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Ken Jennings<\/a>‘ political leanings are no mystery. But the candor with which he evinces them still has the ability to surprise.<\/p>\n The Jeopardy<\/em><\/a> host joined the tide of citizens rising up against Donald Trump<\/a>‘s presidential administration in the wake of recent controversial events \u2014 from the abduction of sitting Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro in a raid that killed as many as 75<\/a>, to an ICE agent shooting a Minnesota woman, who Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem hastily labeled a domestic terrorist<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The ‘prosecute the former regime at every level’ candidate has my vote in 2028,” Jennings wrote on the social media site Bluesky in a post<\/a> shared Wednesday. “America is always like ‘ok but the NEXT regime change will work,’ like when I ‘cut out carbs’ briefly every January,'” read another<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a subsequent post<\/a>, Jennings noted that it had “been a dark week, but I just saw someone reply to an ‘Abolish ICE’ post with a scoldy Bluesky ‘Uh, try abolish DHS’ and that joy will sustain me for a little while.”<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Entertainment Weekly <\/em>has reached out to the White House for comment.<\/p>\n Jennings, who became a pop culture sensation after winning more than $2.5 million across a 75-day winning streak on Jeopardy <\/em>in 2004, took over as permanent host for Alex Trebek after he died in 2020.<\/p>\n He was hand picked by Jeopardy <\/em>producers<\/a> to succeed Trebek before his passing, and even got the blessing<\/a> of the longtime host’s widow, Jean Trebek. But Jennings’ liberal attitude toward the airing of his opinions, regardless of their content, almost cost him the job.<\/p>\n A 2021 Wall Street Journal <\/em>report found that producers ultimately opted to cycle between guest hosts including Mayim Bialik, Anderson Cooper, and Katie Couric due to a series of resurfaced social media posts from Jennings. “Nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair,” read one, while another deleted post mocked Trump’s youngest son, Barron, for apparently crying at the sight of Kathy Griffin holding a mock rendering of his father’s decapitated head.<\/p>\n “Sometimes I said dumb things in a dumb way and I want to apologize to people who were (rightfully!) offended,” he said in an eventual apology<\/a>. “It wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone, but that doesn’t matter: I screwed up.”<\/p>\n