Mark Ruffalo calls Donald Trump ‘rapist’ and ‘paedophile’ on Golden Globes red carpet

Warning: This article contains discussion of rape which some readers may find distressing.

Mark Ruffalo has accused Donald Trump of being a 'paedophile' and a 'convicted rapist' as the actor hit out at the US president.

Last night (11 January) it was the Golden Globes and movie star Ruffalo was in attendance wearing a badge with the message 'Be Good' in memory of a woman who was shot dead by an ICE agent in Minneapolis while driving her car.

Speaking to USA Today on the red carpet, Ruffalo explained why he was wearing the badge and hit out at Trump with a very strong statement denouncing the man.

He said: "This is for Renee Nicole Goode, who was murdered.

"We're in the middle of a war with Venezuela that we illegally invaded. He's telling the world that international law doesn't matter to him. The only thing that matters to him is his own morality, but the guy is a convicted felon; a convicted rapist."

"He's a paedophile. He's the worst human being. If we're relying on this guy's morality for the most powerful country in the world, then we're all in a lot of trouble."

For context, in 2023 a court found that Trump had sexually abused a woman named E. Jean Carroll in a civil trial.

However, as per the Washington Post the judge in the trial, Lewis A. Kaplan, explained that the jury found Trump had 'raped' the woman 'as many people commonly understand the word'.

He said that during the trial there was 'proof convincingly established, and the jury implicitly found, that Mr. Trump deliberately and forcibly penetrated Ms. Carroll's vagina with his fingers, causing immediate pain and long lasting emotional and psychological harm'.

He said: "The finding that Ms. Carroll failed to prove that she was ‘raped’ within the meaning of the New York Penal Law does not mean that she failed to prove that Mr. Trump ‘raped’ her as many people commonly understand the word ‘rape'.

"Indeed, as the evidence at trial recounted below makes clear, the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that."

Kaplan explained that the legal definition of rape in New York was 'far narrower' than people's understanding of it, with the judge saying it required forced and non-consensual penetration with a penis.

The judge said that the American Psychological Association and the Justice Department had in 2012 expanded its definition of rape to include penetration 'with any body part or object'.

Trump has not been charged or convicted of crimes involving paedophilia.

Allegations have been levelled at him in connection with his appearances in the Epstein files, Trump insists he severed ties with Epstein before the man was convicted and has denied wrongdoing. There has been no evidence of wrongdoing by Trump in the documents that have been released.

When LADbible contacted the White House for comment they responded by directing us to a tweet from their Director of Communications Steven Cheung which read: "Poor thing Mark Ruffalo, star of She-Hulk, is one of the worst actors in the business.

"More impressively, he's an even worse human being by spewing outright lies because deep down inside, he hates himself for knowingly subjecting the public to his god awful performance."