From Hollywood stars to social media influencers, celebrities had a lot to say about the 2024 U.S. presidential election results. Join us as we explore the diverse reactions from public figures, ranging from passionate support to deep disappointment. Which celeb's response resonated with you the most?
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00:00The 2024 presidential race ended yesterday,
00:04and this is what the country and the world woke up to this morning.
00:08Take a look.
00:09Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're breaking down the reactions
00:12notable public figures have had to the 2024 United States presidential election,
00:17which saw Republican 45th President Donald Trump become the 47th,
00:21defeating Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.
00:24Please note, this video is unranked,
00:26with all celebs to follow listed in alphabetical order.
00:29Do I think Donald Trump is a perfect human being?
00:31No, I don't think anybody on this planet is a perfect human being, myself included.
00:37Adam McKay.
00:38It's just blowing through all parody, all satire.
00:44It's existing in this kind of Ralph Steadman-like zone
00:48that's so grotesque and preposterous and cartoonish.
00:52This outspoken filmmaker might be best known for his Will Ferrell-starring comedies,
00:55but after Election Day, Oscar winner McKay was hardly joking around.
00:59In a blunt assessment of the results,
01:01McKay posted to X that, quote,
01:03"...it is time to abandon the Dem Party.
01:05I'm registering Green Party or working families, but am open to ideas."
01:09If I woke up one morning and there was a headline that there was a campaign event
01:14and Trump swung around because he thought someone was grabbing him
01:17and he punched a baby and everyone was cool with it, I wouldn't be that shocked.
01:21Prior to those results being declared,
01:24the Anchorman and Big Short director posted the following question to X, quote,
01:28"...who would have guessed lying about Biden's cognitive health for two years,
01:31refusing to do an open convention for a new nominee,
01:34never mentioning public health care and embracing fracking,
01:37the Cheneys and a year-long slaughter of children in Gaza wouldn't be a winning strategy."
01:41This kind of Coke-Pepsi political system that we're ping-ponging between,
01:46where you have these just absurdly incompetent big-money lapdogs.
01:54I know that she's probably emotional right now.
01:58I know there's probably a lot going on in her mind, and I really...
02:03I know she's not listening to this, but she eventually will see it.
02:06Grammy-winning rapper Cardi B was a vocal Kamala Harris supporter in the months leading up to the
02:11election, despite her 2023 comments that chastised President Biden's military spending.
02:16The performer is no stranger to speaking out about left-wing issues close to her heart,
02:20having twice endorsed Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for president,
02:23and frequently espousing the benefits of Medicare and Social Security.
02:27I just hope that she knows that no matter what happens tonight,
02:33that millions of people are proud of her.
02:36Cardi posted an effusive thank-you message to Harris after the results of the election
02:40had formally come in. In her letter, the rapper wrote that, quote,
02:43"...I never thought I would see the day that a woman of color would be running for
02:46the President of the United States, but you have shown me that anything is possible."
02:51She changed my mind. I feel like she was very honest.
02:54I feel like she said the things that I wanted to hear.
02:57Christina Applegate
02:58What do you say we go out on a date? Have some chicken, maybe some sex. You know, see what happens.
03:06Oh, let me get this over here.
03:11Whereas some public figures saw the opportunity to rise from the ashes Phoenix-style following
03:15Vice President Harris' electoral defeat, others saw only despair.
03:19Such was the case with Adam McKay's Anchorman star Christina Applegate,
03:23whose emotional ex-post about President-elect Trump's win stirred up controversy and resulted
03:27in the Emmy winner issuing a public apology. Invoking her 13-year-old daughter Sadie,
03:32Applegate wrote that, quote,
03:33"...my child is sobbing because her rights as a woman may be taken away.
03:37Why? And if you disagree, please unfollow me."
03:40After a series of fiery responses to ex-users who took issue with her posts,
03:44Applegate once again posted to ex, writing, quote,
03:47"...I apologize. I'm still reeling and sobbing, but I'm not angry anymore."
03:51Brick, are you saying that there's a party in your pants and that I'm invited?
03:56That's it.
03:58Did Brian tell you to say this, Brick?
