\u201d after posing for photographs atop a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft cannon in 1972. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roberts and Fonda were joined onstage by two-time Oscar winner Robert De Niro. \u201cWelcome to all of you who couldn\u2019t get tickets to the White House cage fight,\u201d De Niro quipped.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4608392\/who-attended-ufc-freedom-250-cage-match\/\"><strong>HERE\u2019S WHO ATTENDED THE UFC FREEDOM 250 CAGE MATCH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I hear something I don\u2019t like, I use my own free speech to respond,\u201d the longtime Martin Scorsese collaborator said. \u201cLet me give you an example: when I hear Trump say, as he did a few days ago, \u2018I don\u2019t care about Americans\u2019 financial situation, not even a little bit,\u2019 I say, \u2018Shut the f*** up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De Niro\u2019s retort came in response to a May <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4565100\/trump-financial-situation-not-motivating-talks-end-iran-war\/\">statement<\/a> in which Trump said that the \u201cfinancial situation\u201d of voters was not motivating him to end the war with Iran.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Roberts urged hope and courage at First Amendment concert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4301,"featured_media":2614223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-collage-f82vhrdmd-1781537859070-e1781539307492.jpg?1781524900&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[6150,44094,35390,42751,3634],"class_list":["post-2614222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-celebrity","tag-julia-roberts","tag-mental-health","tag-public-response","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-collage-f82vhrdmd-1781537859070-e1781539307492.jpg?1781524900&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2614222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2614226,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2614222\/revisions\/2614226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2614223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2614222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2614222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2614222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}