Michael Keaton: Trump, Musk don't respect supporters

Actor Michael Keaton said former President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk don’t respect their supporters, in a video posted to Instagram this week.

“You know, for some of you folks who, guys, mostly, I guess, who are thinking about attending a rally with Musk and Trump, they don't really respect you,” Keaton said in the video.

In early October, Musk made an appearance with the former president at a rally in Butler, Pa., where Trump had faced an assassination attempt against him just a few months before. The tech billionaire endorsed Trump after the assassination attempt in July.

“They laugh at you behind your back,” Keaton said of Trump and Musk. “They think you're stupid. They don’t wanna hang out with you. They have nothing in common with you, they’re not your bros.”

Asked for a comment, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in an email to The Hill: “Who’s Michael Keaton?”

Keaton has expressed support for Democratic politicians and has been critical of Republicans in the past, as evidenced by posts on social platform X. In 2020, he called for President Biden, then the Democratic presidential nominee, to not take part in two more presidential debates against Trump after the first one.

“No more ‘debates’. Joe, leave him hanging. You won. Walk away. That was NOT a debate,” Keaton said at the time in a post on X.

In the Instagram video posted earlier this week, Keaton said “when Trump, years ago, I guess, said, ‘I could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue [and they’d] still vote for me,’ basically what he’s saying in parentheses is, ‘These people are so stupid, they’re so dumb, they’d still vote for me.’”

The Hill has reached out to Tesla.

This story was updated at 1:23 p.m.