Actor Jeff Daniels thinks the Midwest is over former President Donald Trump, due to his “lack of decency.”
The “Dumb and Dumber” star said that Trump’s ongoing criminal trial is killing off the support of Midwesterners
“I know this is costing him where I live in Michigan. This is costing him votes,” he said during a Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “Deadline.”
“There’s just a lack of decency that Donald has kind of hitched his wagon to. He keeps telling us these things,” Daniels began.
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“You know, I mean, I look at the trial every day, and you watch what happens in the trial, and then you watch him talk about it like it was an amazing day. No, it wasn’t. It really wasn’t,” he added.
“Quit trying to tell us like you’re a bad salesman on my front porch selling me a vacuum cleaner that’s the greatest vacuum cleaner in your life. You’ve never seen anything like it. That’s what bad salesman do,” the “A Man In Full” star noted.
Host Nicolle Wallace agreed with the analogy, saying, “That’s what he did. He sold water, steaks, he’s selling Bibles now.”
“He’s a bad Willy Loman,” Daniels compared Trump to the lead character in Arthur Miller’s play “Death of a Salesman. “It’s the fraud. It’s the emperor has no clothes, we get that.”
The “American Rust” actor pointed out that he wasn’t referring to “people on the right,” or “Hollywood liberals.”
“It’s the Midwestern independents who are sitting there listening, going, somebody tell me the truth. Somebody treat me with an intelligence. Somebody be decent and talk to me straight because we need to change this country,” he went on.
“We need to change what’s going on because where we’re headed is, you know, I would like to think that the people in the middle are over him, and they are going to demand more of the Republican Party.”
Daniels believes that the GOP “dropped the ball,” when they embraced former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election.
“Then they doubled down and hitched their wagon to Trump,” he stated. “Then they went further down the rabbit hole with Trump, and here’s where they are.”
“I know Republicans who went with Trump to get their tax cuts and then maybe it’s DeSantis, and then it was Nikki Haley, and now they’re throwing up their hands,” the actor explained.
“What everybody wants is decency,” Daniels concluded. “They want respect again.”
Meanwhile, actor Robert De Niro offered a scathing comparison of Trump’s rise to that of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s in Germany.
“He is sick, he is genuinely a sick person that somehow has been allowed into our system,” the far-left “Taxi Driver star remarked. “I’m not calling him names, he just can’t be anywhere near the office of the presidency.”
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De Niro said that he doesn’t “understand” Trump’s appeal and doesn’t believe that the former president’s supporters “understand how dangerous it will be if he ever, God forbid, becomes president.”
“Historically, from what I see, even in Nazi Germany, they had it with Hitler. They don’t take him seriously,” he said about Trump during a Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour,”
“He looks like a clown. Acts like a clown. Mussolini. Same thing. These guys, I don’t know why they look like clowns,” De Niro lamented.
“It would be chaos beyond our imagination,” he said about Trump beating Biden in the upcoming election. “There’s no mystery about him. He’s right out front. And what he says is what it’ll be if he becomes president.”
“The guy is a monster. It’s beyond wrong,” the notorious Trump hater continued. “It’s almost like he wants to do the most horrible things he can think of to get a rise out of us. I don’t know what it is.”
De Niro claimed that Europeans who came the the United States in the wake of WWII have accused Americans of failing appreciating the country after what they experienced under the rule of dictators.
“Imagine what those people went through. I’m just starting to see it. You know, as a kid, I said ‘Hitler, it’s a nightmare that never would happen.’ But now I see that it’s possible,” he concluded.