Rachel Zegler is beneath hearth for her “f–ok Trump” remarks.
As with the remainder of America, celeb responses to the 2024 election outcomes have assorted.
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 Facet 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 pissed off by the outcomes and the looming uncertainty of what’s to return.
“I discover myself speechless within the midst of this,” she started. She expressed her heartbreak and disappointment on the “sheer quantity of people that confirmed up for this man who threatens our democracy.”
Rachel affirmed; “I’m right here with you. To cry, to yell, to hug. To wax poetic on how the left continues to fail us in forging a brand new path ahead.”
Like thousands and thousands of Individuals, Rachel went on to lament the “deep, deep illness on this nation” that permits folks like Trump to conquer primary decency.
She additionally expressed a hope that “Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself by no means know peace.” She additionally concluded one in every of her Story posts with a succinct: “F–ok Donald Trump.”
Zegler additionally correctly urged folks 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 an alternative, they handed round screenshots on social media, as in the event that they have been proof of wrongdoing.
“@rachelzegler is an untalented, hateful piece of human particles,” declared one Twitter denizen.
One other tweet complained: “I by no means thought that we’d attain some extent the place a literal Disney princess would purposefully use phrases like ‘f–ok’ in a public assertion, however right here we’re.”
Whereas it’s true that many individuals who discover the usage of “f–ok” to be scandalous are aged, that doesn’t imply that this Twitter consumer was. Political motivations can take advantage of abnormal conduct — equivalent 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.” Elegant 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 precipitated us to maneuver additional and additional away from peace and understanding, and I’m sorry I contributed to the unfavorable discourse,” she penned in a brand new Instagram Story.
“This week has been emotional for thus many people,” she acknowledged. “However I firmly imagine that everybody has the appropriate to their opinion, even when it differs from my very own.”
Rachel concluded her much-less-relatable-than-her-earlier-posts apology with: “I’m dedicated to contributing positively in the direction of a greater tomorrow.” That final half, a minimum of, makes loads of sense.
Did Disney power 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 preserve 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 moral sense. (Talking of such folks, her co-star is Gal Gadot, so … this movie was already going to be controversial.)
However have been Rachel’s Trump feedback crossing the road? Most likely not. That one line about Trump voters by no means realizing peace might have gone a bit too far, nonetheless.
In spite of everything, certainly we need to create a world the place everybody — even these in our nation which have as soon as once more set us off track — can thrive and know peace.
Keep in mind, once they go low, we go excessive.
