Current:Home > ScamsWoody Harrelson wears hat supporting RFK Jr. for president: 'Great seeing you' -Ascend Wealth Education
Woody Harrelson wears hat supporting RFK Jr. for president: 'Great seeing you'
View
Date:2025-04-17 02:50:08
Woody Harrelson has thrown his hat into the political conversation once again – this time by actually wearing a hat seemingly endorsing controversial Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Kennedy's wife and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress Cheryl Hines posted a photo on Instagram with Harrelson sporting a blue Kennedy 2024 hat. "Great seeing you Woody," she wrote in the post. USA TODAY has reached out to Harrelson's rep for clarification.
Comments were mixed. One user wrote: "The support is going to be rolling out more and more as people begin to share how they really feel." Another added: "My enthusiasm is curbed."
Kennedy has drawn ire from many different groups given his opinions on vaccines and COVID-19.
Organizations advocating for Jewish and Asian people immediately criticized the presidential candidate after he spread a conspiracy theory at an event last month about the groups and COVID-19.
Kennedy, during a dinner in New York, said there is an "argument" that COVID-19 is "ethnically targeted." He claimed COVID-19 is "targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people" while sparing Ashkenazi Jewish people and Chinese people.
The presidential candidate in recent years has become a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement. Health experts have called his work dangerous, and members of his family have condemned him for spreading misinformation.
'Abhorrent':Groups call Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s COVID theory antisemitic and racist
Kennedy has criticized lockdowns sparked by the pandemic, suggesting things were worse for Americans than for Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
He apologized for the comments, his second public apology for Holocaust comparisons. In 2015, Kennedy used the word "Holocaust" to describe children he believed were harmed by vaccines.
Harrelson, for his part, has discussed politics in the past, notably denouncing former President Donald Trump after the 2016 election as well as criticizing former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
When Harrelson hosted "Saturday Night Live" earlier this year, the self-proclaimed "redneck hippie" said in his opening monologue: "You know, the red in me thinks you should be allowed to own guns. The blue in me thinks – squirt guns. So, I’m red and blue which makes purple. I’m purple." He also called himself "anarchist, Marxist, ethical hedonist, nondiscriminatory empath, epistemology deconstructionist, Texan," and took aim at COVID vaccine mandates.
Contributing: Marina Pitofsky, Naledi Ushe and Rachel Looker, USA TODAY; The Associated Press
More on 'SNL':Woody Harrelson takes a jab at COVID vaccine mandates in 'SNL' monologue
veryGood! (9)
Related
- See you latte: Starbucks plans to cut 30% of its menu
- Jurors watch video of EMTs failing to treat Tyre Nichols after he was beaten
- Teen left with burns after portable phone charger combusts, catches bed on fire in Massachusetts
- See Snoop Dogg Make His Epic The Voice Debut By Smoking His Fellow Coaches (Literally)
- A White House order claims to end 'censorship.' What does that mean?
- Blue Jackets open camp amid lingering grief over death of Johnny Gaudreau
- Texas education commissioner calls for student cellphone ban in schools
- 4 Albany officers suffer head injuries when 2 police SUVs collide
- This was the average Social Security benefit in 2004, and here's what it is now
- Endangered sea corals moved from South Florida to the Texas Gulf Coast for research and restoration
Ranking
- Nearly 400 USAID contract employees laid off in wake of Trump's 'stop work' order
- Malik Willis downplays revenge game narrative for Packers vs. Titans
- See Jamie Lynn Spears' Teen Daughter Maddie Watson All Dressed Up for Homecoming Court
- Sam's Club workers to receive raise, higher starting wages, but pay still behind Costco
- A White House order claims to end 'censorship.' What does that mean?
- Sean Diddy Combs' Alleged Texts Sent After Cassie Attack Revealed in Sex Trafficking Case
- Lionel Messi, Inter Miami back in action vs. Atlanta United: Will he play, time, how to watch
- Texas education commissioner calls for student cellphone ban in schools
Recommendation
'Squid Game' without subtitles? Duolingo, Netflix encourage fans to learn Korean
Hayden Panettiere breaks silence on younger brother's death: 'I lost half my soul'
'As fragile as a child': South Carolina death row inmate's letters show haunted man
Wagon rolls over at Wisconsin apple orchard injuring about 25 children and adults
Could Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft reunite? Maybe in Pro Football Hall of Fame's 2026 class
Oversight board says it will help speed up projects to fix Puerto Rico’s electric grid
Eva Mendes Shares Her and Ryan Gosling's Kids Are Not Impressed With Her Movies
60-year-old woman receives third-degree burns while walking off-trail at Yellowstone