As the House of Representatives convened Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time during his term, celebrities flocked to social media to share their thoughts about the process.
The House impeached Trump for inciting an “insurrection” in last week’s attack on the Capitol, with 10 Republicans breaking from their party to join Democrats in approving the single article of impeachment.
After Wednesday's impeachment, Trump will leave power as the first president in the nation’s 245-year history to be impeached twice.
Longtime friend and Trump supporter Geraldo Rivera shared a two-minute video to Twitter where he expressed that he was forced to reevaluate his loyalty to the president and called for his impeachment.
"As often happens with me relatively late last night, I had a eureka moment that my loyalty to Donald Trump, my old friend, was misplaced when it comes to what happened last Wednesday a week ago to the Capitol," Rivera said. "I wrote: 'A loyal friend hounded without mercy by Democrats intent on destroying him day one... but then he lost the election and losing the election made Donald Trump crazy. It revealed the dysfunction in him that I refused to see."
Rivera continued noting how former President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about sexual escapades and Trump should be impeached for inciting a deadly riot.
Actor Billy Baldwin responded to Rivera’s message in a quote tweet.
“Geraldo… you’re full of (expletive),” Baldwin wrote. “Anybody in New York as far back as the early 1980s knew that Trump was a lying, thin skinned, vindictive, narcissistic, corrupt, incompetent, unqualified thief. You enabled this. You are complicit. #ImpeachTrumpAgainNOW”
Kerry Washington shared Mark Ruffalo's tweet calling for the ban of Trump on YouTube adding that we need to hold the president "accountable for spreading misinformation."
"Today feels like a good day to #RemoveTrump. Yesterday would have been better, but today will do," she tweeted separately.
Comedian Michael Ian Black tweeted, "(expletive) it. Let's go for three." "The View" co-host Meghan McCain retweeted his statement and added, "We’ll do it live!"
"I didn’t even know you could be impeached twice," tweeted Chrissy Teigen. "I thought it was like dying"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who turned 60 on Wednesday, celebrated her birthday with a nod to the impeachment.
"Hey, it’s my birthday, too!" she wrote in response to former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. "What do you think the Congress is gonna give us for our special day? Happy birthday to us!"
Mark Hamill reacted to the impeachment with a rhyme.
"When one impeachment won't suffice," he tweeted. "Damn his new crimes- impeach him twice!"
Earlier Wednesday, filmmaker Rob Reiner also called for impeachment.
“Every Republican knows the election was not stolen. Every Republican knows Trump is guilty of inciting the deadly attack on our Democracy,” he wrote. “Every Republican knows Trump is mentally unstable. Every Republican knows what must be done. Impeachment Conviction.”
Rosie O'Donnell shared one of Reiner’s tweets with the message: “impeach the psycho ❤️ #ImpeachAndConvictTrump”
Bette Midler tweeted a short letter to Trump.
"Dear Donnie, Well, the bus is coming and I believe that cute #MitchMcConnell is the one who will be throwing you under it! It’s sure to be crowded, since you have thrown an entire nation under it, but I’m sure folks will move over and make plenty of room for you, #Stinky," Midler wrote.
Contributing: Nicholas Wu, Christal Hayes, Bart Jansen, Maureen Groppe, Ledyard King, David Jackson, Charles Trepany
