Dumb and Dumber star tells Nicolle Wallace he hopes Trump voters suffer financial hardship
Daniels called the president a 'snake oil salesman' while speaking on MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace's podcast, 'The Best People.'
The two discussed his upcoming role as Ronald Reagan in the upcoming film 'Reykjavik' when Wallace asked him how the 40th president compares to the current administration.
Daniels went on a rant about the collapse of the Republican party and expressed his desire for Trump voters to lose their money.
'I'm just an actor, what do I know? But when Mitch [McConnell] started stacking the courts 25 years ago, I said it on your show once, they can see it coming,' Daniels said.
'The new America that is diverse and treats everyone with equality and respect and dignity, you know, kind of like Jesus did. We're ready for that. And Mitch and company could see it coming.
'They were going to be the minority, so they just started and then here we are, and now you got it, and now you're losing money. I hope you're losing tons of money, those of you who thought this would be okay.'
Wallace called out voters in Michigan who voted from Trump and said the tariffs are going to negatively impact them.
'I mean, Michigan voted for Trump this time again,' Wallace said. 'I mean, the tariffs are going to hurt your neighbors, they're going to hurt.'
Daniels agreed that everyday people will suffer because of Trump's policies and said he believes people will eventually realize the president is to blame.
'Which I think, at the end of the day, that's what's going to do it. "Wait a minute, the grocery bill is what? $180 more? I can't get that car that we have to have unless I pay another $8,000. What? Who do I blame for that? Who do I see about that?" One person,' he said.
'I think he's a snake oil salesman, and I think people will see that.'
Daniels said that Kamala Harris would have been a better choice for president because she would have lead the country like Abraham Lincoln.
'She would have been a good choice. I don't care what they say, because she would have done what Lincoln did,' he said.
'[Lincoln] surrounded himself with the people who would disagree with him, not the people who would, you know, take a knee and go, "Yeah, more tariffs, sir, more."'
Daniels returned to television in 2024, starring in the Netflix series A Man In Full as Charlie Croker, a real estate agent who's gotten used to living the high life.
Prior to that he played Chief Del Harris in the crime drama American Rust for Showtime.
It premiered back in September 2021 and ran through January of the following year, before being canceled after one season.
In recent years the actor also starred in the leading man role in the Hulu drama miniseries The Looming Tower (2018), the heralded Netflix miniseries Godless (2017) and the political drama series The Newsroom (2012-2014), which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series in 2013.
During his career in Hollywood Daniels has also star in such films as The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Something Wild (1986), Gettysburg (1993), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Speed (1994), The Hours (2002), The Squid And The Whale (2005), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Infamous (2006) Steve Jobs (2015), and The Martian (2015).
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