Taraji P. Henson is not on board with the 2026 Met Gala.
"The Color Purple" star took to social media in the days leading up to "fashion's biggest night" to share her disapproval of celebrities attending the May 4 museum fundraiser, which boasts Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos as lead sponsors and honorary chairs.
"👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾I am so confused by some ppl that are going. I am just like WTF ARE WE DOING," Henson wrote in a May 2 comment under writer and pop culture commentator Meredith Lynch's Instagram post.
In her video, Lynch criticized the Metropolitan Museum of Art for accepting money from Bezos, whom she noted has publicly backed President Donald Trump amid the Trump administration's efforts to withdraw funding from museums, libraries and agencies that support art organizations. Lynch also warned Met Gala attendees to avoid wearing "ICE Out" protest pins because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses Amazon Web Services' cloud systems.
Lynch's post received nearly 30,000 likes and counting, including by "The Bear's" Emmy-winning star Liza Colón-Zayas and, at one point, Bella Hadid, though Hadid's "like" later disappeared.
