The 51-year-old has made his feelings clear after the politically charged speeches at The Screen Actors Guild Awards
PIERS Morgan has slammed A-list stars for using awards ceremonies to make political statements.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain after the 2017 Screen Actors Guild awards, Piers admitted he was fed up with actors using their acceptance speeches to try to become "new Martin Luther Kings”.
At the ceremony in LA on Sunday night, many stars made statements against US President Donald Trump – who has temporarily banned people from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from travelling to the US.
Stranger Things star David Harbour was one of the celebrated actors who gave a rousing speech at the ceremony.
He told the audience: “We will shelter freaks and outcasts, those who have no home. We will get past the lies. We will hunt monsters.
“We will, as per Chief Hopper, punch some people in the face when they seek to destroy the weak and the disenfranchised and the marginalised.”
Although Piers has spoken out against the travel ban, it seems the GMB star isn’t happy about the changing nature of awards ceremonies.
He said on Monday’s show: “It’s an awards ceremony, it’s not a chance for you to be the new Martin Luther King.
“At what point do these ceremonies change from a being celebrations of movies?
“It’s all building up for the Oscars to be not be an event about movies but for the stars to compete about who can scream the loudest about Trump.”
Emily Ratajkowski also joined in protests against Trump over the weekend.
She was joined by famous siblings, Bella and Gigi Hadid who marched in New York.
Piers, 51, wrote about the travel ban in his column for The Daily Mail and questioned the US President’s reasoning.
Trump fan Piers said: “Whichever way President Trump tries to justify his executive order on banning immigrants and refugees from seven war-ravaged countries, it makes no sense.
“Nobody from any of those predominantly Muslim countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen - has committed a terror attack on US mainland.
“The perpetrators of the two major Islamic extremist terror attacks in New York on 9/11 and more recently in San Bernadino, came from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Lebanon and Pakistan.
“Yet, perversely, none of these countries are on the banned list.”
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