--- title: Rose McGowan Says Donald Trump Coverage Poisons Humanity description: Actress Rose McGowan, who has been an active anti-Donald Trump voice on Twitter sent us the following note. canonical: https://time.com/4447486/rose-mcgowan-donald-trump/ author: IDEAS Desk article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-10T21:54:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:54:10.741Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Rose McGowan Says Donald Trump Coverage Is Poisoning Humanity og:description: She blames Donald Trump and the media for stressing out America og:url: https://time.com/4447486/rose-mcgowan-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c607af1a73be2d4/6988a1ec0b72e332056ea9d9/rose.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Actress Rose McGowan attends the New York Academy of Art's Tribeca Ball 2016 at the NY Academy of Art in New York City on April 4, 2016. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rose McGowan Says Donald Trump Coverage Is Poisoning Humanity twitter:description: She blames Donald Trump and the media for stressing out America twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c607af1a73be2d4/6988a1ec0b72e332056ea9d9/rose.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rose McGowan Says Donald Trump Coverage Is Poisoning Humanity by [IDEAS Desk](https://time.com/author/ideas-desk/) ## IDEAS Desk Aug 10, 2016 9:54 PM UTC  Actress Rose McGowan attends the New York Academy of Art's Tribeca Ball 2016 at the NY Academy of Art in New York City on April 4, 2016. Actress Rose McGowan attends the New York Academy of Art's Tribeca Ball 2016 at the NY Academy of Art in New York City on April 4, 2016.Mark Sagliocco—Getty Images by [IDEAS Desk](https://time.com/author/ideas-desk/) ## IDEAS Desk Aug 10, 2016 9:54 PM UTC Actress Rose McGowan, who has been an active anti-Donald Trump voice, wrote an open letter addressed to the media Wednesday. This follows an [open letter](http://www.inquisitr.com/3359415/twitter-war-scott-baio-and-rose-mcgowan-have-online-battle-over-politics/) she wrote to a Trump supporter. In her most recent note, she holds the media accountable for its role in supporting the rise of Trump. --- > “” --- She also offers a simple solution: Stop covering him. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4447486/rose-mcgowan-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4447486/rose-mcgowan-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Rose McGowan Says Donald Trump Coverage Is Poisoning Humanity","datePublished":"2016-08-10T21:54:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:54:10.741Z","description":"She blames Donald Trump and the media for stressing out America","url":"https://time.com/4447486/rose-mcgowan-donald-trump/","keywords":["politics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c607af1a73be2d4/6988a1ec0b72e332056ea9d9/rose.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"IDEAS Desk","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ideas-desk/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6c607af1a73be2d4/6988a1ec0b72e332056ea9d9/rose.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Actress Rose McGowan attends the New York Academy of Art's Tribeca Ball 2016 at the NY Academy of Art in New York City on April 4, 2016.","caption":"Actress Rose McGowan attends the New York Academy of Art's Tribeca Ball 2016 at the NY Academy of Art in New York City on April 4, 2016.","creditText":"Mark Sagliocco—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/politics/","name":"politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4447486/rose-mcgowan-donald-trump/","name":"Rose McGowan Says Donald Trump Coverage Is Poisoning Humanity"}}]}] ```