--- title: Gilmore Girls Creators on Stars Hollow Maybe Voting for Trump description: Gilmore Girls creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino discuss whether or not Stars Hollow would have voted for Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/4588154/gilmore-girls-donald-trump/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-01T22:19:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:37.175Z og:title: Gilmore Girls Creators on How Stars Hollow Would View Trump og:description: The answer might shock you og:url: https://time.com/4588154/gilmore-girls-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta89503dcad66b583/6988b05a97cdffb1486aebff/amy-sherman-palladino-daniel-gilmore-girls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Premiere Of Netflix's "Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life" - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Gilmore Girls Creators on How Stars Hollow Would View Trump twitter:description: The answer might shock you twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta89503dcad66b583/6988b05a97cdffb1486aebff/amy-sherman-palladino-daniel-gilmore-girls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Gilmore Girls_ Creators Discuss Whether Stars Hollow Would Have Voted for Donald Trump > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) Jason LaVeris—FilmMagic  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Dec 1, 2016 10:19 PM UTC The [_Gilmore Girls_](http://time.com/4584770/alexis-bledel-ranks-top-four-gilmore-girls-characters/) are known for their abundant pop culture references, many of which reference current events. Case in point? For their recent [Netflix revival _Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life_](http://time.com/4577842/gilmore-girls-a-year-in-the-life-netflix-revival/), our favorite fast-talking ladies and their friends seamlessly dropped [references to _Game of Thrones_, Marie Kondo, Cheryl Strayed’s _Wild_, and man buns](http://time.com/4584293/cheryl-strayed-reese-witherspoon-react-to-gilmore-girls/), showing that in the decade since we’ve seen them last, they’ve kept up with the culture in real time. So it’s only imperative that [Lorelai, Rory, and the quirky cronies of Stars Hollow](http://time.com/4582661/gilmore-girls-ending-last-four-words/) would be not only influenced, but very much invested in the outcome of the 2016 presidential election (die-hard fans of the show will remember that when Rory graduated college, she left to become [a reporter covering Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.](http://time.com/4079535/gilmore-girls-revival-questions-netflix/)) In an interview with [_Vulture_](http://www.vulture.com/2016/11/amy-sherman-palladino-gilmore-girls-last-four-words-and-trump.html), _Gilmore Girls_ husband-wife wonder team of creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and executive producer Daniel Palladino discussed whether or not the residents of Stars Hollow would have voted for president-elect Donald Trump. Daniel Palladino posited that Stars Hollow “probably voted for Trump” because it was a part of “rural America,” while Amy Sherman-Palladino said that could not happen in Stars Hollow. “No, no, no, no, no. There is no evilness in Stars Hollow,” she said. “Do not put that out there, I do not accept that. Absolutely not.” Read the full interview at [_Vulture_](http://www.vulture.com/2016/11/amy-sherman-palladino-gilmore-girls-last-four-words-and-trump.html). ## Transcript Who would Lane vote for for President this election. For President in 2016 I think, and I didn't write Lane I just played her as an actress, but I think Lane would vote for Hillary Clinton. I would not rely on Kirk to make a good decision for who to vote for. And then 45, and then 50, until we find all 59 and take back the square! Yee- haw! I feel like April would be voting for Hillary Clinton. I think that Brian would vote for a third party candidate. [ MUSIC ] I think he would vote for a third party candidate, but I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, no, I know. I think that, but I think that he probably would. I hate President Bush. What? Lorelei Boy. He's stupid, and his face is too tiny for his head, and I just wanna toss him out. That is the leader of our country, young lady. Ignore her. His face is too tiny for his head, what kind of a thing is that to say? Lane and Laura Lai and Rory would have debate watching parties for sure. You know Laura Lai would set up some kind of drinking game Or something for the debates, because it's too much entertainment. But, ultimately, they're going to all vote for Hillary Clinton. That's my two sense. Who's got the least amount of votes? Okay, who's got the longest shot? Okay, I'm going to vote for that guy. I'm running. For what? For whatever it is you are. What are you again? Town Selectman. I'm running for Town Selectman. Whichever of the two candidates you think might make a terrible, terrible President is probably the one that Kirk would vote for. I'm with her, no question. She's got the experience number one, number two I trust her, number three I think she'd really be, she'd be with her all the way. She has a pin that says, I believe she will win. That's Gypsy. I got to interview Barack Obama a couple of weeks ago. He came to speak at campus. Really? Did you ask your buddy Barack whose going to run in 2008? Well, what kind of journalist would I be if I didn't? I would go and vote but I don't know, maybe I'd throw a, maybe Jackson would throw a dart. I don't, [ SOUND ], that guy. Vote. Vote it's serious. Vote I'm not kidding. Vote please, vote. 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