'We Got Our Asses Kicked': Mark Ruffalo Reacts To Donald Trump's Election

"It was hard to come here, honestly," the actor, a vocal Trump critic, said at an event over the weekend.

Mark Ruffalo commiserated with attendees at the ACLU of Southern California’s Bill of Rights Awards on Sunday night, encouraging them to turn “despair” into action following Donald Trump’s decisive election victory last week.

The “Avengers” actor, a progressive activist who campaigned for Vice President Kamala Harris, told the crowd at the Beverly Hilton: “We got our asses kicked.”

“What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but sometimes you have to spend a little time in bed before it happens. It was hard to come here, honestly,” he said, according to a video shared by The Hollywood Reporter.

Ruffalo, who was among the honorees at the American Civil Liberties Union event, acknowledged “the grief and the fear” that attendees might be feeling, “because I know I am.”

“We suffered a great loss,” he said. “It’s a loss that touches deeply on so much of what we’ve worked for and we’ve hoped for and dreamed of for such a long time now.”