“Reacher” star Alan Ritchson is sounding off on President Donald Trump for allowing the UFC to host a bloody fight night on the White House’s South Lawn last month.
Ritchson, in an episode of Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast that dropped Monday, used the host’s question about letting go of resentment to pivot to his frustration with the administration.
“Like the White House is ruins, a fucking UFC cage on the lawn. And like, you just do it, you just fucking do it and nobody says anything! And no consequences!” said Ritchson as he launched into an expletive-laden rant about the president.
The clip comes just days after Ritchson hit Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast to unload on the administration over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The action star called on Trump to “go to jail” over his ties to Epstein, comments which nudged a White House spokesperson into telling Entertainment Weekly that the president has “been totally exonerated on anything relating” to the late convicted sex offender.
(Note: Trump, Epstein’s former bud, has denied any wrongdoing and has not been implicated in his crimes.)
The actor has used past interviews to slam Trump as well as former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), his old high school classmate.
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In his appearance on Shepard’s podcast, Ritchson asked aloud how he’s supposed to let go of resentment when “this fucking 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 fucking still exists,” he added.
“So, no, I’m not good at letting go. I fucking hate it. I hate that that shit still lives in the world, unabated, unchecked, unresolved, uncleansed.”
He proceeded to point to the “predatory behavior” of the Catholic Church, suggesting that sex abuse victims have been “unheard, unseen.”
“And what is releasing the fucking resentment going to do for the world? Like, I think we should hold on to some of that anger so somebody gets Guy Richie and wakes up in a pool of their own teeth and blood.”