Actor Jeff Daniels has once more lashed out at President Donald Trump’s supporters, this time with a seven-word message.
The 70-year-old Emmy-winning actor, who on quite a few events has criticized Trump and the GOP, spoke to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace on the most recent episode of her The Finest Individuals podcast concerning the present political local weather underneath the Trump administration, together with tariffs and the state of the Republican social gathering.
“When Mitch [McConnell] began stacking the courts 25 years in the past, I stated it in your present as soon as, they will see it coming,” Daniels advised the host. “And Mitch and firm may see it coming. They had been going to be the minority, so they simply began after which right here we’re, and now you bought it.”
Issuing a pointed seven-word message to Trump supporters “who thought this may be okay,” Daniels stated: “I hope you’re dropping tons of cash.”
Wallace responded in settlement. “I imply, the tariffs are going to harm your neighbors.”
Jeff Daniels (left) stated he hopes Trump supporters are ‘dropping tons of cash’ (Getty)
Daniels additional concurred, saying: “Which I feel, on the finish of the day, that’s what’s going to do it. ‘Wait a minute, the grocery invoice is what? $180 extra? I can’t get that automobile that we’ve to have until I pay one other $8,000. What? Who do I blame for that? Who do I see about that?’ One particular person.”
When approached for remark, White Home Spokesman Kush Desai advised The Impartial: “Wow, one other washed up, out-of-touch left-wing Hollywood clown is wishing hurt on on a regular basis People as a result of they disagree along with his opinions. Sadly for Jeff and luckily for the American individuals, underneath President Trump bond and inventory markets are rallying, Joe Biden’s inflation disaster is over, and actual wages are rising.”
Elsewhere within the episode, Wallace opined that America has skilled a “loss” in decency over the need for extra reasonably priced items.
“Nicely, I feel on the finish of the day it will be about simply the value of eggs, did it go up or down, as a result of that’s what he advised me he was going to decrease the value of eggs or my grocery invoice,” The Newsroom alum replied, branding the president a “snake oil salesman.”
Daniels additionally lamented Kamala Harris’s loss within the 2024 presidential election, admitting he nonetheless thinks about her and the way “she would have been a sensible choice. I don’t care what they are saying, as a result of she would have achieved what [Abraham] Lincoln did.”
Explaining how precisely he thought the previous Vice President would have ruled like Lincoln, Daniels stated Lincoln “surrounded himself with the individuals who would disagree with him, not the individuals who would, you already know, take a knee and go, ‘Yeah, extra tariffs, sir, extra.’”
Daniels shot to fame for his main function in 1994’s cult basic comedy, Dumb and Dumber, and its 2014 sequel, Dumb and Dumber To. He’s moreover featured within the beloved household comedy Due to Winn-Dixie (2005), George Clooney’s 2005 political drama, Good Night time, and Good Luck, and 2016’s Allegiant, the ultimate movie within the Divergent dystopian trilogy.
Moreover movie, he’s additionally starred in quite a few TV exhibits, together with HBO’s The Newsroom, The Looming Tower, and Godless. His work in all three earned him a complete of 5 Emmy nominations, of which he received two. He acquired his first Emmy for Excellent Lead Actor in a Drama Sequence in 2013 for The Newsroom, and his second in 2018 for Excellent Supporting Actor in a Restricted Sequence or TV Film for Godless.
