Tennis legend Martina Navratilova is fronting a new ad blasting Donald Trump’s “authoritarian presidency” and calling on Americans to “speak up.” In the video for advocacy group Home of the Brave, the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion, who grew up in communist Czechoslovakia before moving to the U.S., says, “I defected from a totalitarian regime, and like hell am I going to be cowed again. I’m so proud to be an American, but I’m embarrassed for what Trump is doing to our country.” Navratilova, 69, adds, “I am p----d as hell about people capitulating to Trump. This was the freest country in the world when I defected in 1975. If this was the situation for me now, I would definitely not choose to live here.”
The group says the ad is part of a campaign highlighting harms it attributes to Trump’s second term and features first-person testimonies from ordinary Americans, alongside other high-profile figures speaking out.
