Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | News | February 5, 2025
A few weeks back, I fired off a quick blurb in Pajiba Love about how Jesse Eisenberg is not thrilled with Mark Zuckerberg’s recent heel turn. The Facebook CEO has been shamelessly pandering to Donald Trump and the right wing douche-osphere with pleas for more “masculine energy.” Clearly, someone’s taking too many kicks to the head while in their karate era.
Anyway, turns out Eisenberg wasn’t done dragging Zuck, and he would really like to stop being associated with the guy. Unfortunately for Eisenberg, one of his most recognizable roles is The Social Network, and that’s really been biting him in the ass lately. However, he’s not taking their connection lying down.
While appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today this week, Eisenberg slammed Zuckerberg for cozying up to Trump. The actor also revealed that he has a far more personal connection to the damage that Facebook is helping the current administration cause.
“These people have billions upon billions of dollars, like more money than any human person has ever amassed and what are they doing with it?” he said.“Oh, they’re doing it to curry favour with somebody who’s preaching hate.
“That’s what I think… not as like a person who played in a movie. I think of it as somebody who is married to a woman who teaches disability justice in New York and lives for her students are going to get a little harder this year.”
As I mentioned earlier, this isn’t the first time that Eisenberg has used his press tour for A Real Pain to call out Zuck and the other tech billionaires bending over for Trump. Eisenberg dragged them just last week in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
“So when I think about people who have a lot of power and aren’t using it to help people, I’m just mystified,” Eisenberg said. “Why wouldn’t you just give away half your money to a good thing? And why are you taking off protections for marginalized people on your website? To me, that’s mystifying. But I’d be the same person who looks at the Rockefellers at the time, go, ‘Why the hell are you doing what you’re doing?’”
Ironically, Zack Snyder cast Eisenberg as Lex Luthor out of the rather prescient view that if a comic book villain did exist in modern times, he’d be a Zuckerberg-type. I’m not one to give Snyder props, but goddamn, dude. Nailed it.
