“Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Cheryl Hines is being dragged by online trolls after her husband Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped his bid for the White House and endorsed Donald Trump for president.
After RFK Jr. bowed out of the race, the actress took to social media to “extend a sincere, deeply heartfelt thank you to every person who has worked so tirelessly and lovingly” on her husband’s doomed independent campaign.
“I deeply respect the decision Bobby made to run on the principle of unity,” the actress continued. “Over the last year and a half, I have met some extraordinary people from all parties — Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. It’s been my experience that the vast majority of all parties are truly good people who want the best for our country and for each other.”
Social media users dragged Hines in the replies over RFK Jr.’s decision to back Trump, whom she has denounced as “ridiculous” in the past.
“I never pegged you as a Trump supporter but here we are,” tweeted Tim Fullerton. “Your legacy is on the line. If you don’t say anything, you will be remembered for supporting Trump.”
“Do you have a MAGA hat yet,” quipped A.J. Delgado.
Others went after RFK’s mental health.
“You will have to live with the ever-lasting shame of enabling your very mentally ill husband putting the future of our country at risk and now allowing him to endorse the likewise demented lunatic he was installed to help win in the first place,” one user posted.
“Mrs. Doubtfire” screenwriter Randi Mayem Singer said Hines “and her low rent Kennedy can both f–k all the way off.”
Hines has tried to distance herself from her husband’s more controversial stances, including his anti-vaccine stances and claims that COVID-19 was a genetically engineered bio-weapon that was “ethnically targeted” to spare Jews and Chinese people.
She’s also had to deal with her husband’s other bizarre controversies — including revealing that a worm had eaten part of his brain and died inside of his head and confessing to dumping a dead bear in Central Park as a prank.
The only time she’s ever publicly disagreed with her husband, however, was in 2022 after Kennedy implied that Jews had more freedoms during the Holocaust than unvaccinated Americans during the pandemic, The Daily Beast reported.
“My husband’s reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in D.C. was reprehensible and insensitive. His opinions are not a reflection of my own,” she tweeted, then deleted.
In an interview in January with the Hollywood Reporter, the actress described Trump’s rhetoric as “ridiculous and disrespectful” during his 2016 presidential campaign.
“Even when Trump was elected, I had to really have a long talk with myself because I thought, ‘I’m not going to make it through these four years [of Trump in the White House],’” she told the magazine.
Earlier this year, she told Bravo’s Andy Cohen that she and Kennedy deal with their political differences at home by talking it out.
“‘I disagree with you,” Hines said she tells him. “And then we have a conversation.”
When Kennedy was asked by Variety in January if he would consider being Donald Trump’s running mate, he responded “I don’t think that my marriage would survive it.”
“I think he’s right,” Hines added.
With speculation that Kennedy may be vying for a cabinet position in Trump’s second administration, their marriage could see some tough days ahead.
