Actor Ashton Kutcher attends the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Expo Hall on January 29, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo : Getty Images/ Alberto E. Rodriguez)
Ashton Kutcher is not going to keep mum about President Donald Trump's Muslim ban. At the 2017 Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Jan. 29, Sunday, he has spoken about what he thinks is right for the United States, especially when it has something to do with his wife Mila Kunis.
Kutcher set the tone for the event by welcoming the audience, the televiewers and all the people in the airports "that belongs in my America." After his remarkable anti-Trump remark, almost all the actors, including Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson, David Harbour and Taylor Schilling among others addressed the issue through their acceptance speeches.
Earlier that day, Kutcher criticized Trump over the president's executive order to ban travelers to the United States coming from predominantly Muslim countries such as Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. On Twitter, he wrote that Kunis came to the U.S. on a refugee visa. It was followed by the "Ranch" actor's series of anti-Trump remarks on the social media.
My wife came to this country on a refugee visa in the middle of the Cold War! My blood is boiling right now!
— ashton kutcher (@aplusk) January 29, 2017
Kutcher's wife Mila Kunis grew up in Russia. In the 1990s, at the age of seven, she immigrated to the U.S. with her family Mark and Elvira and her older brother Michael.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Kutcher's wife detailed her and her family's struggle in order to make a living when they moved to Los Angeles. During that time, her parents accepted odd jobs because their degrees were not recognized in the country. She does not know how to speak English, and everything seems like so difficult when they arrived.
The fiery remarks of Kutcher at the SAG Awards and on Twitter came after Uber Taxi, where he is an investor, was heavily criticized amidst Trump's immigration ban. Uber chief executive officer Travis Kalanick was under fire due to his connection with Trump and for disappointing a lot of Uber drivers, who are expecting him to address Trump's immigration ban, Vanity Fair reported.
Watch Kutcher's controversial opening remarks at the SAG Awards below:
