Captain America Vs. Donald Trump: Chris Evans Takes To Twitter To Denounce President-Elect

Chris Evans took to Twitter Tuesday to denounce Donald Trump’s criticism of the casts of Hamilton and Saturday Night Live in light of the President-elect’s ongoing silence on white nationalism. It would seem the star of the Captain America films really isn’t a fan of the Donald, or the company the he keeps.

Evans retweeted an article published Monday on The Atlantic, which details the meeting of white supremacist “alt-right” groups in Washington, D.C. over the weekend. The article includes a deeply unsettling video in which the speaker, Richard B. Spencer, claims, “America was, until this past generation, a white country, designed for ourselves and our posterity. It is our creation. It is our inheritance. And it belongs to us.” After applauding Spencer’s words, several members of the audience can be seen giving the Nazi salute. (A meeting between Trump and The New York Times staff, in which the President-elect discusses this very meeting and other related issues, concluded moments ago; live tweets of the meeting can be found here.)

Evans certainly isn’t the only one alarmed by this sort of rhetoric, and it isn’t the first time the actor has criticized the future Commander-in-Chief recently. On the night of the election, he described himself as “devastated” by the results at the polls.

Evans again took to social media in the subsequent days to criticize Trump’s appointment of former Breitbart editor Steve Bannon, retweeting CNN reporter Jake Tapper’s allegations about Bannon’s anti-semitism.

The Avengers star isn’t the first member of a major Hollywood franchise to speak out against Trump. Back in September, a number of former cast and crew members of Star Trek signed a joint statement in protest of the then-candidate’s ideology and values, titled ‘Trek Against Trump.’ Just days before the election, A Song of Ice and Fire author George R. R. Martin called the real estate tycoon “unfit” for the office.