Clint Eastwood Praises Trump for Being ‘On To Something’
Source: Time
NEW YORK Clint Eastwood has stopped short of endorsing Donald Trump, but in an interview in Esquire magazine he praised the Republican presidential candidate for being on to something.
In the interview posted online Wednesday, the actor-director hailed Trump as a foe of political correctness and lamented what he called the kiss-ass generation.
Everybodys walking on eggshells, said Eastwood, 86. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things werent called racist.
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What Trump is onto is hes just saying whats on his mind. And sometimes its not so good. And sometimes its. I mean, I can understand where hes coming from, but I dont always agree with it, he said.
Read more: http://time.com/4438268/clint-eastwood-donald-trump-2016-election/?xid=homepage
I guess Trump is picking up some support.
Blue Owl
(50,482 posts)n/t
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)You beat me to it, damnit. Lol
JI7
(89,260 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,151 posts)all of the worst elements of society into one steaming pile of adoring fans.
MattP
(3,304 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)but it was just as wrong then. We have a long ways to go, but we have come along ways.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)PSPS
(13,608 posts)When Eastwood was "growing up" (he was born in 1930,) we still had legal segregation, separate water fountains, routine lynchings and the rest. The Army was segregated until Truman integrated it in 1948 (the last segregated unit was disbanded in 1954 when Eastwood was 24.) And, yes, it wasn't called being racist then, at least by most white people.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)politically correct back then to call it that. Stupid jackass. Displaying your actual rotten character will not bolster your image Clint. Sit down and go sit in that empty chair.
Journeyman
(15,037 posts)spent 10 minutes talking to a commode, pretending it's Trump -- sort of an upbeat, classier chair. Might have got one with gold fixtures to complete the scene.
rpannier
(24,333 posts)he takes the 'to' out
shenmue
(38,506 posts)orwell
(7,775 posts)...I thought your movies sucked too!
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)The rest were average at best.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Mystic River was great.. Sean Penn nailed it.. One of those movies i can watch over and over again..
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)My favorite all time films? Not in order.. Best years of our lives..on the waterfront..Man for all Seasons. Midnight Cowboy, French Connection, Kings Speech...how close are we in taste..?
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Inherit the Wind, Days of Wine and Roses, Streetcar Named Desire, Dances With Wolves, French Connection, Judgement at Nuremberg.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)simply because of its History Broadway..
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)must have been the heartthrob of the campus...
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Off stage, I was the most introverted person in the world.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)probably have some great memories
MFM008
(19,818 posts)Man for all Seasons
Mary Queen of Scots
Cromwell
Anne of 1000 days
Beckett
Loved all of them.
Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)"When I was a kid". . .76 years ago, black people couldn't vote, homosexuals were beaten for coming out, women had a million foot glass ceiling and Chinese people were still barred from entry due to the Chinese Exclusion Act. . .oh, and the only crime Japanese Americans did to get thrown into internment camps was the crime of lineage.
Fuck you, Clint! Isn't it time to force another woman in your life to get her tubes tied so you don't have a child with her so you have two with a secret mistress, like you did when you were with Sondra Locke?
AllyCat
(16,211 posts)montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)So I'll just say to the racist old bastard..... Empty Chair- Empty Head.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)C Moon
(12,219 posts)...and it makes it hard to watch his movies.
Justice
(7,188 posts)Moment. What he says about Trump is so revealing - insight into minds of a Trump supporters.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)that's all i have left to say bout Clint.
Laser102
(816 posts)he grew up, those things WERE and still ARE racist. The thing is, now decent people call you on it. Not PC. Just rejecting the bigotry. That, in itself, is what pisses these jackass bigots off.
Tempest
(14,591 posts)Tough words from a guy who spent the Korean war in the states as a swimming instructor for the Army.
Javaman
(62,532 posts)Javaman
(62,532 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)is that Donald "is on something".
lastlib
(23,266 posts)Sit down and STFU, Clint! Or better yet, got out and play with Ted Shittypants Nugent.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)by November.
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)So from now on the only qualification for Presidential candidacy will being "on to something"?
freebrew
(1,917 posts)what the hell is Clint on?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Hey assclown, that is what is so scary.