Kirstie Alley on Saturday took to Twitter to declare her support of President Donald Trump’s reelection, resulting in a barrage of comments from critics and upset fans.
“I’m voting for @realDonaldTrump because he’s NOT a politician,” the “Cheers” actress wrote. “I voted for him 4 years ago for this reason and shall vote for him again for this reason. He gets things done quickly and he will turn the economy around quickly. There you have it folks there you have it.”
Alley on late Saturday responded to the ordeal over her Twitter post backing Trump, expressing frustration that she wasn’t able to make public her political views without being attacked by “nasty people.”
“Don’t think I’ve ever seen so much name-calling in my life,” she wrote. “Definitely not on my site here anyway I guess I’m not allowed to have a viewpoint without being called a really nasty names by what I’m going to suppose are really nasty people.”
In a separate post, she encouraged her followers that agree with her voting choice to “stick to your guns.”
“Not always easy to be under fire but always easier than going against your own integrity. & JUST REMEMBER: if it takes thousands to try & bring u down, you must be one powerful [explicit] Love wins,” she concluded.
As of Sunday morning, Alley’s tweet has racked up over 65,500 comments and over 55,700 retweets. Alley’s name also briefly reached Twitter’s top U.S. trends early Sunday.
A supporter of Trump since 2016, Alley has been critical on Twitter of the president’s Democrat challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, saying that President Barack Obama and Biden failed to deliver what they had promised over their two terms.
