Mark Ruffalo has blasted Donald Trump as the “worst human being” during a red carpet interview at the Golden Globes.
The actor, 58, joined other A-listers in protesting Trump’s administration at Sunday’s Los Angeles ceremony by wearing buttons that say “BE GOOD” and “ICE OUT” to honor Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week.
Ruffalo told USA Today on the red carpet, “This is for Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered.”
He went on to call out Trump for the recent military operations in Venezuela, adding: “We're in the middle of a war with Venezuela that we illegally invaded. He's telling the world that international law doesn't matter to him. The only thing that matters to him is his own morality, but the guy is a convicted felon; a convicted rapist. He’s a pedophile.”
Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in May 2024. Earlier that year, a jury had found him liable of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in 1996, but he was never convicted because it was a civil suit. Trump has never been charged with a sex crime, including pedophilia.
“He's the worst human being. If we're relying on this guy's morality for the most powerful country in the world, then we're all in a lot of trouble,” Ruffalo said before concluding, “So this is for [Good]. This is for the people in the United States who are terrorized and scared today. I know I'm one of them. I love this country. And what I'm seeing here happening is not America.”
When approached for a response to Ruffalo’s comment, the White House directed The Independent to a post on X from White House Communications Director Steven Cheung calling Ruffalo “one of the worst actors in the business.”
“More impressively, he's an even worse human being by spewing outright lies because deep down inside, he hates himself for knowingly subjecting the public to his god awful performance,” Cheung said.
The Be Good campaign, organized by groups including the National Domestic Workers Alliance and endorsed by the ACLU, was created to honor Good as well as Keith Porter, who was killed on New Year’s Eve by an off-duty ICE agent in Los Angeles. The campaign’s website says that the movement’s goal is to remind people “to be good to one another in the face of such horror — to be a good citizen, neighbor, friend, ally and human.”
In addition to Ruffalo, who was nominated for best actor in a TV drama but lost to Noah Wyle, other stars that wore the campaign’s buttons to protest Trump and ICE included Jean Smart, Wanda Sykes, Ariana Grande, and Natasha Lyonne.
Smart said on the red carpet: “I feel like we're kind of at a turning point in our country and I hope people can keep their heads because I think that's actually going to be the hardest thing, to keep our heads, but that's going to take a lot of courage and a lot of restraint.”
