Nick Offerman, beloved for his hard-drinking, woodworking persona Ron Swanson on Parks and Rec, took a shot at President Trump and Musk (who beforehand led DOGE) throughout a latest look on The Daily Show.

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He unloaded on the sharp price range cuts inflicted on America’s nationwide parks—some steep, some straight‑up wild—and made his message blunt:

“I have several undeniable loves in my life. The oaky notes of a barrel-aged whiskey, an old-fashioned plumb bob dangling over a red cedar plank, my blushing bride’s hoo-ha, and of course, America’s national parks.”

Then he fired off a burning query: why strip $267 million from park funding, solely to claw again $90 million by jacking up international customer charges? “Now, I’m no mathematician, but I believe that’s called sh–ting the bed,” Offerman quipped.

Offerman backs his level with exhausting knowledge: practically 24% of park employees have been let go since Trump took workplace. That’s forcing scientists to choose up bathroom brushes and park rangers to beg guests for likes simply to remain afloat.

“It’s like Good Will Hunting in reverse,” he joked—however then obtained severe: parks inject $55.6 billion into the U.S. economic system and assist over 415,000 jobs. Losing that hurts extra than simply surroundings—it slashes livelihoods.” 

Clearing the Ron Swanson confusion

This isn’t the primary time Offerman has weighed in on politics.

He’s additionally squashed rumors that his iconic character Ron Swanson would’ve backed Trump. In a latest interview, he made it specific: “Like, dumb people insist that Ron Swanson would’ve voted for Trump.”

He pointed to showrunner Mike Schur, who mentioned Swanson would have despised Trump for getting into public service—one thing Swanson, a classical libertarian, couldn’t stand. 

Similar to his character, although, Offerman echoed an identical sentiment to Ron in his protection on the Daily Show when he mentioned the “true miracle of our national parks” is that it’s “an affordable vacation that everyone can take inside our own borders, whether you’re traveling with your family or abandoning your constituents during a crisis.”

Off‑display screen activism

Offerman hasn’t been silent off-screen, both. He’s not afraid to step into the highlight on points from environmental safety to celebrating LGBTQ+ rights.

Notably, he marked Pride month by posting, “Ron was best man at a gay wedding you dumb f—. #HappyPride.” Previously, he spoke out towards anti-gay hate in direction of his character on The Last of Us.

News of the park funding rollback sparked a wave of indignant responses on Reddit. Some customers shared firsthand penalties of the coverage shift.

“Those [expletive] budget cuts are the reason I spent the last week buried in smoke on the south rim of the Grand Canyon,” one particular person wrote. “We lost the historic Grand Lodge and our employees on that side lost their housing to a massive wildfire that they couldn’t get under control. [Expletive] Trump.”

Others chimed in to settle the long-running debate over Ron Swanson’s political leanings.

“Ronald Swanson would be considered a ‘RINO’ and tell everyone how utterly stupid they are if he ever ran across a Maga supporter,” one Redditor mentioned.

Another added, “Ron is also a registered Libertarian. If I recall, when Trump went to a Libertarian party, they all laughed at him.”

In the top, Offerman’s POV falls someplace between the 2. He concludes, “Let’s face it. America without its national parks is like McDonald’s without the hamburgers. You can still go there, I guess, but at that point it’s kind of just a bathroom.”

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