Actor Jeff Daniels sends 'The View' audience into hysterics with Donald Trump dig
Actor Jeff Daniels appeared on "The View" Thursday to promote his latest role in Netflix's "A Man in Full," about a 1990s real estate tycoon in Atlanta.
He explained that the character is a manly man from "back when men were men and everyone else was inferior."
"In watching this, you can't help but draw parallels to another real estate mogul, Donald Trump, who likes to stamp his name on buildings like your character and likes to inflate his wealth and has a big ego," former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said. "Did you think of him at all when playing this character?"
Daniels told the co-hosts that the character was not based on Trump, though he can see why some people think it might be.
"It's relevant," he said.
The original Tom Wolfe book bases the lead character on a few men in Atlanta at that time. Still, Daniels explained he could see a lot of similarities.
"But, yeah, that — the correlation is larger than life," said Daniels. "I'm worth zillions of dollars when you're not, and we're in a courtroom pretending we didn't have sex with a porn star."
Daniels then picked up his mug and sipped while looking over the top and shrugging. The panel of co-hosts laughed, and the audience broke into hysterics and applause.
Past conversations with MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell discussed the actor's disgust with Trump as he complained the ex-president "soiled the Oval Office."
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He had a similar interview with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, explaining to the host that the kind of Hollywood fame appears to have come to Washington.
"It's intoxicating," he said of fame. Daniels previously said he moved his family to Michigan because he never wanted to be like that. "I think, honestly, you see it with the Marjorie Taylor Greenes and the Matt Gaetzs now. They're intoxicated with their own stardom. Their own fame on the internet — on social media. Back in then though, that's what Hollywood dealt with. That was your currency, how big can you make yourself."
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