‘Shazam’ Star Zachary Levi Says Endorsing Trump Is ‘Career Suicide’ For Him

Actor Zachary Levi endorsed former President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election, saying that the move could be “career suicide.”

Levi made his endorsement at Trump’s Reclaim America Tour in Dearborn, Michigan.

During this event, he moderated a discussion with former independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii).

“I’m not gonna take too much time, but I did want to just give you a little context about why Shazam is standing here talking to you about these various things,” Levi said at the event. 

“I grew up in my family Christian conservative, that was pretty much the lane that we were in,” he shared. “My parents were Kennedy Democrats that then turned into Reagan Republicans, and they taught me to have a healthy level of distrust for the government and – and a healthy level of distrust for industry that runs amok.”

“For a long time, I was like, ‘Man, I really want to find a politician that represents all of the things that I want, and I want to see in a presidential candidate,'” he continued. “And this year, I found Bobby Kennedy, and I thought, ‘Man, this guy – this guy is it. He’s the real deal. He’s the real deal.'”

“And in a perfect world, in whatever that would look like, perhaps I would have voted for Bobby,” the actor said. “But we don’t live in a perfect world; in fact, we live in a very broken one.”

“We live in a country that has been hijacked by a lot of people who want to take this place way off the cliff,” he declared. “And we’re here to stop that, right? We’re here to make sure that we are going to take back this country. We are going to make it great again. We are going to make it healthy again. And so, I stand with Bobby, and I stand with Tulsi, and I stand with everyone else who is standing with President Trump because I do believe that of the two choices that we have — andwe only have two – Donald Trump – President Trump – is the man that can get us there.”

At the end of the panel discussion, Levi noted that when he said that he “was endorsing President Trump through [his] endorsement of Tulsi and Bobby.” 

“But I will say, though, that, you know, within my industry, as you can probably imagine, Hollywood is a very, very liberal town, and this very well could constitute career suicide,” he then asserted. “So I’m glad I did it with you guys.”

Back in June 2022, Levi opened up to journalist Elizabeth Vargas about his struggles with depression, his difficult childhood, as well as the time he suffered a “complete mental breakdown” at the age of 37.

In February 2023, the actor faced backlash after telling an X, then known as Twitter, user that he thought the Pfizer vaccine was a danger to the world.