Maria Shriver is speaking out against the recent actions of President Donald Trump, specifically in regard to the controversial photo he posted following growing tensions with Pope Leo XIV.
After criticizing the pope as “weak” and “terrible” in a lengthy social media post on Sunday night, Trump shared a bizarre AI-generated photo depicting him as a Jesus-like figure, which didn’t go over well with people on both sides of the aisle — and Shriver is one of them.
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Shriver took to Instagram on Monday, April 13 to share that she was “disturbed” by the polarizing AI image of Trump, which has since been taken down from his TruthSocial page.
“I was enraged,” she said of her initial reaction to the photo, while noting that she waited a few hours before addressing the situation publicly in order to “reflect” and collect her thoughts.
Shriver, 70, then explained, “I wanted to make this video because I know many people who voted for this president and I know they didn’t vote for this…This is clearly a person who’s dangerous, unreliable.”
“Unhinged doesn’t even begin to cover it,” she added.
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“This is a plea to the people who are also in those rooms with him,” Shriver added later in the video, while imploring, “Come on. Are you not concerned about what is going on? The whole world is concerned. You’re there. You can do something to stop this.”
“Come on. We deserve so much better — and we’ve had so much better,” added Shriver, who is the niece of former president John F. Kennedy. “We’ve had democrats and republicans in this office who were mannered, who were reliable…They didn’t act like this. They didn’t behave like this.”
“We deserve so much better. Those who voted for this man and those who didn’t,” she added, before ending the video by pleading with those in power to “help us out” and “wake up.”
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