White Lotus star tears apart MAGA influencers over 'Trumpism'

Photogenic British leading man Theo James says raising a son amid the rise of the toxic manosphere is “terrifying.”

The Daily Mail reports the 40-yer-old is a dad to a four-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son, and the last thing he wants is for his children—or anybody’s—to be ‘lured’ in by bogus ideas of noxious masculinity.

“'It's a lot about deep seated insecurity, ultimately,” said James, speaking on Josh Smith's Great Chat Show podcast. “ … Men who feel they need to be performative or misogynistic, it's about them not feeling good enough essentially, but it's hidden with meaningless bravado. And then on top of that is what we've reached at the moment, this cataclysmic capitalism where you have everyone now rewarded by wealth.”

“Capitalism is the dominant force and you are celebrated, no matter what you are, if you're stinking rich and driving around in flash cars,” added James. “And that has been epitomized with Trumpism and everything that goes with that.”

“Manosphere”-style influencers make money by manipulating followers with promises of a “cheat code” to “win” at life. However, they appear to be the only ones getting rich as they cash in on paid-content and online trading schemes — many of them scams.

Louis Theroux, the reporter who helped unmask the crimes of Jimmy Savile, dropped $500 into one influencer’s investment project, only to find all but roughly $150 of it gone a few days later.

“It's terrifying having a son because people get lured into this idea very easily,' said James. “… And you don't have to be, as people like to say ‘hyperwoke,’ but it's about a base level of empathy and some semblance of morality and I think now that isn't cool, is it? It's not cool to talk about those things, it's cool to be like f—— you! I earn loads of cash, bring it on, motherf——!’”

But James himself has some empathy for the manosphere’s many young victims, pointing out the “deep emptiness” behind it.

“A lot of toxic masculinity comes down to unclear identity. [Victims] feel untethered, reduced. I think the misogyny comes from lots of successful strong women around them, they don't know how to deal with that.”