John Leguizamo could also be Hollywood’s most strident woke warrior.
The 63-year-old star promotes Identification Politics above all in interviews and on social media. One fast instance? He complained about casting white voice actors Charlie Day and Chris Pratt in “The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film.”
Even his X bio brims with woke thrives, together with the recently-discarded time period “Latinx.”
I’m a counter tradition, outgoing introvert, Latinx, underachieving overachiever attempting to go away this blue pebble a greater place than after I entered it!
So the star’s Trump derangement hardly comes as a shock. If he didn’t rage in opposition to the forty fifth president it could be stunning. But even Trump’s loudest critics, assume Stephen Colbert, took a quick knee following the July 13 try on the previous president’s life.
Not Leguizamo.
This week, the actor shared a picture of Trump with a wonderfully intact ear to assert the president wasn’t hit by a bullet in the course of the weekend’s rally in Butler, Pa.
He’s mendacity, Leguizamo mentioned. And he has the receipts.
Not even a scratch! However milk it for all you’ll be able to! https://t.co/GRPLkj8ASU
— John Leguizamo (@JohnLeguizamo) July 16, 2024
The platform’s Group Notes program fact-checked the declare, noting the image is circa 2022.
It’s a lie, a part of a rising, far-Left conspiracy that the try on Trump’s life, seen on video by thousands and thousands, by no means occurred.
You’d assume the star is perhaps embarrassed by that Tweet and both take it down or apologize for it. Not Leguizamo. It’s nonetheless up as of at present regardless of dozens of followers letting him realize it’s a lie.
If this had been an remoted incident it could be embarrassing however hardly unusual. In spite of everything, most of us have been tricked by a social media submit lately. X strikes quick, and it’s straightforward to get stung by a fraudulent submit.
Besides the actor has finished it earlier than.
Final week, Leguizamo reposted a narrative alleging Trump was a part of the Jeffrey Epstein little one abuse scandal.
This needs to be the scandal of the last decade! #TrumpPedoFiles https://t.co/c927fTnWlK
— John Leguizamo (@JohnLeguizamo) July 10, 2024
Does anybody imagine the media would cowl for Trump if paperwork proved he was certainly one of Epstein’s “shoppers?”
In fact not.
It’s one other conspiracy concept geared toward taking down Trump.
The star, who often helms “The Day by day Present” fake information desk, can’t be trusted to share strong data. He’s an actor, and social media customers shouldn’t lean on him for information within the first place.
It’s nonetheless galling to look at him peddle conspiracies to his 410K followers.
Even worse?
Hollywood has no drawback hiring him many times regardless of utilizing his celeb clout to deceive his fellow Individuals.
A satirist would have a discipline day with an actor who unfold loopy conspiracies on social media. It’s unlikely Leguizamo will out himself with a future “Day by day Present” section.