Most celebrities are about as assured on Twitter as a duck on a highway. Not Hollywood actor James Woods.
Like the characters he’s played in films including Casino, The Hard Way and Salvador, Woods takes no prisoners and doesn’t suffer fools gladly on social media.
Last month Woods, 69, swore off Twitter on censorship grounds after they suspended a host of accounts allegedly linked to the alt-right. Back then he sounded pretty definitive about quitting the social network:
Since @Twitter is now in the #censorship business, I will no longer use its service for my constitutional right to free speech. #GoodbyeAll
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) November 22, 2016
But six weeks later he’s back to tweeting up a storm because he says “silence is not in my nature”. Asked to justify his U-turn, he reminded us why he’s such a great tweeter in the first place:
.@Daniel_Kinske Well, the nice thing about actually having a mind is that you can change it. Go borrow one and see for yourself. #INSTABLOCK
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 29, 2016
In the last 48 hours Woods has swiftly returned to his favorite subjects:
The incompetency of the Obama administration:
#PoliticalCorpse #Obama We’ve suffered through eight years of this rotting administration. It’s not news to us. https://t.co/5lZpSZiswr
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 31, 2016
Jokes about the Clintons and John Kerry:
Why don’t these two spend the next eight years hanging with the Clintons on Soros’ yacht? Let the adults handle this… https://t.co/mQbs7NYlXG
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 30, 2016
The world’s most uninformed man leaving for the last time? Give him his Crackerjacks Nobel “Peace” Prize and sayonara pic.twitter.com/Ny0fExPsPf
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 28, 2016
Safe Spaces:
#SafeSpace pic.twitter.com/lyDQbXGjuK
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 30, 2016
Woods has also tweeted about the political acerbity of movie director Oliver Stone, with whom he has worked with on three films, and the deaths of Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds:
Liberal #OliverStone is one of my dearest friends and often hits it out of the park. This is one of those times…https://t.co/mPahibIE3C
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 30, 2016
Wow. Just…wow! #heartbreak pic.twitter.com/2b8kQOqP8g
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 29, 2016
One subject Woods hasn’t mentioned during his Twitter resurgence is the growing movement calling on CBS-owned book publisher Simon & Schuster to cancel Milo Yiannopoulos’s autobiography Dangerous which is ironic since the censorship of right-wing personalities was reportedly the reason he quit the social networking service.
Still, it’s good to have him back.