Jane Fonda, the aging darling of the radical left, took to the stage at the 2025 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday to accept her Life Achievement Award—and promptly reminded us why she’s better known as “Hanoi Jane.”
The 87-year-old actress used her platform at the 2025 SAG Awards to spew tired leftist talking points, taking thinly veiled shots at President Donald Trump and doubling down on her obsession with “woke” nonsense.
Fonda called on her fellow elites to embrace “empathy”—a word the left has hijacked to justify their destructive policies.
“What we, actors, create is empathy. Our job is to understand another human being so profoundly that we can touch their souls,” said Fonda.
“And make no mistake, empathy is not weak or woke. By the way, woke just means you give a damn about other people,” she added.
WATCH:
“Empathy is not weak or woke. By the way, ‘woke’ just means you give a damn about other people”
—Jane Fonda accepting her SAG Lifetime Achievement Award
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Oh really, Jane? Is that what woke means? Because for millions of Americans, “woke” means the destruction of free speech, radical gender ideology, radical climate policies, defunding the police, forced DEI initiatives, illegal immigration & border crisis, and teaching kids to hate America (CRT).
But of course, Fonda thinks she can lecture working-class Americans about “giving a damn.”
During her speech, Fonda made thinly veiled attacks on President Trump and his policies, whining about the supposed pain caused by his administration.
“I’m sure many of you have played bullies and misogynists,” citing Sebastian Stan’s portrayal of the president in The Apprentice Movie as some profound example.
“You can pretty much recognize these types of actors—you know, the ones whose fathers probably bullied them and called men they felt were weak losers or pussies. While you may hate the behavior of your character, you have to understand and empathize with the traumatized person you’re playing, right? Thinking about Sebastian Stan and The Apprentice.”
“Back to empathy. A whole lot of people are going to be really hurt by what is happening, what is coming our way. Even if they’re of a different political persuasion, we need to call upon our empathy and not judge, but listen from our hearts and welcome them into our tent, because we are going to need a big tent to resist successfully what’s coming at us.”
Spare us the theatrics, Jane. The only people who are “hurt” by Trump’s America-first agenda are the corrupt bureaucrats and Hollywood elites who fear losing their grip on power.
As if her speech wasn’t already self-righteous enough, Fonda had the audacity to compare her brand of woke activism to historic social movements like the Civil Rights Movement and the fight against Apartheid.
“Have any of you ever watched a documentary of one of the great social movements, like a Apartheid or our civil rights movement or Stonewall and asked yourself, would you have been brave enough to walk the bridge? Would you have been able to take the hoses and the batons and the dogs? We don’t have to wonder anymore because we are in our documentary moment.”
Let’s be clear: There is zero comparison between what Fonda and her Hollywood cronies do—virtue-signaling from multimillion-dollar mansions—and the true sacrifices made by those who fought for real freedom and justice.
You can watch the full video below:
Relive Jane Fonda’s unforgettable Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech. #SAGAwards pic.twitter.com/S0DmD6zzjd
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