Jeff Daniels Scolds Trump Voters: ‘I Hope You're Losing Tons of Money, Those of You Who Thought This Would Be OK'
'I hope you're losing tons of money, those of you who thought this would be OK,' Daniels bluntly told Trump voters. 'My question is, what are you guys going to do about it?'
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Wallace responded by saying Trump's tariffs are going to hurt Trump voters and 'your neighbors,' to which Daniels agreed and added: '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.'
'At the end of the day it would be about just the price of eggs, did it go up or down, because that's what he told me he was going to lower the price of eggs or my grocery bill,' Daniels continued about Trump, dissing the president as a 'snake oil salesman.'
Daniels endorsed Kamala Harris in last year's election and said America has 'lost decency' under Trump.
'We've lost decency, we've lost civility, we've lost respect for the rule of law — lost it,' Daniels explained. 'We have normalized verbal abuse on the internet. We've normalized bullying; much as the woke generation tried to, you know, change that, it's back… I mean, nobody has great things to say about politicians. They never have. Go back to Mark Twain. But ideally, we're supposed to elect the best of us. Not the worst of us. He's everything that's wrong with not just America but with being a human being.'
Daniels recently headlined television series 'American Rust' and 'A Man in Full.' His next movie is the political drama 'Reykjavik,' in which he's set to play Ronald Reagan opposite Jared Harris as Mikhail Gorbachev in a retelling of the 1986 Reykjavik Summit.Best of Variety
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