Outspoken 80s star claims 'addict' Charlie Sheen would be a BETTER president than Donald Trump
Jon Cryer is standing by his 2016 claim that Charlie Sheen, 59, would be a better president than septuagenarian Donald Trump, 78.
Cryer said that if he had to choose between his Two and a Half Men co-star and the current occupant of the White House, he'd choose Sheen to have control over the nuclear codes.
The Pretty in Pink actor, 60, made the comment when Trump was running for president the first time.
'I have been pointing out, and I have been screaming to the rooftops, that Donald Trump is the Charlie Sheen of politics.
'I have to tell you, I love Charlie Sheen, I loved working with him when he was sober, but he was, he's full of s***. He has been full of s***, he has serious addiction. His addiction is obviously serious, drugs, but Trump is just addicted to feeling important.
But now, he's explained his comment during an appearance on The MeidasTouch Podcast.
Cryer said that if he had to choose between his Two and a Half Men co-star and the current occupant of the White House, he'd choose Sheen
Sheen would say 'whatever came to the top of his head' and 'people loved it,' Cryer said in 2016. 'And they loved it even more when he said horrible things.'
'To be clear, as many issues as Charlie faces, I do think he'd be a better president' than Trump, Cryer said on the MeidasTouch podcast Wednesday.
'What I was pointing out was that, at the time when I made that comment, Charlie was still just going off and saying whatever stupid tiger blood comment he was making,' Cryer explained.
'Trump has always been comfortable saying whatever stupid thing he said because most people sort of wrote him off as harmless and didn't hold him responsible for those things.'
And it was Trump's harmlessness at the time that prompted the comparison Cryer made between Sheen and Trump.
However, nine years later, he has a new spin on it.
The current president's 'allure to the people who like him is that he just says whatever stupid thing he's thinking. They say, "Well, that's him being authentic."
'But he's always been like that old guy at the end of the bar who thinks he knows how the world works, but he's really kind of a loser.'
Cyer continued: 'He'd still be a better president than Trump,' the actor said, slightly amending his earlier comments.
'I don't know that it's fair to completely lump the two of them together,' he added during Wednesday's podcast.
In January, Cryer managed to shock Bill Maher with his liberal rhetoric about the so-called 'disgusting' reason Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump.
The Two and a Half Man actor joined Maher's Club Random podcast where he claimed Trump won the election because Republicans 'hate Black women and trans people.'
The HBO host - who recently unloaded on liberals and Democrats in a high-profile interview -initially gave his prognosis on why Democrats lost.
'I warned everybody about Trump, and then I warned them that I warned them about what would get him reelected, which was stupid wokeness, which is what got him reelected,' Maher said.
Cryer interjected, suggesting it was a lot of things and that 'wokeness' was only 'maybe part of it.'
After Maher responded by suggesting there was polling to prove his point. Cryer argued the election result was due to inflation, which he said 'Americans hate.'
The comic acknowledged that inflation 'certainly was part of it' when Cryer unleashed on him.
'They hate inflation. They hate riots and they hate Black women. And they hate trans people,' Cryer said.
Maher, aghast, said: 'God, Jon, we're not going to-' when Cryer interrupted him, saying that Republicans 'spent hundreds of millions of dollars' advertising against those issues.
Cryer persisted, saying those hundreds of millions of dollars went to 'demonizing trans people and that's disgusting.'
Maher had enough, saying: 'Yeah. We shouldn't talk politics.'
The actor was in agreement there, saying: 'Okay, we shouldn't. I mean, great. I don't, we don't have to.'
Maher then suggested he would like to 'deprogram' both people on the right and far left, suggesting a new showed called 'Deprogramming Duckie' in reference to Cryer's character in Pretty in Pink.
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