Countless celebrities have spoken out about the Trump regime, underlining that they’re disgusted by their crimes and urging regular Americans to stand firm against tyranny. That said, it’s fair to say they’re generally coming at this from the standard Hollywood lib perspective where they want change, but not in a scary or violent way.
Well, it seems Breaking Bad, The Boys, and The Mandalorian Giancarlo Esposito star is just built different. He’s not about gradual incremental resistance, he’s urging Americans to actively revolt against Trump, even if it costs them their lives.
Speaking to Variety at the Sundance Film Festival, Esposito didn’t mince his words:
#GiancarloEsposito says it’s “time for a revolution” in America as Trump’s White House fuels a “feeling of civil war in the streets” with the actions of ICE agents in Minneapolis:
— Variety (@Variety) January 28, 2026
“We have to stand up to it. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s… pic.twitter.com/6lqbCo343j
This is time for a revolution. It’s time for it. And they don’t even know that’s what they’re starting. Some very rich old white men are exerting their power to suppress our own people, thus creating a feeling of civil war in the streets, preparing the haters to hate, teaching them how to shoot, they’re not even trained right, to kill.”
The revolution… will be LIVE
Without missing a beat, he continued:
“This is all preparation for an insidious problem that’s happening in our world and for me I have to speak. We will not be ICE-d out, this is not going to happen. They can’t take us all down. If the whole world showed up on Putin’s doorstep or on the Iranian’s doorstep or in Washington, they’ll kill 500 or 50 million however, but the rest of us would survive. It’s time for a revolution.”
Esposito reminded us that we each have the ability to change the world and underlined that he expects people to “show up”. He concluded:
“I’m mad as hell. And I’m not gonna take it anymore.”
Okay, Giancarlo, I guess we’ll see you on the barricades then? It should probably be underlined that any revolution in which 500 million people die isn’t ideal, but we appreciate the sentiment. And, broadly, if things in America carry on in this vein, we may fast reach a point where the people democratically vote to remove Trump and his cronies from power, and they simply don’t go.
What happens then is anyone’s guess, though in many other countries regular people have gathered en masse to storm palaces, drag out a whimpering ruling elite, and give them the ol’ Romanoff one-two-three. Obviously, we’re nowhere near that point yet, but who knows what the exciting future will bring?
