Rachel Zegler is underneath fireplace for her “f–k Trump” remarks.
As with the remainder of America, celeb responses to the 2024 election outcomes have various.
Many have responded with grief and well-reasoned fears. Others have responded with misogynistic memes.
Rachel Zegler vented her anger — not solely over Trump’s victory and America’s defeat, however over the voters who’re returning him to workplace. After backlash, together with one pundit truly calling HER a “pig,” she has apologized.
What did Rachel Zegler say about Donald Trump?
Rachel Zegler, star of West Aspect Story and the upcoming Disney remake of Snow White, took to her Instagram within the wake of the 2024 election outcomes.
Like many, many, many individuals, she was annoyed by the outcomes and the looming uncertainty of what’s to return.
“I find myself speechless in the midst of this,” she started. She expressed her heartbreak and disappointment on the “sheer number of people who showed up for this man who threatens our democracy.”
Rachel affirmed; “I am here with you. To cry, to yell, to hug. To wax poetic on how the left continues to fail us in forging a new path forward.”
Like thousands and thousands of Individuals, Rachel went on to lament the “deep, deep sickness in this country” that permits individuals like Trump to conquer primary decency.
She additionally expressed a hope that “Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace.” She additionally concluded one among her Story posts with a succinct: “F–k Donald Trump.”
Zegler additionally properly urged individuals to discontinue utilizing Twitter. Trump hype-man Elon Musk bought the platform and has made it monumentally worse, inflicting an exodus of thousands and thousands of customers. Critics disagree on how a lot of Twitter’s decline is the results of malice vs incompetence in relation to its infamous proprietor.
Why is Rachel Zegler getting backlash?
Within the wake of her remarks, some readers didn’t discover Rachel Zegler’s tackle Trump to be relatable. As a substitute, they handed round screenshots on social media, as in the event that they had been proof of wrongdoing.
“@rachelzegler is an untalented, hateful piece of human debris,” declared one Twitter denizen.
One other tweet complained: “I never thought that we’d reach a point where a literal Disney princess would purposefully use words like ‘f–k’ in a public statement, but here we are.”
Whereas it’s true that many individuals who discover the usage of “f–k” to be scandalous are aged, that doesn’t imply that this Twitter consumer was. Political motivations can take advantage of unusual conduct — comparable to Rachel Zegler’s sentiments in the direction of Trump — appear “outrageous.” All of us do it.
The weird backlash was not restricted to random people who find themselves nonetheless posting to Twitter prefer it’s 2014. Rightwing provocateur Megyn Kelly went as far as to name Rachel “a pig.” Stylish as all the time, Megyn.
Then, moderately rapidly, Rachel opted to backpedal and apologize for the tone of her Trump commentary.
“Hatred and anger have caused us to move further and further away from peace and understanding, and I am sorry I contributed to the negative discourse,” she penned in a brand new Instagram Story.
“This week has been emotional for so many of us,” she acknowledged. “But I firmly believe that everyone has the right to their opinion, even when it differs from my own.”
Rachel concluded her much-less-relatable-than-her-earlier-posts apology with: “I am committed to contributing positively towards a better tomorrow.” That final half, not less than, makes a number of sense.
Did Disney drive her to apologize?
There aren’t any indications that Disney strong-armed any apologies. Nonetheless, Rachel is the lead in Disney’s upcoming reside motion remake (they maintain making these for some purpose) of Snow White.
It’s doable that Disney requested her to stroll again her feedback after threats of a boycott from individuals who clearly have a skewed judgment of right and wrong. (Talking of such individuals, her co-star is Gal Gadot, so … this movie was already going to be controversial.)
However had been Rachel’s Trump feedback crossing the road? Most likely not. That one line about Trump voters by no means figuring out peace might have gone a bit too far, nonetheless.
In spite of everything, absolutely we need to create a world the place everybody — even these in our nation which have as soon as once more set us off beam — can thrive and know peace.
Keep in mind, after they go low, we go excessive.
