After a politically charged week, Michael Douglas visited Bill Maher to debate Donald Trump‘s victory.
Because the 2x Oscar winner appeared Friday on Real Time with Bill Maher, he expressed his disappointment on the end result of the 2024 presidential election, however supplied his personal private silver lining.
“The opposite factor I simply must share, after Tuesday evening, Wednesday morning, [I’m] simply so pissed at this razor-thin race,” he advised Maher. “It was gonna be so shut, with all these polls … and it’s a wipeout. I had no concept how that would occur. So, I am going down Wednesday morning to play golf simply to clear my thoughts. I am going play 9 holes, and I get a hole-in-one.”
Referencing inflation and the dying of the center class, Douglas later stated, “The actual fact now that we are able to discuss Republicans as being the occasion for the folks, and we’re this elitist occasion 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 believe he’d have one other drink,” he stated.
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 shedding re-election to President Joe Biden. The victory makes him the primary felon and oldest individual to be elected president at 78.