04:00Yes, he did.
04:01Dave Portnoy
04:02He just didn't win. He won for fun. He won the electoral.
04:06He won the popular vote. He got more votes than last time he was president.
04:10A total ringing endorsement for the Republicans and Donald Trump.
04:15Of course, while Hollywood and California as a whole are famous for their typically
04:19left-leaning stances, not every celebrity holds pro-Democrat or left-wing views.
04:23Such was the case with podcaster, entrepreneur,
04:26and barstool sports founder Dave Portnoy,
04:28who had endorsed Donald Trump days before the November 5th election.
04:31People like myself, independents or moderates, the Democrats gave us no choice.
04:37The Democrats gave us no choice.
04:38That was the worst campaign.
04:40Posting to Instagram the morning of the 6th,
04:42Portnoy proclaimed that Trump's win stemmed from his supporters' disenchantment with the
04:46American political machine and that, quote,
04:49millions and millions and millions of people voted for Trump.
04:52He won clearly. He won decisively.
04:54Portnoy shared that he ultimately voted for the president-elect because, quote,
04:58I felt I had no choice but to vote for him because of the campaign that the Democrats ran.
05:02And their moral superiority have driven people away.
05:06If you say you're voting for Trump,
05:08suddenly you're a Nazi, you're Hitler, you're garbage. Enough.
05:12Ethel Cain
05:13I grew up on the yellow light on the street
05:17Putting too much faith in the make-believe
05:21Despite hailing from Florida,
05:22a state that has gone reliably red for the past several American presidential elections,
05:27indie singer-songwriter Cain, born Hayden Silas Horner,
05:30could hardly be described as a conservative.
05:32The alt-pop musician, whose upcoming album Perverts is due to be released in 2025,
05:37had some choice words for the president-elect and particularly his supporters.
05:47In a Tumblr post, hey, remember Tumblr,
05:49Cain wrote that, quote,
05:50I must say, if you voted for Trump, I hope that peace never finds you.
05:55Instead, I hope clarity strikes you someday like a clap of lightning,
05:58and you have to live the rest of your life with the knowledge and guilt of what you've done
06:02and who you are as a person.
06:14Because I moved to Puerto Rico in pursuit of becoming a world champion in my boxing career,
06:19I have rescinded my right to vote.
06:21But that doesn't mean I can't present my 80 million large audience
06:24with proper facts, numbers, and data to encourage them to vote.
06:28In what likely didn't come as a shock to those who have followed his career to date,
06:32the former Disney kid-turned-social-media-influencer-turned-professional-boxer
06:36had emphatically endorsed Donald Trump ahead of the election.
06:39Posting a 17-minute-long endorsement video to his ex-account just a few days prior,
06:43Paul, quote,
06:44said he supports Trump in spite of his persona because of his ability to get results,
06:48according to Yahoo Entertainment.
06:50Democrats have been in power for 12 of the last 16 years.
06:55So if we aren't happy with the current political state,
06:58economic state,
06:59environmental state,
07:01then who is to blame?
07:03Paul, once again posting to ex once Trump emerged victorious,
07:06attempted to extend an olive branch to non-believers,
07:09writing that, quote,
07:10I hope some can see that the truth won in this election.
07:13Voting for bad orange guy is an emotional decision and not the truth.
07:17Tim, I remind you that your running mate, Kamala Harris,
07:22is vice president, currently in the office,
07:25and hasn't done anything while she's in office.
07:29Jamie Lee Curtis.
07:30Morning, my name is Jamie Lee Curtis.
07:32I'm a proud, proud born and raised Los Angelina.
07:41The Oscar-winning Halloween in Everything Everywhere, All at One star posted a
07:45disappointed but spirited message to her fellow Harris supporters on Instagram.
07:49In the lengthy caption for her post,
07:51which depicts an illustration of a bald eagle carrying an American flag,
07:54Curtis wrote that, quote,
07:55It means a sure return to a more restrictive, some fear draconian time.
08:00Many fear their rights will be impeded and denied.
08:02Many minority groups and young people will be afraid.
08:05I'm proud to be the daughter of very ardent Democrats.
