Hollywood’s enduring icon, Harrison Ford—fresh off slinging his whip as Indiana Jones and dodging lasers as Han Solo—has lobbed a verbal grenade at President Donald Trump, branding him one of the most egregious criminals ever to sully the White House. In a raw, unfiltered interview with The Guardian published October 31, 2025, the 83-year-old actor didn’t mince words, excoriating Trump’s assault on climate protections as a terrifying cocktail of ignorance, greed, and deceit. “I don’t know of a greater criminal in history,” Ford declared, his voice carrying the weight of decades spent advocating for the planet. The remarks, timed just before Ford accepted the E.O. Wilson Legacy Award for Transformative Conservation Leadership at Chicago’s Field Museum, have ignited a firestorm, with MAGA loyalists branding him a “washed-up has-been” while progressives hail him as a truth-teller. As wildfires rage and floods devastate, Ford’s takedown underscores a deepening Hollywood-Trump rift, where stars like Ford aren’t just speaking out—they’re sounding the alarm for a world on the brink.

Ford’s ire boils down to Trump’s whimsy masquerading as policy. “[Trump] doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the sh*t out of me,” the actor told The Guardian, painting a portrait of a leader unmoored by facts or foresight. “The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket.” This isn’t idle chatter from a silver-screen hero; it’s a gut punch from a man who’s poured his post-retirement years into environmental crusades. Ford, vice chair of Conservation International since 1991, has narrated documentaries like Years of Living Dangerously, testified before Congress on deforestation, and even crashed his own plane in 2000 to spotlight aviation’s carbon footprint—though critics like the Daily Mail gleefully note his ownership of a gas-guzzling private jet that belched 35 metric tons of CO2 in two months back in 2022.

At the heart of Ford’s rage is Trump’s scorched-earth war on climate action, a saga that’s escalated in his second term. Since January 2025, the administration has slashed clean energy funding, greenlit “drill, baby, drill” frenzies for fossil fuels, axed over 1,000 EPA jobs (including climate scientists), and scrubbed “climate change” from federal lexicon. Trump’s October 2025 United Nations address, dismissing climate science as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” drew Ford’s sharpest barb: a “clear expression of ignorance, of hubris and purposeful subterfuge.” Ford jabbed at Trump’s turbine phobia—”he has just not seen a gold one”—a nod to the president’s gaudy aesthetic, but the subtext is corruption: Trump’s campaigns have vacuumed up $200 million from oil barons since 2016, per OpenSecrets data, paving the way for appointees like former ExxonMobil lobbyist Mike Sommers as Interior Secretary.

Ford’s warnings aren’t hypothetical; they’re etched in the scars of recent disasters. He spoke from personal hell, having evacuated his Santa Barbara ranch during the explosive Los Angeles wildfires that scorched 150,000 acres in October 2025, displacing 50,000 and killing 12. “I knew it was coming. I have been preaching this stuff for 30 years,” Ford lamented. “Everything we’ve said about climate change has come true. Why is that not sufficient that it alarms people that they change behaviors? Because of the entrenched status quo.” Globally, 2025 has been a grim ledger: record heatwaves in Europe claiming 10,000 lives, Pakistan’s floods submerging a third of the country, and U.S. hurricanes like Helene and Milton racking up $300 billion in damages. The IPCC’s latest report warns of tipping points—melting permafrost, collapsing ice sheets—unless emissions peak by 2025. Trump’s rollback of the Paris Agreement and EV mandates? Ford sees it as planetary sabotage for profit.

Yet amid the doom, Ford clings to defiance, a Han Solo swagger in his optimism. “He’s losing ground because everything he says is a lie,” he said of Trump, pointing to surging renewables: solar and wind now outpace coal in the U.S., with global clean energy investments hitting $1.8 trillion in 2024. “I’m confident we can mitigate against [climate change], that we can buy time to change behaviors, to create new technologies… We human beings are capable of change. We are incredibly adaptive, we are incredibly inventive. If we concentrate on a problem we can fix it most times.” It’s a rallying cry echoing his 2024 Kamala Harris endorsement, where he contrasted her openness with Trump’s “unquestioning loyalty” demands.

The backlash from MAGA has been swift and savage, turning Ford’s words into red-meat fodder. On X, posts like “Harrison Ford called Trump the greatest criminal in history. Now watch all the MAGA morons have a total meltdown and claim that Harrison Ford is an overrated talentless actor lmao” racked up thousands of likes, while Trump die-hards fired back: “These actors are totally sick… Harrison Ford says Trump is the greatest criminal in history. Same with DiCaprio. Sick people.” Conservative outlets like The Daily Wire mocked Ford as a “hypocrite flying private while lecturing on carbon,” amplifying his jet ownership into a gotcha. But supporters flooded timelines with clips of Ford’s Guardian interview, one viral post declaring, “RETWEET if you stand with Harrison Ford!” garnering over 1,200 retweets. Even international echoes rang out, with Spanish outlets like El País translating his fury: “No conozco a un mayor criminal en toda la historia.”

Ford’s broadside fits a pattern of Tinseltown titans turning up the heat on Trump. Robert De Niro’s profane 2024 rally rants, Mark Ruffalo’s arrest at pipeline protests, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s UN pleas have long irked the right, but Ford’s Nazi-jab nod—via Indiana Jones lore—stings extra in 2025, amid Trump’s authoritarian-leaning alliances with figures like Hungary’s Orbán. As one X user quipped, “Indiana Jones never was too fond of Nazis…” Yet Ford’s not alone in his hope: Bryan Cranston recently called Trump “dangerous and not that smart,” while Bruce Springsteen resurfaced to decry his “corruption.”

In a polarized America where climate denial fuels electoral fires, Ford’s words cut deep. Trump’s fossil-fuel fealty may pad his pockets—his net worth swelled $2.5 billion post-reelection, per Forbes—but it’s torching the future. As Ford urges, the fix lies in “political will and intellectual sophistication.” With midterms looming and disasters mounting, his call to arms feels less like Hollywood bluster and more like a script we can’t afford to ignore. The whip’s cracking—will we grab it?