Actor and comedian Seth Rogen took to Twitter Friday to tell his 3.27 million followers exactly what he thinks of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson.
He summed up his feelings about Carson, who ranks second in the Washington Examiner‘s presidential power rankings, succinctly:
On Tuesday, Rogen expressed his exasperation about Ben Carson’s recent string of controversial comments about hot topics:
Those comments include saying homosexuality is “absolutely” a choice, stating that he would not support a Muslim president, declaring after the shooting last week at Umpqua Community College in Oregon that he “would not just stand there and let [someone] shoot me” and, most recently, implying that Jews during World War II could have fought back against the Nazi regime if they were armed.
The reactions to Rogen’s Twitter comments were swift and brutal, with some Twitter users calling the “Steve Jobs” star “racist” and a “filthy bigot.”
Rogen was not the only one to strongly show their disdain for Carson this week. On Thursday, GQ ran an article entitled “F*ck Ben Carson,” which described the former neurosurgeon as someone trying to “make even sillier comments than the competition just so that his silly comments are hear.”
“You are now bearing witness to an arms race of stupid, because stupid is in such high demand from the GOP base at the present moment,” wrote GQ’s Drew Magary. “Stupid is what gets you attention, and attention is what gets you better polling numbers.”
Rogen has shown a propensity for discussing the presidential race on Twitter. On Thursday, he called Donald Trump a “lying s— pile” for misrepresenting the height of one of his hotels in Las Vegas:
