Liberal actress Lea Thompson isn’t thrilled about her former fiancé Dennis Quaid’s endorsement of Donald Trump for the upcoming 2024 presidential race.
The “Back to the Future” actress shared her dismay on X, about Quaid campaigning for Trump during a rally in Coachella, California on Saturday.
“I was engaged to him,” she commented, adding a thinking emoji for effect. She further urged her followers to support Kamala Harris instead, with the hashtags #VoteBlueToStopTheStupid and #crimeisactuallydown.
In the clip she included in the post Quaid posed a question to the crowd, “Are we going to be a nation of law and order? Or wide-open borders? Which is it? Because it’s time to pick a side.”
I was engaged to him.🤔#VoteBlueToStopTheStupid #crimeisactuallydown https://t.co/5xZETLtqv5
— Lea Thompson (@LeaKThompson) October 13, 2024
Quaid, 70, and Thompson, 63, began their relationship in 1982 after meeting while working on “Jaws 3-D,” and they were engaged from 1984 until their split in 1987.
At Coachella, Quaid announced that this year’s presidential election presents a choice between TikTok and the U.S. Constitution, saying, “I’m here to tell you that it’s time to pick a side. Are we going to be a nation that stands for the Constitution or for TikTok?”
He bemoaned the loss of a country that once enjoyed “cheap cash” and was “exporting oil to our allies and our friends.”
He also discussed his recent role as the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, in the biographical film “Reagan,” released on August 30.
Quaid told the audience that Reagan was his favorite president of the 20th century, but he considers Trump his favorite president of the 21st century.
While Quaid’s “Reagan” has grossed close to $30 million at the box office, the film “The Apprentice” has struggled.
You’re fired!
THE APPRENTICE earned just $150k in previews last night. pic.twitter.com/udyhM2M5Lc
— Exhibitor Relations Co. (@ERCboxoffice) October 11, 2024
The Trump biopic, which controversially depicts Trump as a rapist in his youth, is expected to accumulate a measly $1.5 million during its opening weekend—a disappointing figure for a wide release across 1,740 screens, averaging about $862 per screen.
Considering an average of multiple showings per day, this translates to only around five viewers per screening, implying mostly empty theaters.
The film’s anticipated $1.5 million weekend gross falls short of pre-release expectations, which had forecasted around $3 million.
Despite receiving significant publicity from major media outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, CBS News, MSNBC, and trade publications like Variety, interest in “The Apprentice” remained low.
Meanwhile, Quaid previously voiced his support for Trump while promoting “Reagan.”
In May, he explained his shift to supporting Trump due to concerns over “the weaponization of the justice system” and Trump’s policy record.
“I think I’m gonna vote for him in the next election,” Quaid told the titular host of “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” noting, “It just makes sense.”
“I was ready not to vote for Trump, until what I saw is, more than politics, I see a weaponization of our justice system and a challenge to our Constitution,” the “Frequency” star added.
At the Coachella rally, Trump criticized Kamala Harris for comments made during an appearance on ABC’s “The View.”
President Trump EXPOSES Kamala Harris for saying she wouldn’t do anything different from Joe Biden during Coachella, CA rally pic.twitter.com/Pp7U1GBRKA
— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) October 13, 2024
When asked if she would have handled anything differently than President Biden in the past four years, Harris said she would do it all the same.
“There is not a thing that comes to mind,” noting that she had “been part of most of the decisions that have had impact,” she told the panelists.
“Kamala Harris said this week she can’t think of one thing, not one thing that she would do differently,” Trump remarked.
He then showed the crowd a video highlighting the administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, which resulted in 13 American service members’ deaths.
“More than 13,000 illegal immigrants convicted of murder have been caught at the border and then released into the United States,” the video stated.
The clip also pointed out that an Afghan national, who had came into the country on a “special immigrant visa” in September 2021 — after the withdrawal from Afghanistan – was charged with plotting a terrorist attack that was set to happen on Election Day.