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LOS ANGELES – For the past two years, Jim Carrey has become known for his anti-Donald Trump works as well as his acting talents. And he seems to agree with that.
"Social media is a canvas for me," Carrey told the Vulture Festival in Los Angeles Sunday during a question-and-answer session with art critic Jerry Saltz. "And I think if it's used in this way to express the truth artistically, it's a beautiful thing."
The award-winning actor turned to Twitter during Trump's presidency to present his inflamed political cartoons – featuring the president and his "minions", as they are described by Carrey.
Carrey said that when he started using Twitter more politically, people tried to dissuade him. "Management, managers, and management have put a lot of pressure on me. [who] Come on, do not mess this up, he says.
He reminded them that by saying, "If you start talking politics, you will lose half of your audience." Carrey's reaction? "I say, 'lose'."
It seems that many of his fans do not care about political activism, because Carrey still has 18.1 million fans on the platform – and lines of people waiting for the Vulture festival panel .
Much of the panel involved Carrey breaking down the inspiration behind his drawings.
"Trump is a melanoma and anyone who covers it, including Sarah Sanders, is putting on makeup," Carrey said. "These people must be removed from our system because they are bad for us."
Among the "people" mentioned by Carrey, including: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Whom he describes as a "poison that we must purge from our system," and Vice President Mike Pence, who, according to Carrey, has a face that "is the face of absolute insincerity".
But not everything is a critical art.
Carrey recently pointed out Beto O'Rourke. "A star is born," he wrote in a tweet accompanying a sketch of the Democratic candidate to the US Senate, which had lost his bid to overthrow GOP Senator Ted Cruz in Texas.
At the roundtable, he said he "would like to see Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris" as a Democratic presidential candidate in 2020.
"I think she's fantastic and that's a really amazing guy."
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