Tim Robbins Doesn't Want To Hear Your 'Bob Roberts' Assassination Conspiracies

Human beings want to feel important. We need to know that we are a part of something bigger. It can’t be that we are simply part of a great, universal accident that resulted in life on this planet. There needs to be a reason that we are here. Some take this need and funnel it into the religion of their choice; they find purpose in a higher calling. Others spend their time sifting through the details of history-making events, assuring themselves that nothing is ever as it seems.

Conspiracy theorists will look over every event, from the mundane to the historical, with a fine-tooth comb, attempting to find inconsistencies. They insist that things are always more complicated than they are. Sometimes they are right! Not all conspiracy theories are BS. Most of them are, though. This is why Tim Robbins doesn’t want to hear anyone comparing an attempt on Donald Trump’s life to his 1992 film Bob Roberts.

Robbins plays a right-wing politician in Bob Roberts. At one point in the film, an attempt is made on his life. It turns out to be a lie. A staged event to earn him sympathy before an election. If that sounds familiar, it’s because many people took to social media to claim the same thing when Donald Trump was shot at during a rally. To be fair, Trump is known for lying. That’s his thing. But as more information has emerged, it looks likely that the attempt on his life wasn’t staged. So Tim Robbins doesn’t want to hear the comparisons anymore.

The Castle Rock star (bring back Castle Rock) took to Twitter to bemoan the comparisons to his political film. “To anyone drawing a parallel between my film Bob Roberts and the attempted assassination of Trump, let’s be clear. What happened yesterday was a real attempt on a presidential candidate’s life,” Robbins said. “Those that are denying the assassination attempt was real are truly in a deranged mindset. A human being was shot yesterday. Another killed. They may not be human beings that you agree with politically, but for shame, folks.”

Robbins signed off with a plea. “Get over your blind hatred of these people. They are fellow Americans. This collective hatred is killing our souls and consuming whatever is left of our humanity,” Robbins told his followers. I get what he’s saying. These are dangerous times. That said, people trying to make sense of an insane event are not to blame here.