Mark Ruffalo calls ‘No Kings’ protesters Avengers in anti-Trump speech

Mark Ruffalo invokes Marvel superheroes during demonstrations against Donald Trump.

During a demonstration in Bryant Park in New York on Saturday – one of the thousands of “No Kings” demonstrations at the national level of Donald Trump’s policies – the actor of Hulk called on his American compatriots to defend their convictions.

“We are going to have to be courageous if we want to be free,” said Ruffalo during a speech during the demonstration. “Being courageous for what we are dear – our freedoms, our democracy and the others – it’s for us, guys. Literally, together, we are the Avengers now.

Earlier in his remarks during the demonstration – which was held on June 14 to coincide with the military parade of President Trump celebrating his 79th anniversary in Washington, DC – Ruffalo made a paid passion for peace and mutual respect.

“We stick to dear life and what is dear to us to be alive”, 13 in progress 30 According to Star. “What is dear to me is the feeling of calm, peace and security. What is dear to me is my health and my family and my friends and my work and my neighbors and my community and all the different beautiful people of this country.”

Ruffalo added that he believed that the United States was based on the principle “that we did not want to be governed by a king, a monarch, or a dictator, or a supreme chief, or a CEO of shit,” apparently in reference to the career of Trump at Wall Street and Tesla, the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, on the federal government of Trump. “It’s not,,” said Ruffalo. “We hate that.”

THE Highlight The actor also called on the Americans to maintain “the simple concept that you cannot be stopped and thrown into a dungeon, or a detention center, or a concentration camp, or a damp basement without a fair trial”, alluding to the ice raids and Trump’s deportations. “We are not doing F — With that,” he added.

“Unfortunately, Donald Trump and the administration of billionaires, crackpots and ice brigades took over,” said Ruffalo. “We have a king and his courtyard and his beige henchmen, and they trample on our rights and our laws and our freedoms, being richer in dollars of taxpayers and making us less sure with their love as other Kings and dictators and tastes [Vladimir] Putin and [Benjamin] Netanyahu and Kim Jong one from the world. “”

The actor explained the inspiration of the timing of the demonstrations. “While Trump today blows $ 45 million from our money from our military birthday as a royal dictator in the capital of our country, we meet here by hundreds of thousands of people in thousands of people in the United States and in the world in the minds of our founding fathers and our brothers and sisters of the Boston Tea Party,” he said. “We are patriots and we are in love with democracy.”

Register Weekly entertainmentFree daily newsletter To obtain information on the first, the first exclusive looks, summary, criticism, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.

About 2,000 demonstrations as part of the “No Kings” banner took place on Saturday, many of which had participation rates by the thousands. The demonstrations followed a week of anti-glossy demonstrations in Los Angeles who prompted the controversial deployment of Trump from the National Guard and a curfew instrument by Mayor Karen Bass.

The other artists who attended demonstrations on Saturday included Ilana Glazer (who immediately spoke before Ruffalo), Susan Sarandon, Kerry Washington, Glenn Close, Ayo Edebiri, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Annasophia Robb and Emily Osment.

Watch Ruffalo’s full speech during the “No Kings” demonstration in New York above.