PALM BEACH, FLORIDA - NOVEMBER 05: Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump talks to reporters after casting their votes at the polling place in the Morton and Barbara Mandel Recreation Center on Election Day, on November 05, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump will hold an Election Night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Donald Trump‘s decisive presidential victory shocked Hollywood as actors, celebrities and media personalities took to social media late Tuesday and early Wednesday to share their feelings of hurt and dismay.

Former “Married…With Children” star Christina Applegate said that Trump’s win threatened reproductive rights, which were already impacted after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. “Why? Give me your reasons why?????” Applegate wrote on X. “My child is sobbing because her rights as a woman may be taken away. Why? And if you disagree, please unfollow me.”

She continued in a separate post: “Please unfollow me if you voted against female rights. Against disability rights. Yeah that. Unfollow me because what you did is unreal. Don’t want followers like this. So yeah. Done. Also after today I will be shutting down this fan account that I have had for so many years because this is sick.”

Jamie Lee Curtis said on Instagram that Trump’s win “means a sure return to a more restrictive, some fear draconian time. Many fear their rights will be impeded and denied. Many, minority groups and young people will be afraid. Gay and trans people will be more afraid. We know that many women will now find it difficult to get the reproductive healthcare that they need and deserve. For all those people there will be those who will help you. Me included.”

She continued, “But what it really means is that we wake up and fight. Fight for women and our children and their futures and fight against tyranny, one day at a time. One fight at a time. One protest at a time. That’s what it means to be an American. That’s what it has always meant and will always mean regardless of the outcome.”

Rapper Cardi B at first kept it simple, posting a video of herself on her Instagram Story with the caption “I hate y’all bad.” She later wrote a lengthier post on Threads directed towards Kamala Harris: “No matter what they’ve said to bring you down or belittle your run for presidency, they can never say you didn’t run your race with honesty and with integrity!”

“I never thought I would see the day that a woman of color would be running for the President of the United States,” she continued, “But you have shown me, [shown] my daughters and woman across the country that anything is possible.”

 

Billie Eilish also posted on her Instagram Story, writing “it’s a war on women,” while Ariana Grande posted to her Instagram Story “olding the hand of every person who is feeling the immeasurable heaviness of this outcome today.”

Musician Ethel Cain posted a lengthy message on “If you voted for trump, i hope that peace never finds you. instead, i hope clarity strikes you someday like a clap of lightning and you have to live the rest of your life with the knowledge and guilt of what you’ve done and who you are as a person.”

Music producer Jack Antonoff took to X, writing “We turn to each other at the best times as we do at the worst times. our community is alive because we lift and take care of each other. we are not moved by bullshit. when we’re afraid we lean on each other. right now we are going to do exactly that. we are going to.”

President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama shared a message of congratulations. “We want to congratulate President Trump and Senator Vance on their victory.”

The statement posted via their Instagram page went on to say, “This is obviously not the outcome we had hoped for, given our profound disagreements with the Republican ticket on a whole host of issues. But living in a democracy is about recognizing that our point of view won’t always win out, and being willing to accept the peaceful transfer of power. Michelle and I could not be prouder of Vice President Harris and Governor Walz – two extraordinary public servants who ran a remarkable campaign. And we will always be grateful to the staff and volunteers who poured their heart and soul into electing public servants they truly believed in.”

Mark Hamill took to X posting, “They say we get the leaders we deserve. Either that has just been disproven, or this is not the America we all thought we were living in.”

On the other side of things, 50 Cent posted photos of him with Trump on Instagram with the caption: I” don’t care how the fight goes, I’m leaving with the winner shit. I still don’t know what’s going on 🤦congratulations!”

Jack White, who sued Trump in September for using a White Stripes song on social media, posted a long message on his Instagram account decrying him, stating that “the citizens placed him in power and now deserve whatever evils he’s going to enact.” “Trump won the popular vote. End of story,” he wrote. “Americans chose a known, obvious fascist and now America will get whatever this wannabe dictator wants to enact from here on in.”

“Glee” actor Kevin McHale posted on X: “Supreme Court gone for the rest of my lifetime. Ultra-conservative evangelical bigotry, xenophobia, racism is the mandate.”

David Simon, the creator of “The Wire,” offered a salty analysis of the results, writing on X: “God bless us all. Even the scrotes and shitheels.” Wendell Pierce, one of the stars of “The Wire” as well as another Simon series “Treme,” shared his concerns about Trump’s ability to solidify the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority after his election.

 

“The Supreme Court will be changed for a generation,” he wrote. “I’ll never see a moderate court again in my lifetime. Alito and Thomas will step down and Trump will appoint 40 year old partisans to the bench. The damage he is about to inflict on our institutions the next 2 years will be irreparable.”

Yvette Nicole Brown, one of the stars of “Community,” weighed in on the loss of Sen. Sherrod Brown to challenger Bernie Moreno, which shifted control of the Senate to the Republicans, calling it “a disgrace at a level I can’t even qualify.” Reacting to Trump’s victory, she said on X: “For us this is an every day Wednesday. Black folks are used to this. The rest of you are about to be shocked by how America treats you when it doesn’t care about you. And your new #DearLeader doesn’t care about ANY of you. The find out phase has begun.”

Stephen King sounded a more elegiac note. “There’s a sign you can see in many shops that sell beautiful but fragile items: LOVELY TO LOOK AT, DELIGHTFUL TO HOLD, BUT ONCE YOU BREAK IT, THEN IT’S SOLD. You can say the same about democracy,” he wrote on social media.

Actor and comedian Michael Ian Black tried to put a positive spin on things, writing: “Guys, let’s make it the best End of America ever!”

Mark Cuban, however, congratulated Trump for winning “fair and square.” He also congratulated Elon Musk and ended his post with “#Godspeed.”