08:09My mother, Janet Lee and Tony Curtis were deeply devoted.
08:13However, it wasn't all doom and gloom.
08:15Curtis encouraged her followers to fight tyranny and that, quote,
08:19That's what it means to be an American.
08:21That's what it has always meant and will always mean regardless of the outcome.
08:25How do you make that decision?
08:27I want to make that decision based on someone's experience.
08:31John Cusack.
08:32So here's Trump, who's really an unmasked kind of like dangerous.
08:39I mean, he looks unhinged visually.
08:42The actor, who has never shied away from sharing left-wing political opinions on
08:46his social media accounts, was deeply troubled by President-elect Trump's win.
08:50In an ex-post that he appears to have since deleted, Cusack wrote that, quote,
08:54The fact that the country would choose to destroy itself by voting in a convicted
08:58felon is a sign of deep nihilism, to put it mildly, in reference to the 2024 ruling that
09:04found Trump guilty of falsifying business records for hush money.
09:07What he's saying is unhinged.
09:09And then he contradicts himself, and it doesn't even matter.
09:12So he's sort of like the GOP or the celebrity culture unmasked.
09:18Cusack later posted quotes by writer Chris Hedges, who said that, quote,
09:22Trump expresses a childish yearning to be an omnipotent god.
09:26This yearning resonates with Americans who feel they have been treated like human refuse.
09:30He's short attention span, fame-seeking, money-worshipping culture unmasked.
09:38So it's interesting in a way.
09:41Stephen King.
09:42The last time I was here, I had a president who had just given me a
09:46National Medal of the Arts thing, which we argued over.
09:50Yeah.
09:51And now we've got a president who blocked me on Twitter.
09:54This iconic horror author, whose books have been adapted into a seemingly countless number
09:58of hit movies, has often posted to social media about his hatred for Trump.
10:02In fact, in 2016, King was one of a host of authors who signed a public letter denouncing Trump.
10:08Except the court says he can't block anybody.
10:12So my question is, do I really want to follow that guy?
10:16I don't think so.
10:18After Election Day 2024, King's response was simple and straightforward, but no less urgent.
10:23Comparing the state of American democracy to an antique shop, the Maine native wrote that,
10:28quote,
10:28There's a sign you can see in many shops that sell beautiful but fragile items.
10:32Lovely to look at.
10:33Delightful to hold.
10:34But once you break it, then it's sold.
10:36You can say the same about democracy.
10:39I might have said he had his head somewhere where a certain yoga position would be necessary
10:45to get it there.
10:46And that was it, man.
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11:04The hosts of ABC's The View.
11:06My takeaway is that the system works.
11:09We live in a democracy.
11:11People spoke.
11:13This is what people wanted.
11:15I vehemently disagree with the decision that Americans made.
11:19This long-running talk show has a complicated relationship with the president-elect that
11:23stretches back to his time before he ran for office.
11:25Trump, who many originally knew as a New York real estate developer and later as a reality
11:30show star, had often appeared on The View, outwardly chummy with the show's hosts,
11:34including Whoopi Goldberg.
11:35Is it the outcome I wanted?
11:37No.
11:37But we live in a democracy.
11:39I have my vote.
11:40Millions of people cast their votes, did.
11:42And what's important to me is this.
11:44Tens of millions of Americans, our friends, our neighbors, our family members, voted for
11:49Donald Trump.
11:50However, as the Republican politician noted during his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience,
11:55that relationship soured quickly once Trump's unsavory comments about women,
11:58minorities, and more began to trickle out.
12:01After the results of the 2024 election came in, Goldberg defiantly refused to use the
12:06president-elect's name and praised Vice President Harris' whirlwind presidential campaign.
12:11Everybody can always say, oh, she should have done this.
12:14She should have done this.
12:15She did what she did.
12:16She was everywhere.
12:17She talked to everybody.
12:19And people didn't come out.
12:20I don't know why.
12:21And it doesn't even matter.
12:23He's now the president.
12:24I'm still not going to say his name.
12:26Are there any other celeb reactions to the 2024 U.S. presidential election that we missed?
12:30Let us know in the comments below.