This is sure to lose some Captain America fans.
Captain America star Chris Evans, who is on the latest cover of The Hollywood Reporter, recently threatened that he would be “cutting ties” with Tom Brady if the QB still supports “dumb sh*t” Donald Trump.
Evans previously said he overlooked the political beliefs of his home state hero New England Patriots QB Tom Brady because he didn’t want to “encourage this landscape of if you disagree with me politically, you’re my enemy.”
Those days seem to be over now.
On Tom Brady and Trump:
“I really hope he’s not a Trump supporter. I’m just hoping he’s one of those guys that maybe supported him and now regrets it. Maybe he thought it was going to be different — and even that bothers me — but maybe there’s a chance now he just thinks Trump‘s an absolute dumb shit, which he is. If he doesn’t, if he’s still on that Trump train, I might have to cut ties. It’s really tough … I think maybe a couple of years ago…I might have tried to pull some, like, mental gymnastics to compartmentalize, but I don’t know if I can anymore. So I’m just hoping he’s woken up.”
Brady has supported Trump in the past, even rocking a “Make America Great Again” hat in his Patriots locker during Trump’s presidential campaign.
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Evans is well aware that not everyone agrees with him politically:
“You don’t want to alienate half your audience,” he admitted, but added, “I’d be disappointed in myself if I didn’t speak up. Especially for fear of some monetary repercussion or career damage — that just feels really gross to me.” And he said he’s received nothing but support from Marvel for expressing his views with studio president Kevin Feige saying, “I don’t see it as trash-talking. I see it as very astute, very honorable, very noble, very Cap-like.”
