Jane Fonda and Julia Roberts Just Tried to Fight Trump With Drag Queens and Deep Breathing and Lost Immediately

Trump just threw the greatest party in White House history.

While tens of thousands roared on the South Lawn, Hollywood's elite quietly rented a theater in New York to fight back.

What they did inside that theater is something you need to see to believe.

Drag Queens, Deep Breathing, and Julia Roberts Promise Victory

The event was called "Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment."

Jane Fonda headlined it.

Bette Midler brought her daughter.

Joy Reid showed up.

Julia Roberts stepped to the microphone and delivered her battle plan for defeating Donald Trump.

"If we keep inhaling and exhaling," Roberts told the crowd, "we will prevail."

She offered no evidence to support that theory.

Not a poll.

Not a court ruling.

Not a single Trump policy that had been reversed.

She offered controlled breathing as the resistance strategy of the American left in 2026.

Then came the drag queens.

The event featured performers in drag, celebrities demonstrating their deep breathing techniques, and a parade of the most reliably outraged faces in entertainment taking turns at the microphone to explain why they were winning.

Patti Smith performed.

Rufus Wainwright performed.

Fonda herself told the crowd the government was "routinely violating the First Amendment to silence artists" – at the concert she organized, performed at, and livestreamed freely to the entire country, without anyone stopping her.

The Resistance Has Been Reduced to a Yoga Class

Understand what Jane Fonda actually built here.

She revived a committee her father, Henry Fonda, created in 1947 when Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Danny Kaye stood up against the Hollywood blacklist.

Those were serious people facing a serious fight.

This version held a singalong.

Fonda relaunched the committee last October, citing what she called a rising tide of authoritarian practices and attacks on free speech.

Last night she followed that up with drag queens and group breathing exercises.

That gap – from Bogart and Bacall to a theater of celebrities inhaling together – tells you exactly what happened to the American left.

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That is not a movement.

That is a legacy being slowly composted by people who think deep breathing is a political strategy.

Henry Fonda's committee once put Hollywood's biggest names on the line against a genuine government blacklist.

His daughter's version couldn't fill a mid-size Broadway house to protest a UFC fight.

They Told You They Were Winning

Meanwhile, on the South Lawn, UFC Freedom 250 delivered one of the most celebrated nights in the sport's history.

All seven fights ended by stoppage.

Justin Gaethje stopped two-division champion Ilia Topuria to become undisputed lightweight champion.

Fighter Mauricio Ruffy quoted John 3:16 after his win and told the crowd Jesus had saved his life.

Josh Hokit got a knockout and a standing ovation.

Trump and Dana White walked out of the Oval Office together on live television.

The left's answer to all of it was a theater full of celebrities, a breathing exercise, and Julia Roberts.

They just didn't mention that winning apparently requires drag queens and a firm commitment to continued respiration.

Sources:

• Simon Kent, "Video: Drag Queens, Deep Breathing, Singing to Fight 'Fascists' Highlight Jane Fonda's Protest Event Countering Trump's UFC Freedom 250 White House Bash," Breitbart, June 15, 2026.
• E. Spencer Kyte, "UFC Freedom 250 Live Results, Highlights and Post-Fight Interviews From the White House," UFC.com, June 15, 2026.
• Staff, "Jane Fonda Decries First Amendment Violations at Rise Up Sing Out Event," The Hollywood Reporter, June 15, 2026.