Hollywood has a new loudest voice, and he plays a guy who solves problems with his fists on Amazon Prime Video.
Alan Ritchson, star of Reacher, went on an extended, expletive-filled tirade against President Trump.
And the White House came back swinging with a response that raised a question the Left really does not want to answer.
What Ritchson Actually Said on the Podcast
The rant came during an appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast.
Ritchson appeared on the podcast to promote his new film Motor City. When Horowitz noted that many actors are reluctant to be politically outspoken, Ritchson responded: “I’m missing that gene, dude. I need that because, honestly, everybody’s scared around me [over] what I’m gonna say. People, I think, are a little bit afraid of me because they’re like, ‘He’s a loose cannon.’ And I’m not. I’m just saying the s–t that everybody should say if they give a s–t about humanity.”
Then it escalated fast.
Ritchson said: “I would railroad these f*ckers. I would get those Epstein files out in two seconds. Move out of the way. Give me the f*cking manila envelope. I will get you the Epstein files.”
Ritchson wrapped up by blasting Trump as a “b*tch” and telling him to just “go to jail.” “Don’t you want to see what’s in there so that we can hold people accountable?! These f*cking rapists! We’re just cool with it?” Ritchson said. “That b*tch has the keys to the nuclear codes. He’s, like, all up into 13-year-olds. Like, dude, what? Go to jail. Go to jail.”
Ritchson admitted to Horowitz he does not believe he should be cursing as a Christian, but kept going anyway, saying the situation makes him angry.
None of those accusations against Trump have been proven in a court of law. They are allegations, and they should be understood as such.
What the White House Said Back
The White House did not let it slide.
In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said, “Just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein. And by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, President Trump has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him.”
And then Jackson landed the actual punch.
“Meanwhile, Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries and Stacey Plaskett have yet to explain why they were soliciting money and meetings from Epstein after he was a convicted sex offender,” she added.
That is a fair question. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries was asked multiple times whether he believed it was appropriate for Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-V.I.) to be exchanging messages with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He did not give a straight answer.
The record on what Trump actually did with the files is pretty clear. The House passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act by a vote of 427 to 1, and the Senate unanimously agreed to send the legislation to Trump for his signature. Trump signed it into law in November 2025.
The Department of Justice published over 3 million additional pages responsive to the Act. More than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images were included in that release. Combined with prior releases, the total production reached nearly 3.5 million pages.
A joint FBI-DOJ memo concluded that an “exhaustive” review of the files “revealed no incriminating ‘client list.'” The memo stated there was also “no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals” and that investigators “did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
That memo was controversial and drew criticism from both parties. But it came from the same federal law enforcement apparatus that Ritchson apparently trusts to investigate Trump.
This Is Not the First Time Ritchson Has Gone After Trump or His Christian Supporters
Ritchson has been at this for a while.
In a 2024 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Ritchson said: “Christians today have become the most vitriolic tribe. It is so antithetical to what Jesus was calling us to be and to do. Trump is a rapist and a con man, and yet the entire Christian church seems to be treat him like he’s their poster child and it’s unreal. I don’t understand it.”
Those claims against Trump are allegations that have not been established as fact in any criminal proceeding.
But notice the pattern. Ritchson wraps his political attacks in the language of Christian conscience, then turns around and lectures millions of Christian Americans about what their faith actually requires. That is a neat trick. You get to claim the moral authority of the faith while telling everyone who disagrees with you that they have betrayed it.
And the audience for Reacher — the show that made Ritchson a household name — skews heavily conservative. The series built its fan base in large part because it felt like an antidote to the preachy, politically correct content that has swamped streaming. Now the star of that show is spending his press tour calling Trump supporters spiritually compromised.
That is a choice.
Ritchson frames himself as someone who just says what everyone else is afraid to say. But there is nothing remotely brave about calling the sitting president a “b*tch” and accusing him of crimes on a podcast while promoting a movie. Every late-night host, every Hollywood trade publication, every entertainment journalist in the country will cheer that performance. The people who take real professional risks in this industry are the ones who go the other direction.
The White House response was exactly right to redirect the conversation toward the Democrats who were actually texting Epstein after his conviction. Ritchson did not mention that. He did not mention that Trump signed the transparency law that forced the files into the open. He did not mention that the files have been released in batches totaling millions of pages.
What he did was go on a podcast and scream profanity at a President he has despised since at least 2024, then dress it up as righteous outrage.
But the inconvenient reality is this: the man Ritchson is accusing of hiding the Epstein files is the same man who signed the law requiring their release. If that does not fit the narrative, that is a problem for the narrative.
Christians who support Trump are not confused or spiritually compromised. They are voters who looked at the full picture and made a decision. Ritchson does not have to agree with that decision. But the condescension — the assumption that anyone who reaches a different conclusion than he does must be either stupid or morally bankrupt — is exactly the kind of attitude that has driven millions of working Americans away from Hollywood and toward anything that feels like it was made for them rather than at them.
Sources: Mediaite; The Washington Times; Entertainment Weekly via AOL; The Hollywood Reporter; Rolling Stone; The Wrap; Fox News; NBC News; Department of Justice; Britannica