The Celebrities Who Came Out for Trump in 2024

While most of Donald Trump’s celebrity supporters were not new this time around when he ran for office, there were a few famous Trump-skeptics or silent supporters who came out to support him for the first time this year.

Whether they avoided expressing their political views altogether or regurgitated his talking points in past elections without an explicit endorsement, the new famous faces felt like now was the time to officially jump on the Trump train.

The reasons for why vary, spanning everything from growing public acceptability to their endorsement, supporting a Trump-loving spouse, even as a possible distraction from assault allegations. Here are a few of the celebrities who made the move in 2024.

Zachary Levi

In 2016, the Shazam actor previously implored his social media following not to vote for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump since “neither actually cares about anything but power.” He changed his position to endorse the president-elect this year, however, after his preferred candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the race. Levi called it “career suicide” to make the endorsement at the time, but later backtracked on that sentiment in an interview with Bill Maher released earlier this month. “You got canceled,” for endorsing Trump, Maher said, but Levi disagreed. “I already had multiple jobs that I was in the process of shooting or that I have yet to shoot, and none of those have been compromised,” he told Maher.

In fact, Levi doesn’t seem at all concerned about career consequences anymore, as he joined the Megyn Kelly Show the month following his endorsement to further express his support for Trump. “I was a Bobby Kennedy guy—I still feel he would be the best president,” he told Kelly, but once RFK Jr. dropped out, “and he and Trump really came together and they formed this unity,” he felt that “as difficult as it can be to stand in this Trump campaign because of those things that I have issue with, I know at the end of the day, he’s still the right—of these two options—the right way to go.”

“I’m not voting for Donald Trump,” Levi added as a caveat, but “everyone else that they’re gonna bring in on this team, this Avengers, this Vultron, whatever you wanna call it, and they’re gonna get in there and actually do what Donald Trump said he was gonna do.”

Sylvester Stallone

After expressing his apprehension in January 2016 that Trump’s “bigger than life” public character may not “translate to running the world,” in an interview with Variety, Stallone endorsed Trump this year. He’d supported John McCain over Obama in 2008, but told the publication that he’s not a Republican. “I don’t think you can be totally one-sided forever,” he said, “Then you close your mind to all sorts of possibilities. It’s just, ‘Who comes along better at that time for what the planet is going through?”

When Trump reportedly floated Stallone’s name for an arts position in his administration at the end of 2016, Stallone said in a statement that he was “flattered.” It was one sign of his softening towards the then-president that led to the present, where Stallone endorsed Trump and praised him as “the second George Washington” while introducing him at a November Mar-a-Lago event.

Mel Gibson

Gibson reportedly said the country deserves better than Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in 2016, but now he has become one of the president-elect’s most outspoken celebrity supporters. This year, the actor relied on crude, misogynistic insults aimed at Vice President Kamala Harris as he fiercely supported Trump. He’s also made a habit of voicing conspiracy theories about politicians who don’t side with Trump.

Victoria Jackson

The Saturday Night Live alum seems to be another who wasn’t completely anti-Trump but didn’t outright endorse him right away.

In a podcast interview from 2015, as Jackson whined about being seated in an overflow room during SNL’s 40th anniversary show, she called Trump (and Sarah Palin) “token” Republicans. Jackson has herself become a controversial figure, often railing against “cancel culture” while spreading racial hate content with her platforms (including using her website to harass a Muslim neighbor), and has echoed Trump’s “birther” lie about Obama.

Somewhere along the way, Trump became more than a “token” for Jackson, because in June, she posted to Instagram, “VOTE TRUMP!”

Danica Patrick

The NASCAR driver was one who had declined to endorse Trump (or any candidate) during his previous election races, as she told Fox Business in 2016, “I feel like religion and politics are the two things that you just stay away from.”

She didn’t hide her glee when Trump won that race, however, tweeting right after his win that year, “I look forward to @realDonaldTrump #MakeAmericaGreatAgain!” This year she was more direct, as Patrick made a big show of endorsing him with a social media post, in which she also revealed this year was the first time she’d even voted.

Dennis Quaid

Quaid endorsed Trump wholeheartedly in the 2024 election, but four years ago he took to social media to try and shut down speculation that he supported him in 2020. “It is being used by the cancel culture media that I was doing a campaign ad, endorsement of Donald Trump,” he said in the video, “Nothing could be further from the truth.”

He was also defending himself from reports that alleged his COVID “defeat despair” PSA was government funded and paid him “handsomely.” However, this year while stomping for Trump’s campaign, Quaid said he was his “favorite president of the 21st century.”

Russell Brand

Though the disgraced British reality star turned Christian influencer cannot vote in the U.S., he did tell Americans who he thinks they should vote for this year if they “care about democracy.”

On his “Stay Free with Russell Brand” podcast over the summer, Brand told his listeners, “I don’t know how you could do anything other than vote for Donald Trump for precisely the reasons that they claim that you can’t.” His lack of an official endorsement of the president may have been on account of Brand’s being busy facing a slew of new and resurfaced rape and assault allegations —but this year, he side-stepped the firestorm to double down on his Christian rebrand, part of which apparently includes supporting Trump.

Cheryl Hines?

Where Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines stands politically has been a source of internet speculation amid her husband RFK Jr.’s endorsement of Trump. Hines, previously a vocal Democrat and critic of Trump, has cooled on her critiques—or on sharing any thoughts on politics—since Kennedy began gunning for a position in Trump’s cabinet.

Hines’ conspicuous, interpretably neutral silence, has seemed less neutral as of late, now that Kennedy has officially been tapped as Trump’s pick for Health Secretary. After calling Trump “ridiculous and disrespectful,” Hines has apparently changed her attitude. According to Page Six’s alleged source, Hines “plays nice” while rubbing shoulders with the president-elect’s loyalists.

Her warming to Trump, according to Kennedy, happened just after his Pennsylvania assassination attempt, at which point Kennedy said she told him, “You should hear [Trump] out.”