One Of Dennis Quaid's Kids Clearly Doesn't Back His Support For Trump

Donald Trump's list of supporters in liberal-leaning Hollywood includes an actor who portrayed a president. In a May 2024 interview on "Piers Morgan Uncensored," "Reagan" star Dennis Quaid shared he would vote for the Republican candidate. "The Parent Trap" actor's decision to endorse the legally troubled former president will likely make for some uncomfortable family reunions. Dennis' look-alike son with Meg Ryan, Jack Quaid, is a staunch critic of Trump and has been for years.

But Dennis couldn't just do nothing in the face of what he sees as an assault on the U.S. judicial system. "I was ready not to vote for Trump until what I saw as, more than politics, I see a weaponization of our justice system," he told Morgan. In his view, Trump's many criminal probes constitute an attack on the Constitution. "Trump is the most investigated person probably in history of the world, and they haven't been able to really get him on anything," he argued. Dennis spoke two days too soon. 

On May 30, 2024, Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the hush-money case involving adult star Stormy Daniels. But that won't change Dennis' mind. "It doesn't [matter]," he said. But it does seem to matter to his son. Following Donald Trump's guilty verdict, Jack took to his Instagram Stories to celebrate the news by adding three thumbs-up emojis over a New York Times article. While this may be the most open Dennis has been about Trump, he and his son have previously clashed over the then-president.

Fans learned that Jack Quaid's political views differ from those of Dennis Quaid when the son and father had opposing reactions to Donald Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. In September 2020, Politico reported Dennis had been pegged to appear in a taxpayer-funded ad intended to promote the then-president's response to the health crisis. Two days after the report, Jack shared his thoughts on social media, making it known that he's one of the celebs who can't stand Trump. "Hey it's 11:24pm on a Saturday and I just thought this would be a good time to say: F**k Donald Trump," he wrote on X, previously known as Twitter.

A day earlier, Dennis denied the campaign was a Trump endorsement. "Nothing could be further from the truth," he said in an Instagram video, explaining that he wasn't paid to do the interview and that its purpose was to educate the public on the importance of following health protocols. Despite his denial, he had previously shared admiration for Trump's actions during the pandemic. "To tell you the truth, I think the president is handling it in a good way," he told the Daily Beast in April 2020, adding he was an Independent.

While Dennis has changed his tune regarding Trump, Jack has remained steady in his. Amid the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, Jack expressed his contempt for the former president. "I repeat: F**k Donald Trump. This is insane," he tweeted. Jack hasn't publicly addressed his father's political stance, but it doesn't look like father and son will give up their relationship over Trump.

Jack Quaid is carving quite a successful path in Hollywood. And he is grateful that Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid allowed him to be engrossed in his superhero obsession without trying to shape his interests. "I will thank them for that until the day I die. Now I get to actually live in these worlds, and that's just been such a joy," the "My Adventures with Superman" and "Star Trek: Lower Decks" actor told People in 2023, before his father announced his support for Donald Trump but after he had praised him for his pandemic response.

In January 2024, the father-son duo also hung out together at a Golden Globes after-party (seen above), where they looked closer than ever. Their divergent political stances have also not affected how proud Dennis is of Jack. In an October 2020 interview on "The Kelly Clarkson Show," he shared that Jack declined to be represented by his father's agent, opting to find his own instead. "Then his first movie is 'Hunger Games,'" he laughed, adding that Jack went on to star in Martin Scorsese's "Vinyl" and the Emmy winner "The Boys."

It looked like the tables had turned. "So I'm saying, like, 'Hey, how about a little help over here,'" Dennis joked. Maybe Dennis and Jack have agreed to leave politics at the door whenever they spend time together. Jack can save those convos for when he hangs out with Ryan, who supported Joe Biden in 2020.

While it seemed that the political tensions had died down between Dennis Quaid and Jack Quaid, Dennis tested their apparent truce by going to Coachella and professing his undying support for Donald Trump once again! "I'm here today to tell you that it's time to pick a side," Quaid told a crowd of Trump supporters at the rally on October 12 while sporting a MAGA '24 hat. "Are we going to be a nation that stands for the Constitution? Or for TikTok? Are we going to be a nation of law and order? Or wide open borders? Which is it? Because it's time to pick a side," he declared, per Fox News.

Alas, Dennis' speech came on the heels of his son, Jack, very clearly picking a side — the other side. "Dear lord she absolutely crushed it last night," Jack gushed in an Instagram post on September 11 following the high-profile presidential debate, during which Kamala Harris' handshake exposed Trump's debate strategy. "Very excited to support Kamala & Tim with these nerds from The Boys LIVE on 9/24 for @geeksforharris," he added, plugging Geeks and Nerds for Harris, the political organization he is working alongside in an effort to get Harris and Tim Walz elected. Something tells us that the Quaid family Thanksgiving dinner is going to be very interesting, no matter how the election shakes out.