The actor child of mining magnate Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest has lashed out after the re-election of Donald Trump as US president.
Sophia Forrest, who identifies as non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, shared the new Vanity Fair cover Thursday featuring Trump, 78, on their Instagram Stories with the caption “America you sick us.”
In addition to featuring Trump, the cover notes the president-elect’s legal troubles, including that he was convicted of a felony in connection with the hush-money payout to adult film star Stormy Daniels and that he still faces pending charges over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to undo. .
Sophia’s four-word spray is in stark contrast to a gushing Instagram post Sophia shared in April 2023, where they were smiling from ear to ear as they posed for a photo with ex-US President Barack Obama.
“When you meet Obama, a little piece of pepper steals the spotlight,” the caption read.
The comment was a light-hearted reference to a fashion mistake in the photo, which showed a small peppercorn on Sophia’s teeth.
Sophia’s father, the billionaire Fortescue founder, was more diplomatic when asked for his thoughts on Trump’s return as the 47th US president.
He called Trump an “economic pragmatist” when questioned by reporters after Fortescue’s annual general meeting in Perth on Wednesday, hours before TV networks predicted Trump would return to the White House.
Sophia Forrest (pictured left with their partner Zara Zoe) has criticized the Americans who voted Donald Trump back into the White House
Sophia shared a photo of Vanity Fair’s most recent cover on their Instagram, which details his legal troubles
Forrest said he believed Australia’s key iron exports were safe under Trump’s presidency because he was “very bullish on fossil fuels”, but also that the transition to renewable energy would continue.
Fortescue, under Forrest when he was CEO and now executive chairman, has set its goal to become a renewable energy powerhouse in Australia and the US, having built a green hydrogen plant in the US state of Arizona and a New York-based renewable energy plant. investment fund.
“The biggest increase in investment that the US has had has obviously been renewable energy,” he said [Donald Trump] will keep that economic engine running,” he said.
Forrest also said that the relationship between China, the US and its allies would also be stable under Trump.
“The largest trading partner the United States has ever had and will ever have is China, let’s not forget that they make each other’s bread.
“The amount of horsepower in the tank of the Chinese economy and their ability to stimulate themselves is phenomenal.”
Trump’s election victory not only catapults him back to the White House, but also grants him a reprieve from looming lawsuits and sky-high legal bills.
Special counsel Jack Smith is already in talks with Justice Department officials about finalizing the two federal cases brought against the newly elected president, NBC News and CNN reported Wednesday, just hours after Trump’s victory.
They said the move was taken in light of the Justice Department’s long-standing policy that a sitting U.S. president cannot be indicted or criminally prosecuted.
During the election campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump promised to fire Smith “within two seconds” of taking office.
A US president does not have the authority to fire a special prosecutor, but Trump could appoint an attorney general who could do so.
During the election campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump promised to fire Smith “within two seconds” of taking office
He could also have simply ordered the Justice Department to drop the charges.
Smith, who was appointed by Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s attorney general, filed two cases against Trump — for conspiring to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election and for mishandling top-secret documents after he had left the White House.
The election interference case is still ongoing in Washington, but no trial date has been set and the case is complicated by the Supreme Court’s ruling in July that a former president has broad immunity from criminal prosecution.
Trump is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding – the session of Congress convened to certify Biden’s victory, who was violently attacked by a mob on January 6, 2021 of his followers.
The Republican has also been accused of trying to disenfranchise American voters with his false claims that he won the 2020 election.
His documents case was dismissed by a federal judge in Florida, a Trump appointee, on the grounds that Smith was unlawfully appointed.