John Cusack thinks far-right politicians are main America in a darkish path.
The “High Fidelity” actor frightened concerning the state of the U.S. whereas reacting to information that Philadelphia’s Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza had been vandalized with a big swastika over the weekend.
“That’s fucking terrible,” Cusack wrote Tuesday on X, the previous Twitter, whereas sharing a narrative from The Jerusalem Post. “[Too] bad we have Nazis running for office on US. The ghouls feel like they can come out.”
Philadelphia police are trying to find the suspected vandal, who was sporting a ski masks whereas caught within the act on a surveillance digital camera.
A publish on the Facebook web page for the memorial plaza requested for assist in figuring out the suspect, calling the incident a “disgusting act of antisemitism that comes amid a staggering spike in anti-Jewish hatred across Philadelphia and the country more broadly.”
Cusack didn’t identify anybody specifically in his tweet. However, he’s on document as not being an avid fan of former President Donald Trump, whom he referred to as a “mentally ill, virus-spreading, child-abducting Nazi rapist” in 2020.
He additionally mocked Trump’s authorized drama when the politician’s mug shot in Fulton County, Georgia, was made public final yr.
“Petulant and pouting,” Cusack wrote of Trump’s expression within the photograph. “He knows he’s garbage and knows he can’t outsmart anyone. Just fear and rage.”
At the identical time, the “Grosse Pointe Blank” actor hasn’t restricted his political critiques to Trump and members of the Republican Party.
Last September, he accused Democrats of abandoning the center class in a prolonged tweet, claiming that the get together “played a major part in creating the precise conditions for fascism to flourish.”
Cusack was reacting to information {that a} group of Democratic lawmakers had filed courtroom paperwork to dam a proposed wealth tax on the ultra-rich.
