Disney Marvel actor Mark Ruffalo is not a Trump fan to say the least.
The longtime Avenger gave a speech in front of the ACLU where he expressed “fear” following President-Elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
Ruffalo spoke at ACLU SoCal’s Bill of Rights Awards and took a notably somber tone as he approached the podium.
“We got our asses kicked,” Mark Ruffalo says of the election while being honored at ACLU SoCal’s Bill of Rights Awards pic.twitter.com/Af8v25zKYe
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) November 11, 2024
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Mark Ruffalo spoke for nearly 20 minutes about Trump on a show that also featured Brittney and Cherelle Griner, Will Ferrell, Harper Steele, and Viet Thanh Nguyen.
“We got our a***s kicked,” Ruffalo said, referencing Trump’s victory from earlier in the week. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But sometimes you have to spend a little time in bed before it happens.”
(L-R): Mark Ruffalo as Smart Hulk / Bruce Banner and Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer “Jen” Walters/She-Hulk in Marvel Studios’ She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, exclusively on Disney+. Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios. © 2022 MARVEL.
Mark Ruffalo was a very outspoken Trump detractor and supporter of Vice President Harris’s campaign. He’s known as one of the loudest activists in Hollywood (and that’s really saying something). He told the crowd at the ACLU, “it was hard to some here tonight, honestly.”
He then went on to talk about the incoming Trump administration as though it were some kind of horrifying monster or natural disaster making its way toward the United States and expressed fear over what was coming.
Mark Ruffalo speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for “Thor: Ragnarok” Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
“The fact that we’re here says a great deal about what we all care about in this life,” the actor, who has played The Hulk since 2012’s The Avengers said. “And I want to appreciate you all for your values and the grief and the fear that you most acutely may be feeling as well, because I know I am. We suffered a great loss, it’s a loss that touches deeply on so much of what we’ve worked for and we’ve hoped for and dreamed of for such a long time now.”
Ruffalo then asked everyone in the room to stand up, turn to the person next to them, give them a hug, and say, “I love you.”
President Donald Trump at his inauguration in on January 20, 2017 at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Melania Trump wears a sky-blue cashmere Ralph Lauren ensemble. He holds his left hand on two versions of the Bible, one childhood Bible given to him by his mother, along with Abraham Lincoln’s Bible. Photo Credit: The White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Ruffalo is just one of many celebrities expressing a multitude of very big emotions in the wake of Trump’s 312 to 226 electoral college victory.
Singer, actress, and noted hater of President-Elect Trump, Bette Midler deleted her X account after the election. Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, another hugely outspoken Harris supporter, expressed his feelings on the Elon Musk-owned platform after maintaining a deafening silence in the hours following Trump’s win.
They say we get the leaders we deserve.
Either that has just been disproven, or this is not the America we all thought we were living in.
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) November 6, 2024
That’s the last post Hamill has made on X since the election results came in. He’s been silent for more than five days.
The results of this election has, for some, hammered home the point that Hollywood actors don’t have the same social sway they once enjoyed. Vice President Harris had the support of nearly every major celebrity, including George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Michael Keaton, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Brice Springsteen, Lizzo, and more.
‘AVENGERS’ stars Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Danai Gurira, Don Cheadle and Paul Bettany have reunited to make a video endorsing Kamala Harris’ campaign for President. pic.twitter.com/Erh31rowps
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) October 31, 2024
Ruffalo even reunited with the cast of Marvel’s Avengers films, including Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Don Cheadle, Robert Downey Jr., and more to film a Zoom call in which they voiced support for the vice president together.
Yet still President-Elect Trump won decisively, leaving many to wonder whether celebrities are truly mourning what they feel is a turning point in national politics or their fading star of cultural relevancy.
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