Screen icon Glenn Close is calling out President Donald Trump and his administration after federal agents shot and killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti while he was filming them in Minneapolis.
“I am outraged and sickened by what is happening under the Trump regime,” the eight-time Oscar nominee said in a video posted on Instagram. “The cruelty, inhumanity and arrogance, the voracious corruption, the cowardice, the sickening hypocrisy, the blatant manipulation of facts, and now, the cold-blooded murder of American citizens.”
Close ― known for her roles in films such as “Fatal Attraction,” “The Natural,” “101 Dalmatians” and, most recently, “Wake Up Dead Man” ― said she felt “compelled” to speak out after seeing the footage from Minneapolis.
She said that under Trump, American democracy is “being systematically disemboweled and torn apart.”
But she also predicted that change is coming.
“The great American body politic is stirring, waking up, and taking in what’s going on, what the Trump regime is attempting to do to our beloved country and its citizens,” she said. “It is waking up and taking note. And mark my words: There will be hell to pay.”