Celebrities React to Insurrection at the Capitol

On Wednesday, chaos ensued at the Capitol, where thousands were protesting the election results.

The Senate was forced to evacuate and pause the ceremony in which electoral college votes are counted, affirming Joe Biden’s victory. Vice President Mike Pence was immediately taken to a secret location after pro-Trump supporters broke in and started wandering around the building.

Areas of the building were vandalized by the mob, some carrying Confederate flags and pro-Trump signage, many of whom documented their crimes on social media. One woman was shot to death by Capitol Police on the first day the U.S. Capitol had been breached in over 200 years.

Many celebrities took to social media to express their outrage over the unprecedented violence.

P!nk tweeted, “As a United States Citizen, and the daughter of two veterans, and the sister of another, I am ashamed of what is happening in Washington. Hypocrisy, shame, Embarrassment. Unpatriotic hypocritical sheep drinking poison Kool aid. This a sad day for America..”

Referencing the Black Lives Matter movement, Chris Evans tweeted, “Just think of the carnage had they not been white.”

Mark Ruffalo added, “Imagine if this was our side. There would be rivers of our blood in the streets and not a single one of us would be armed. This has been allowed. #CoupAttempt.”

Cardi B. tweeted, “The irony is pretty funny………weren’t people just wild animals in the summer for demanding justice and now? ……Let me just watch.”

Josh Gad tweeted, “This is either a dereliction of duty by the Capital Police or a complicit desire to not plan for the known threat of chaos today. Either way, this is inexcusable. If you can be prepared for imaginary ANTIFA protestors, you had no business not prepping for these actual terrorists.”

See more tweets below.

An hour after the chaos, President Trump urged his supporters to “go home.” In a video, he said, “I know your pain. I know you’re hurt… You have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt.”

Trump also continued to make false claims, saying, “we had an election that was stolen from us. It was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side.”

His video was eventually removed or restricted on many social media sites due to “risk of violence.” Twitter has suspended his account for 12 hours.