Morgan Freeman declared President Donald Trump is steering America “down a s**thole” during a fiery MSNBC appearance that stunned viewers.
The Oscar winner unloaded on “MS NOW’s The Last Word” while promoting his new miniseries and did not hold back when asked about the state of the country.
“How would you describe where we are now?” host Lawrence O’Donnell asked.
“Can I use profanity?” Freeman shot back. “You can say whatever you want,” O’Donnell replied.
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“Well, we have somebody sitting in the White House is leading us down a s**thole. I can’t personally understand how a convicted felon convicted, 34, felon, felonious is that a word, counts of wrongdoing gets to be president,” Freeman said.
“How do you do that? I don’t care. That ruling went down before they stepped into the Oval Office so it just doesn’t make sense to me.”
Freeman appeared on the network to promote “The Gray House,” a Civil War drama he produced with Kevin Costner for Amazon Prime Video.
The series follows three women who turned a Virginia Underground Railroad network into a spy operation during the Civil War. The cast includes Mary-Louise Parker, Daisy Head and Amethyst Davis.
The interview pivoted back to politics as Freeman compared the current climate to pre-World War II Germany.
“I’m constantly reminded of Germany in 1935, what was happening there, the Brownshirts, those people that are marching through, particularly Berlin and rounding up people, putting them in boxcars, sending them off. Now, this administration wants to build large detention centers and for what?” he stated.
Freeman urged young Americans to act if they fear the direction of the country.
“I don’t know what I would say to young people other than, if you are at all aware of where we’re headed, where we are right now and where we’re headed and if you don’t agree with it there was one sure way to change the direction of our country, vote,” he added.
The remarks fit a pattern of public criticism from the actor that stretches back years. At the start of Trump’s first term in 2017, Freeman told AARP The Magazine the moment felt like “jumping off a cliff.”
“As for politics today, I supported Hillary in the election, and now it feels like we are jumping off a cliff,” he said.
“We just have to find out how we land. I’m not scared, though. I’m holding out hope that Donald Trump has to be a good president. He can’t not be. What I see is a guy who will not lose.”
During the 2016 race, Freeman endorsed Hillary Clinton and dismissed questions about trust.
“Not with me, she doesn’t,” he told CNN’s Don Lemon when asked about trust issues.
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“I can’t say that she doesn’t, because all you need in some cases for people is to say it. Just put it out there and it gets legs,” he continued.
“The Clintons have been being beat down ever since way back, so she just was going along with that legacy that she’s inherited over the amount of time she’s been in politics, which is a long time.”
“I think this is just made-up stuff, just, you know, it’s political hogwash,” he added.
Freeman also narrated a 2016 campaign ad titled “All the good,” which highlighted Clinton’s early legal career.
His political activism drew attention overseas as well. In 2022, Russia barred Freeman from entering the country as part of a list of nearly 1,000 Americans.
Russian officials cited a video in which Freeman accused President Vladimir Putin of launching cyber warfare against democracies. “We have been attacked,” Freeman said in that clip. “We are at war.”
Clinton, former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris also appeared on the ban list.
Freeman later narrated a short documentary about Harris that premiered at the Democratic National Convention in 2024.
“She’s a fighter for the American people, committed to our values — our hopes — our dreams — bringing joy back across our nation. Where did this strength and passion come from in this daughter of middle-class Oakland?” Freeman asked in the film.
Harris now faces renewed questions about her political future after losing the 2024 election to Trump by roughly 2 million votes.
During a live video interview with author Sharon McMahon, Harris left the door open to another presidential run.
“Everybody here wants to know the answer. Will you run again?” McMahon asked.
“I haven’t decided,” Harris responded.
“You’re still thinking about it?” McMahon followed up. “I might,” Harris answered.
Harris also reacted to Trump’s State of the Union address, calling it “same old, same old” and accusing him of dishonesty.
“It was full of lies, and you know when he wasn’t lying, it reminded me of our kids going to show and tell at school,” she said on “The Parnas Perspective.”
“It was nothing that was true about the American people right now. So many are suffering under the weight of high prices, unaffordable healthcare, unaffordable housing, and we’ve come to expect it,” Harris continued.
“And, you know, some people have said it was really quite boring in that there was nothing very interesting about it because it was the same old, same old, the guy lying about what he intends to do, what he has done and the state of our economy and the state of the world.”
When host Aaron Parnas asked if the speech was strong, Harris replied, “Absolutely not.”
“There was entertainment value to what he did, but in terms of any substantive value to the people of America, I’d say it was lacking in every way,” she added.
At the close of the podcast, Harris acknowledged regret over her campaign.
“I have many regrets. I mean, I wrote a book about it, right? And so here, I’ll just say read the book, everybody,” she said.
“But yeah, there were so many variables at play in the election and I think for me and my state of mind, my focus is not on what could have been as much as what we need to do right now and the vision we need to have for the future of our country. That’s where my head is.”