Shonda Rhimes does not plan on bending the knee to President Donald Trump, but warned that creatives and executives in the entertainment industry have self-censored their storytelling because of him.<\/p>\n
The television titan behind \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d and \u201cBridgerton\u201d told an audience at the Edinburgh TV Festival that, though she had no comment to offer on Paramount and Disney settling with the president, she has felt a shift in the industry.<\/p>\n
More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cIt definitely feels that way to a lot of people, that there is self-censoring going on,\u201d she told Mishal Husain, former BBC Radio 4\u00a0\u201cToday\u201d\u00a0show host.<\/p>\n Rhimes was one of the last creatives left on the Kennedy Center board ahead of Trump\u2019s self-appointment as chair. The Shondaland creative said she remained on the board to fulfill her responsibilities as treasurer.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was my duty as treasurer of the Kennedy Center to ask all the smart fiduciary questions while they were making that transition,\u201d she said, per Deadline.<\/p>\n The \u201cScandal\u201d creator was also notably one of the first creatives to leave on her own accord from her involvement with the Kennedy Center, as many were simply kicked out and replaced by Trump loyalists. Rhimes noted that with Trump at the helm, the board and the Center just did not feel the same.<\/p>\n \u201cBut once that transition was made, I literally was the only person left who was an artist, who was of the old regime of the Kennedy Center,\u201d she said. \u201cTherefore, in my mind, it wasn\u2019t a board anymore. It\u2019s certainly not the board with the same mission as when I came in.\u201d<\/p>\n As Rhimes navigates Trump-era television, she told the Edinburgh audience that she still has the power to \u201cmake the shows that matter to me\u201d and has no plans on reigning that in. She added that she has been off X, formerly Twitter, since 2022 and tunes out the hate and Internet buzz that any of her shows receive.<\/p>\n Rhimes was the first recipient of the Edinburgh Fellowship, awarded to her during the 50th anniversary of the Edinburgh TV Festival on Wednesday. The fellowship honored her significant cultural and creative impact in the world of television. Rhimes sat down for a 30-minute career retrospective and provided insights into where she thinks the industry is moving.<\/p>\n The post Shonda Rhimes Says Self-Censorship Is Palpable as Networks Cower to Trump<\/a> appeared first on TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shonda Rhimes does not plan on bending the knee to President Donald Trump, but warned that creatives and executives in the entertainment industry have self-censored their storytelling because of him. The television titan behind \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d and \u201cBridgerton\u201d told an audience at the Edinburgh TV Festival that, though she had no comment to offer on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1956684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[22389,347726,305028,319835,312609,351254,351253],"class_list":["post-1972334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-donald-trump","tag-edinburgh-tv-festival","tag-entertainment-industry","tag-greys-anatomy","tag-kennedy-center","tag-mishal-husain","tag-shonda-rhimes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ryan-Reynolds-Dwayne-Johnson-Tessa-Thompson-and-More-Set-Panels.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/div>\n