Anti-Trump Actress Deletes X Account After Previously Vowing To Remain On Platform

The Hollywood backlash has been palpable in the weeks since President Donald Trump’s landslide victory over Kamala Harris.

At least a couple of stars appear to have made good on their promises to leave the United States and many more are protesting by removing their profiles from the X social media platform.

One such actress is Alyssa Milano, who staged a dramatic exit from the app last week.

As the Daily Mail reported:

A notice on Milano’s personal X account now reads that it has been deleted, while the profile for her podcast Sorry Not Sorry directs users to BlueSky.

It comes after Milano, 51, vowed in 2022 that she would not leave the Musk-owned platform, likening it to a ‘turf-war’.

Her decision to delete her account has since been mocked and criticized by X users.

‘Alyssa Milano is the latest celebrity not able to handle social media,’ one person wrote.

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‘After saying she’d never leave because ‘surrendering is pathetic’, guess she had a change of heart,’ another added.

Milano’s previous vow to remain active on X was a common topic of discussion among those who reacted to her exit:

Alyssa Milano just deleted her account. She previously said she isn't leaving X because surrendering is pathetic. pic.twitter.com/RFtXEubMy9

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 1, 2024

She was also ridiculed for her apparent ignorance about Volkswagen’s Nazi roots:

Another example or why entertainers should stick to entertaining. Alyssa Milano rips on Elon Musk, yet has no idea who started Volkswagen, and where the labor came from. She deleted her X account after that tweet.😁😁 pic.twitter.com/3XHyupGD95

— 𝕏ena J.Gill (@JaiShreeRam90) December 1, 2024

And some users pointed out that Milano was once a huge supporter of Elon Musk before the left turned against him:

Before it became trendy to hate Elon Musk, Alyssa Milano was his greatest fan. Why are people like this? pic.twitter.com/HkczFrAmFQ

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 27, 2022

About two years ago, Musk himself joined in on the effort to give Milano a history lesson, as Business Insider reported at the time:

Elon Musk pointed to Volkswagen’s Nazi links after actress Alyssa Milano said she was trading in her Tesla for a VW over “hate and white supremacy” on the platform.

In a tweet on Saturday, the “Charmed” star suggested she traded in her car because of Musk, while challenging advertisers to leave the platform.

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“I gave back my Tesla. I bought the VW ev. I love it,” Milano tweeted. “I’m not sure how advertisers can buy space on Twitter. Publicly traded company’s products being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesn’t seem to be a winning business model.”

Conservative comedians the Hodgetwins replied by pointing out that Volkswagen was “literally founded” by the Nazis, to which Musk replied with a laughing emoji and a “100” sign.

Here’s some additional coverage of the ongoing celebrity exodus from the social media platform: