Actor Jon Cryer said on Sunday he was proud to be part of the “resistance cringe” after he was featured in the background of a news photograph from the “No Kings” protests this weekend.
In a post on the social platform Bluesky, the “Two and a Half Men” actor highlighted the image, which was featured in a piece in The Atlantic titled “Resistance Is Cringe — But It’s Also Effective.”
The image showed a sea of people holding pro-democracy signs and American flags and surrounding a massive banner depicting a scroll with the words “We the People” in large print, followed by the Constitution’s preamble.
“So much this,” Cryer wrote in his post.
“This photo is what The Atlantic chose to illustrate resistance cringe, and I couldn’t be happier to be a part of it,” he continued.
Cryer included the original photo, along with zoomed-in versions that showcased him standing next to the massive “We the People” banner and holding an American flag. He also included another posed image of himself at the protest.
Cryer was responding to a post from Leah Greenberg, who shared The Atlantic article and wrote, “hell yeah, we’re doing hopepunk, we’re making star wars references, we’re cringemaxxing.”
“caring about stuff is so uncool that it’s cool again, get ready,” she added.
Millions of Americans gathered at No Kings demonstrations across the country on Saturday, protesting President Trump and his administration. Roughly 2,600 demonstrations took place in all 50 states, including in small towns and major cities such as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
Trump, in an interview taped ahead of the protests, rejected the idea that he was acting like a monarch, saying, “They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king,” in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”