After a politically charged week, Michael Douglas visited Invoice Maher to debate Donald Trump‘s victory.
Because the 2x Oscar winner appeared Friday on Actual Time with Invoice Maher, he expressed his disappointment on the final result of the 2024 presidential election, however provided his personal private silver lining.
“The opposite factor I simply need to share, after Tuesday night time, Wednesday morning, [I’m] simply so pissed at this razor-thin race,” he informed Maher. “It was gonna be so shut, with all these polls … and it’s a wipeout. I had no thought how that would occur. So, I’m going down Wednesday morning to play golf simply to clear my thoughts. I’m going play 9 holes, and I get a hole-in-one.”
Referencing inflation and the demise of the center class, Douglas later mentioned, “The actual fact now that we are able to discuss Republicans as being the celebration for the individuals, and we’re this elitist celebration on the left, Democrats, is wild.”
Douglas beforehand produced and appeared on this summer time’s documentary America’s Burning, which unpacks the nation’s financial divide.
After portraying Benjamin Franklin on this 12 months’s Apple TV+ miniseries Franklin, Douglas additionally guessed how the Founding Father would have reacted to the most recent election. “Oh, I feel he’d have one other drink,” he mentioned.
Trump defeated Kamala Harris in Tuesday’s election, changing into the forty seventh president of america, after beforehand serving a time period because the forty fifth and dropping re-election to President Joe Biden. The victory makes him the primary felon and oldest individual to be elected president at 78.
