Actor Alan Ritchson, most well known for his role as Jack Reacher in the hit Amazon Prime series Reacher, is facing calls for a boycott after he angered MAGA supporters by slamming President Donald Trump, accusing him of “raping the world” during a recent episode of the Happy Sad Confused podcast at the end of July.
Ritchson, 43, has become a very brazen, bold critic of President Trump despite the fact that his action thriller series on Amazon has a large fanbase of conservative viewers. The actor brought up the president during a discussion about the Epstein files, saying that Trump is the person who has access to the nuclear codes and that he is “all up into 13-year-olds.”
The comments about being a rapist into underage children stems from allegations from notes released by the FBI in March 2026 where a woman claimed that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to President Trump in 1984, when she was 13. She then alleges that Trump forced her to perform a sex act on him. The president has thoroughly denied the allegations.
Ritchson went off on Trump a second time during an episode of fellow actor and comedian Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. “Look at the politics that we deal with right now,” Ritchson told Shepard. “Like, the White House is in ruins, a f—ing UFC cage on the lawn. And like, you just do it! You just f—ing do it! And nobody says anything!”
“What are we doing?,” Ritchson added. “And there’s no consequences…I’m just supposed to let go of my resentment that this f—king guy is just raping the world that he lives in for whatever gain he personally can have, and I’m supposed to let that go? And then what? It f—ing still exists. So, no, I’m not good at letting go.”
“I f—ing hate it. I hate that that s— still lives in the world, unabated, unchecked, unresolved, uncleansed,” he concluded his outburst. Lots of MAGA supporters showed up in the comment section of a clip of the interviews being shared around the internet, making him canon fodder for those on the right. According to Yahoo News, actor Kevin Sorbo, an outspoken conservative, slammed Ritchson for attacking Trump and by extension, those who support him.
“Alan Ritchson has decided the best use of his time is to attack Trump, and to throw a few jabs in at Catholics for some reason,” Sorbo said in a post on X. “You’d think he’d be smart enough to keep his mouth shut because fans of Reacher happen to also be right-wing. But nope.” Fans made it clear they will no longer support Ritchson or his show due to his political beliefs.
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One user replied on a thread, “F#CK REACHER!!! I WILL NEVER EVER WATCH ANYTHING THAT PUNK IS IN AGAIN BECAUSE HE DISRESPECTED MY PRESIDENT!!!” Another wrote, “He’s Bud Lighted himself. They can never learn to keep their big mouth shut!” Someone else wrote, “I would imagine any deals he has are going away! What a complete moron he is.”
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