Shazam! star Zachary Levi endorses Donald Trump after RFK Jr suspends campaign

Shazam! star Zachary Levi has endorsed Republican candidate Donald Trump for president after his first selection, Robert F Kennedy Jr, dropped out of the race final month.

The DC actor appeared at a Donald Trump rally in Michigan on Saturday to throw his help behind the previous president.

“I’m not gonna take an excessive amount of time, however I did simply wanna simply offer you a bit of context about why Shazam is sitting right here speaking to you about these varied issues,” mentioned Levi, referencing his superhero character.

“I grew up in my household that was Christian conservative, that was just about the lane that we have been in. My mother and father have been Kennedy Democrats that then was Reagan Republicans, they usually taught me to have a wholesome stage of mistrust for the federal government and a wholesome stage of mistrust for trade that runs amok.

“And for a very long time, I used to be like, ‘Man, I actually need to discover a politician that represents all the issues that I would like and I need to see in a presidential candidate.’ And this yr, I discovered Bobby Kennedy, and I believed, ‘Man, this man is it. He’s the actual deal.’ And in an ideal world, no matter that may appear to be, maybe I’d have voted for Bobby. However we don’t reside in an ideal world. Actually, we reside in a really damaged one, we reside in a rustic that has been hijacked by lots of people who need to take this place means off the cliff. And we need to cease that, proper?”

Levi continued: “We’re right here to guarantee that we’re going to take again this nation, we’re going to make it nice once more, we’re going to make it wholesome once more. And so, I stand with Bobby, and I stand with Tulsi, and I stand with everybody else who’s standing with President Trump. As a result of I do imagine, of the 2 decisions that we now have, and we solely have two, Donald Trump, President Trump is the person that may get us there. And he’s gonna get us there as a result of he’s gonna have the backing and the help and the knowledge and the data and the combat that exists in Robert Kennedy Jr and former consultant Tulsi Gabbard.”

Kennedy suspended his marketing campaign final month, endorsing Trump and his operating mate JD Vance.

Kennedy, who infamously revealed throughout his marketing campaign {that a} parasitic worm had embedded itself in his mind and died there, blew via tens of millions in money to get to his current 5 % share of the anticipated nationwide vote in November. Polls confirmed that determine persevering with to drop, and the remainder of his circle of relatives totally disavowed his candidacy.

In January 2023, two months earlier than the discharge of Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Levi shocked followers along with his response to a tweet asking if Covid-19 vaccine maker Pfizer was “an actual hazard to the world”.

“Hardcore agree,” he wrote.

Whereas the primary Shazam! (2019) movie was warmly obtained, the second was such a essential and monetary bomb that the movie’s director David F Sandberg has vowed to depart the world of superheroes behind.

Levi subsequently made quite a lot of public statements decrying the remedy Fury of the Gods obtained from critics.