Shazam! Star Zachary Levi Endorses Donald Trump After RFK Jr. Suspends Campaign

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Shazam! Star Zachary Levi has endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump for president after his primary candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., dropped out of the race last month.

The DC actor appeared at a Donald Trump rally in Michigan on Saturday to express his support for the former president.

“I'm not going to take up too much time, but I just wanted to give you a little context about why Shazam is sitting here talking to you about these different things,” Levi said, referring to his superhero character.

“I grew up in a Christian conservative family, that was largely the path we were on. My parents were Kennedy Democrats who then turned into Reagan Republicans, and they taught me to have a healthy level of distrust of government, a healthy level of distrust of an industry run amok.

“And for a long time I thought, 'Man, I really want to find a politician who represents all the things that I want and that I want to see in a presidential candidate.' And this year I found Bobby Kennedy and I thought, 'Man, this guy is it.' He's crazy.' And in a perfect world, whatever that would be, I might have voted for Bobby. But we don't live in a perfect world. In fact, we live in a very broken country, we live in a country that has been hijacked by many people who want to tear this place far off the cliff. And we want to stop that, right?”

Levi continued, “We're here to make sure we take this country back, we're going to make it great again, we're going to make it healthy again.” And so I stand by Bobby's side, and I stand by Bobby's side Tulsi, and I stand with everyone else who stands with President Trump. Because I believe that of the two options we have, and we only have two, Donald Trump is the man who can get us there. And he will get us there because he will have the backing and the support and the wisdom and the knowledge and the fight that is there in Robert Kennedy Jr. and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.”

Kennedy suspended his campaign last month and endorsed Trump and his running mate, JD Vance.

Kennedy, who announced during his campaign that a parasitic worm had lodged in his brain and died there, wasted millions in cash to achieve his current 5 percent share of the expected statewide vote in November. Polls showed that number continuing to fall, and the rest of his own family rejected his candidacy entirely.

In January 2023, two months before the release of Shazam! Rage of the godsLevi shocked fans with his response to a tweet asking whether Covid-19 vaccine maker Pfizer was “a real danger to the world.”

“Hardcore agrees,” he wrote.

While the first Shazam! (2019) was received positively, the second being such a critical and financial bomb that the film's director, David F. Sandberg, has vowed to leave the world of superheroes behind.

Levi subsequently made a series of public statements denouncing the treatment Rage of the gods received from critics.