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White House responds to Mark Ruffalo’s critiques at Golden Globes
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 11: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) (L-R) Mark Ruffalo and Sunrise Ruffalo attend the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton on January 11, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
(NewsNation) — The White House is pushing back after actor Mark Ruffalo criticized President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance during remarks at the Golden Globes.
Ruffalo appeared on the red carpet Monday night wearing a “BE GOOD” pin on his tuxedo. When asked about it by USA TODAY, the actor said the pin was dedicated to Renee Nicole Macklin Good, a 37-year-old mother who was shot and killed by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
“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,” Ruffalo said.
While explaining the pin’s meaning, Ruffalo accused Vance of “lying about what’s happening” and condemned Trump.
“We’re in the middle of a war with Venezuela that we illegally invaded,” Ruffalo said. “(Trump’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.”
In May 2024, Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. That same year, a jury found him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s in a civil case. Trump has not been criminally convicted of sexual assault and has never been charged with pedophilia.
Ruffalo also told Entertainment Tonight that he struggled to enjoy the night’s celebrations, given the state of world affairs.
“We’ve got, literally, storm troopers running around terrorizing, and as much as I love all this, I don’t know if I can pretend like this crazy stuff isn’t happening,” he said. “We have a president who says the laws of the world don’t apply to him and we can rely on his morality, but he has no morality, so where does that leave us? Where does that leave the world?”
Steven Cheung, assistant to the president and White House director of communications, dismissed Ruffalo’s comments on social media.
“Poor thing Mark Ruffalo, star of She-Hulk, is one of the worst actors in the business,” Cheung wrote. “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.”